2023 Planning For a Year of Success

Donna Dailey December 29, 2022

For many childcare owners, 2022 has been another year of high stress, labor shortages, and frustration. How will 2023 be different?

In most states, childcare business owners will continue to receive Stabilization Grants for all or part of 2023. The goal of the stabilization grants is to make individual childcare businesses and the industry as a whole—more stable. Unfortunately, I am concerned that the way some owners have used the funds and some of the state requirements for allocation of grant fund utilization will lead to a more financially unstable childcare business after the grant funds are gone.

If you want to learn more about using grant funds to make your childcare business more stable, please view the “Stabilization Grants” presentation on our website: www.solutions4childcare.com.

In this presentation and companion workbook, I share some great information and strategies for how you can use the stabilization grant funds to make your childcare business stronger, not weaker, how you can use the grant funds to improve your childcare business now and prepare for your childcare business’s financial stability after the grant funds are depleted. https://www.solutions4childcare.com/index/docs/child-care-specialization-grants-course/

Enjoy the presentation. If you would like assistance with your financial analysis and planning, please give me a call. I offer specialized childcare financial management consulting for individual center owners and multiple-unit operators.

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Donna Dailey

Donna has been involved in commercial real estate, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and business valuations for 25 plus years. Donna started DAILEY Enterprises, Inc. in 1995 to provide Business Brokerage, Valuation, and Consulting services to small to medium-sized companies in North Carolina. Donna has assisted with hundreds of business transfers, valuations, business enhancements, and business consulting projects. Ms. Dailey is an experienced executive with in-depth training and knowledge in all aspects of small to medium-sized businesses, including finance, management, operations, sales, marketing, and accounting. In 2007 Donna founded Solutions 4 Child Care and ChildCareOwner in 2010, to focus on helping child care center owners with “The Business Side of Child Care.” M.Ed. Master in Education LREB Licensed Real Estate Broker – NC, SC SBA Senior Business Analyst BEC Business Enhancement Consultant SBA – Member of the Society of Business Analyst CVA – Certified Value Analyst CVBBA – Carolinas Virginia Business Brokers Association Founding Member CVBBA Past President and Board of Directors CCIM – Certified Commercial Investment Member (Member and Candidate) NACVA – National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts Founder and President of School of Business Brokerage Solutions 4 Child Care – Phone: 336-543-0640

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Since 2019, Child Care Aware® of America (CCAoA) has partnered with Nemours Children’s Health to create geographic information system (GIS) technology story maps to visualize and better understand child care program participation in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). Story maps combine both maps and text to help users interpret what they see. They can help us visualize current challenges and opportunities in a state’s early care and education systems.
This blog recaps our work to develop the story maps and explores how states, including Pennsylvania and Vermont, are using these tools to make data-informed, strategic decisions to promote CACFP and increase provider participation.

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