What is a Shared Services Alliance?

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By: Opportunities Exchange, Louise Stoney June 1, 2021

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The business model for small child care programs is fundamentally flawed, but banding together may help providers operate more efficiently and reach the scale they need to weather financial storms. Shared Services is one approach that is working. The Opportunities Exchange website, dedicated to helping the early childhood field achieve financial sustainability and strong child outcomes through shared services, offers many resources about shared services.

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Blog September 28, 2023

On September 30, 2023, federal funding made available to child care providers during the pandemic will expire. In this blog, providers discuss the impact.

Home-Based Child Care: Embedding Wellness in HBCC Systems through Strengthening HBCC Networks: An Evidence-Based Framework for High Quality (Benchmarks)

Archived Webinar September 21, 2023

This recording and slide deck are from the September 19, 2023 Home-Based Child Care Webinar.

Workforce Compensation

Report August 29, 2023

A robust early childhood care and education workforce is at the heart of any solution to stabilize the child care sector, and adequate compensation is pivotal to that end. That reality comes through in the PDG B-5 grant applications; many states demonstrate a keen focus on supporting workforce compensation. This brief explores and synthesizes the strategies to increase compensation that states proposed in their PDG B-5 grant applications.