Evaluation Report: What We Learned About theThriving Providers Project in New York

A strong early care and education (ECE) system is foundational to both family stability and economic growth. Yet, the sector is under significant strain: many child care providers are facing financial insecurity and emotional hardship, making it difficult to sustain their work. In direct response to these nationwide experiences, Home Grown launched the Thriving Providers […]

Evaluation Report: What We Learned About the Thriving Providers Project in Philadelphia

A strong early care and education (ECE) system is foundational to both family stability and economic growth. Yet, the sector is under significant strain: many child care providers are facing financial insecurity and emotional hardship, making it difficult to sustain their work. In direct response to these nationwide experiences, Home Grown launched the Thriving Providers […]

Abundancia y Soluciones Políticas Intersectoriales

Autora: Alexandra R. Patterson En nuestra labor en Home Grown, buscamos constantemente oportunidades para aprender de otras disciplinas mientras colaboramos con líderes del sector de cuidado infantil en entornos domésticos (HBCC, por sus siglas en inglés) para impulsar soluciones políticas que ayuden a construir un sistema de cuidado infantil más inclusivo; un sistema que valore […]

Abundance and Cross-Sector Policy Solutions

Author: Alexandra R. Patterson In our work at Home Grown, we regularly seek opportunities to learn from other disciplines as we partner with home-based child care (HBCC) leaders to advance policy solutions that build a more inclusive child care system that values and supports HBCC as a quality option for families and children. So often, […]

What the Data Show: Direct Cash Transfers and the Home-Based Child Care Workforce

Author: Erica Vansteenis, Stanford Center on Early Childhood Home Grown launched the Thriving Providers Project (TPP) in response to the stark realities facing home-based child care (HBCC) providers, who are central to how families across the United States access child care. HBCC providers operate under conditions of persistent financial instability: income that fluctuates with enrollment, […]

Early Childhood: A Newsletter from The Hechinger Report

“In the last half of 2025, Gertrudis Espinal watched as, one by one, children left the child care program she runs out of her home in the Bronx. The city had run out of voucher money that her families needed to pay for care, and by February, she only had seven children enrolled – half […]

Apoyando a las personas cuidadoras que sostienen a nuestras comunidades

Visión y Compromiso, en colaboración con Home Grown y First 5 LA, lanzó a principios de 2025 la primera demostración en la Costa Oeste del proyecto Thriving Providers Project (TPP), que entrega transferencias directas de efectivo a las personas cuidadoras familiar, amistad y vecino (FFN, Family, Friend and Neighbor en inglés). Este año, en apoyo directo a las comunidades afectadas por los incendios de enero del 2025, TPP anunció la Cohorte II con un total de 25 cuidadoras FFN.