Donna Dailey

CEO & Founder

Donna Dailey M.Ed., LREB, SBA, BEC, CVA – Founder & CEO of ChildCareOwner.com, has over 28 years of childcare mergers and acquisition and real estate experience. Donna has been helping people buy, sell, and improve child care businesses since 1995.

As a business analyst, Donna has helped hundreds of childcare owners improve their childcare business’s profitability, financial health, and value. 

Donna focuses on creating more ChildCareOwner.com resources and training programs that support the creation of more independent childcare business success stories. And the continued growth of the specialized childcare advisory services available through ChildCareOwner.com

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Donna Dailey

Fair Market Rent How it Affects the Value of Your Child Care Business

Every child care business operates in a facility—a building and land. Some child care owners lease the building and land from a third-party owner. The owner of the building and land, “real estate,” determines how much rent they require. This “third-party,” “arms-length” relationship often increases the likelihood that the child

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Donna Dailey

Child Care Business Break-Even Analysis

As a childcare business owner, one of the most important numbers you can understand is your childcare business’s break-even point—enrollment break-even, gross revenue break-even, and classroom break-even. The “Break-even point” refers to the amount of sales—products or services a business must sell to cover all costs. Applying this to childcare,

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Donna Dailey

Creating a Financially Healthy Child Care Business

Childcare businesses, just like people, can be described as either healthy, a little sick, anemic, or gravely ill. When sick, humans often need a consultation with a doctor, the right medicine, and often a change in diet, lifestyle, habits, or a change from things that lead to their illness. We

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Donna Dailey

Common Mistakes Child Care Business Buyers Make

In my 28 years of working in childcare business mergers and acquisitions, I have met and worked with thousands of childcare business buyers. From the individual buyer looking to purchase their own child care business – to the business development officers making acquisitions for large regional and national child care

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