Child care generates more than $152 billion in annual economic activity and supports over 2.2 million jobs, yet it operates far below potential, with more than half of U.S. families living in child care deserts.
Home-based providers—caring for 6.4 million children nationwide—are essential to family and community stability, but rising housing costs, restrictive zoning, and limited access to capital threaten both their small businesses and families’ access to care.
AFN’s new brief, Supporting the Homes that Support the Economy, explores housing-based solutions to strengthen home-based child care and the crucial role philanthropy can play in driving them.
Join us on November 3rd for a webinar that debuts the high-level insights from the brief, featuring funders, intermediaries, and a provider leader on how philanthropy and government can co-invest in housing stability, capital access, and supportive policy reforms. Panelists will share promising models—from tailored homeownership programs and social impact real estate funds to zoning reforms and provider advocacy networks—that are helping stabilize providers’ housing and small businesses, expand supply, and strengthen the child care infrastructure communities and economies depend on.
Funders will leave with actionable strategies to advance economic mobility, support home-based child care ecosystems, and build more equitable, resilient communities.
Speakers
Sirina Jimenez, Mission Driven Finance
Natalie Renew, Home Grown
Bevin Parker-Cerkez, LISC
Shelly Masur, Low Income Investment Fund
Benu Chhabra, Family Child Care Provider
Accessibility Statement
Captioning will be provided. If you have any other accessibility requests or questions, please email Charie Williams at charie@assetfunders.org.