Child Care Cooperative Toolkit

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Child care cooperatives offer communities the ability to pool resources, expertise, and energy. With several different models drawing on different community resources and strengths, many communities find that the cooperative route works best for them.

This toolkit, built and hosted by a Zero to Five Montana partner, the Montana Cooperative Development Center, walks through what to expect during the four phases of cooperative development with several resources for each. It also includes a brief introduction to cooperatives and the seven principles of cooperatives. At the end, an appendix includes additional information as well as case studies from forming child care cooperatives.

Visit their site and resources here:

Child Care Cooperative Toolkit -Final.pdf (wsimg.com)

https://mcdc.coop/mcdc-resources

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CHILD CARE BUSINESS ADVISOR

An Advisor’s Guide to Business Partnerships in the Childcare Industry

Information about the 45F Employer-Provided Child Care Tax Credit

pre-venture

Toolkit: Your Guide for School-Based Child Care

Business Update: Federal Corporate Transparency Act and BOI reporting

Schedule a Business Consultation

with Senior Child Care Business Advisor Jason Nitschke

Jason joined Zero to Five Montana in 2022 as Senior Child Care Business Advisor after eight years in economic development as Vice President with the Great Falls Development Authority (GFDA) and Regional Director of the Great Falls area Small Business Development Center (SBDC).

He coaches, counsels, advises, and trains starting, growing, expanding, and stabilizing child care businesses with the business elements of running a licensed child care program in Montana.

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with Community Navigator Shelby Whelan

Shelby is a people-person who is excited to continue her community development work as the Community Navigator for Montana Child Care Business Connect. She helped develop and implement community-led projects related to children and families, facilitated a handful of early childhood coalitions and committees, received the 2022 Moving Mountains award, and became invested in the need for early childhood systems change in Montana.

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Montana Child Care Business Connect (MCCBC) supports the start, stability, viability, and expansion of high-quality, early child care businesses in Montana and helps cultivate child care business stability and sustainability.