Low-Cost Employee Perks That Help You Keep Great Childcare Staff You can absolutely boost staff retention with low-cost or even no-cost perks that feel genuinely valuable to your team. Let’s walk through ideas that work well in early childhood settings without blowing your budget. Start With “Human” Benefits, Not Expensive Ones Most early educators stay for relationships, respect, and stability, read more.

One of our advisory clients was confident they were collecting $187,000 per month. When we reconciled their enrollment report to actual bank deposits, they were only bringing in $157,000. That is a $30,000 monthly gap — $360,000 a year — hiding in plain sight. Another center we work with showed $150,000 in calculated monthly revenue but only $100,000 actually landing read more.

Head Start Partnership Opportunities: Boosting Enrollment and Funding in Your Childcare Center Head Start and Early Head Start are designed to work through community partnerships with child care programs, schools, health centers, and other local organizations. These partnerships give families access to more comprehensive services (health, family support, screenings), while your center benefits from increased demand and stronger outcomes. For read more.

EIDL Collections Are Coming: What Every Childcare Center Owner Needs to Know If you took an EIDL loan to keep your childcare center alive during COVID, you are not alone. Thousands of daycare, preschool, and early childhood education businesses relied on Economic Injury Disaster Loans as a lifeline when enrollment plummeted and shutdowns left them with no revenue. But now, read more.

S-Corp for Daycare Business: LLC, or Sole Proprietor? How to Choose in 2026 If you run a childcare center, choosing the right S-Corp for daycare business tax structure may be the single most impactful financial decision you make this year. Tax season just wrapped up — and for many daycare owners, that filing was more painful than it needed to read more.

Childcare business financial management looks very different when you own multiple locations. Most multi-location owners review one combined P&L — and that habit quietly hides a serious problem. Specifically, one profitable center may be funding the losses of another. This post breaks down why per-center profitability analysis is essential for sound childcare business financial management, and which three metrics to read more.

What one owner’s child care business purchase taught him about the due diligence you can’t afford to skip. You found the perfect child care center. The numbers look good. The location is right. The teachers want to stay. You close the deal on a Friday, plan to reopen Monday, and then — you can’t open. That’s exactly what happened to read more.

A guide for child care center owners and operators exploring Applied Behavior Analysis as a service expansion and revenue diversification strategy. The child care industry faces a persistent challenge: operating on thin margins while demand for specialized services continues to grow. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) offers child care centers a powerful opportunity to address both problems at once—expanding the families read more.