08/27/2026
Child care providers are professionals.
Whether they operate a child care center or care for children in their own home, they are running businesses while doing work that carries enormous responsibility.
They navigate licensing and regulations. Manage budgets, payroll, tuition, and expenses. Communicate with families. Plan meals and activities. Maintain safe environments. Keep records. Hire and manage staff. And, at the center of all of it, they care for and support children during some of their most important years of development.
That takes skill, knowledge, judgment, and dedication.
And their work reaches far beyond the children and families they serve.
Child care is part of the infrastructure that keeps rural communities working. When families have reliable child care, parents can go to work, employers can keep employees, and local economies are stronger. When child care isn't available, the effects ripple through an entire community.
That's one reason New Growth is investing in the business side of child care.
Through the New Growth Women's Business Center, we're working directly with child care business owners to better understand their challenges, connect them with practical business resources, and help them build stronger, more sustainable businesses. Our new Child Care Business Accelerator will take that work even further with individualized guidance designed around the realities of running a child care business.
Because supporting child care professionals isn't only an investment in child care. It's an investment in families, businesses, our workforce, and the future of our rural communities.
You take your child care business seriously. So do we.
Learn more about the Child Care Business Accelerator and sign up to participate:
https://www.newgrowthmo.org/post/child-care-business-accelerator
There’s still a spot available in our first group. Sign up by September 1!
