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Thriving Providers Project: Exit Resources for Cohort #1

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The Access Program

Accessing Child Care Expansion and Sustainability Supports (ACCESS) offers resources to STAR 1 and 2 providers in Philadelphia to invest in their facilities and move up in the STARS system. https://www.reinvestment.com/grants/accessing-child-care-expansion-and-sustainability-supports-access/

Coaching to Success

The Coaching to Success (C2S) program at Reinvestment Fund offers assistance to all Philadelphia-based child care providers regardless of size, structure, and quality level. This program seeks to help support child care programs who are seeking to navigate and sustain the delicate ECE business model. https://www.reinvestment.com/grants/coaching-to-success/

The Fund for Quality

The Fund for Quality (FFQ) is a partnership between Reinvestment Fund and Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC), with funding from the William Penn Foundation, and Vanguard Strong Start for Kids Program. Through the provision of business planning and facilities-related financing, FFQ supports high-quality early care and education providers with expanding their services to reach more low-income families. Learn more.

Philly ECE Loan Fund

The Philadelphia Early Childhood Education Loan Fund offers flexible and low-interest loans to child care providers in Philadelphia. Learn more.

The Seed Fund

The Sustainable Economic Empowerment and Development (SEED) grant funded by the Vanguard Strong Start for Kids Program is designed to empower Family and Group child care owners/operators in Philadelphia through financial training, coaching, and retirement planning. By partnering with trusted organizations like Quality Influential Professions (QIP) and Latinos Educando Juntos (LEJ), the program equips participants with tools to build wealth and long-term financial stability.

The SEED grant is a pilot program set to launch in early 2026. It will provide tailored financial education, one-on-one coaching, and seed funding to help participants establish retirement accounts and make informed financial decisions for both their businesses and personal lives.

If you are a home-based child care provider in Philadelphia, please stay tuned for application details coming soon!

Sharon Mullings-Neilson
ECE Program Manager
Sharon.neilson@reinvestment.com

ParentChild+

The mission of ParentChild+ is to ensure that all children regardless of their race, socio-economic status, or zip code have equal possibilities from the start. We work with families, home-based child care providers and communities to support not only early literacy and school readiness, but early opportunities. Home-based child care partnerships are available in Philadelphia. Learn more. 

Contact: info@parentchildplus.org

Early Intervention

Early Intervention has two separate programs:

  • Early Intervention (EI): EI is a program available at no cost, regardless of family income, to provide services to children who have or are at risk of developmental delays. The program is designed to be a collaboration between families and the specialists helping their children. Specialists coach parents and caregivers to help their children in their natural routines, including in early care and education settings.

    Make a referral to Early Intervention here.
  • Intervention Advocacy: The Thriving PA Coalition is working to ensure each and every child in PA with developmental delays is able to access quality, timely Infant and Toddler EI services through a strong and supportive workforce. Join us as we advocate for each and every infant and toddler with developmental delays to have access to quality, timely Early Intervention services!

    Sign up to receive newsletters and important updates about EI work at www.earlylearningpa.org

Philadelphia Rapid Response Team (RRT)

RRT strives to provide quality supports to child care programs that are experiencing consistent problematic behaviors in the classroom. We offer developmentally appropriate strategies to curb behaviors and prevent suspension and expulsion in a short-term time period.

Eligibility:

This program is intended for licensed Family Child Care providers in Philadelphia who are:

  • Working a minimum of 20 hours a week
  • Caring for at least 1 child under the age of 5

Priority Consideration will go to applicants who are:

  • STAR 1/2
  • Serving subsidized families
  • *Operating in area of High-Poverty
  • *Operating in region identified as having “shortage in Total Childcare Supply”

*https://www.reinvestment.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/RF_WPF_childcare_summary_2023_final_update.pdf

How to Apply

We are currently not accepting new submissions for the Thriving Providers Project.