New Findings: Direct Cash Transfers Strengthen Philadelphia Home-Based Child Care
Early results from Philadelphia’s Thriving Providers Project show that regular, unconditional cash support is helping home-based child care providers better manage income fluctuations, reduce material hardship, and feel more confident about staying in the field. The program’s ease, reliability, and positive impact point to its promise as a model for supporting essential caregivers.
Thriving Providers Project in New York City | Midpoint Report
The Thriving Providers Project’s mid-point evaluation in NYC shows that direct cash transfers are helping home-based child care providers reduce financial stress, pay down debt, and stay in the field. Providers report more stable incomes, fewer hardships, and stronger connections to supportive networks—ultimately benefitting the children and families they serve.
Leveraging State and Federal Benefits and Programs to Fill the Gaps
Public benefit access and use is a critical issue for the early childhood workforce. The new report from Stanford’s Center on Early Childhood & Home Grown shares insights on what we’ve learned so far about evaluation participants’ experiences accessing benefits.
Thriving Providers Project: Strengthening Child Care Amid Federal Policy Threats
The Thriving Providers Project (TPP) pilot program was designed to demonstrate how direct cash transfers can impact the economic stability and emotional well-being of home-based child care (HBCC) providers — ultimately strengthening their ability to deliver quality care. To date, TPP data has empowered pilot sites to collaborate with local policymakers on significant reforms aimed […]
What we’ve learned about direct cash transfers in New York and Philadelphia after six months
In this update, we share what we’ve learned so far about providers’ experiences with the Thriving Providers Project (TPP) in New York and Philadelphia. We share early findings from the first six months of data collected from these sites between May and December 2024. These data are from a range of voices: the majority of […]
What we’ve learned about direct cash transfers in Colorado (Report)
Child care providers are integral to family well-being and the health of the economy, yet the child care sector is in crisis. A major contributor to this crisis is the lack of economic stability for providers. National data from the Stanford Center on Early Childhood’s RAPID Survey Project show that many providers have difficulty meeting […]
TPP Data Update: Philadelphia and New York City
For the data corner in this quarter’s newsletter, we share early findings from the first few months of data collected from the Thriving Providers Project (TPP) replication sites in New York City and Philadelphia, which were added in 2024. First, to provide some context, the 36 TPP participants in our evaluation sample in Philadelphia identify […]
Direct Cash Payments to Child Care Providers Help Them Keep Their Doors Open, So Philadelphia Kids Get Care, and Families Can Go to Work
Author: Anne Vilen Child care businesses, especially the licensed family child care homes that hundreds of Philadelphia families depend on for regular child care so that they can go to work, operate on the thinnest of financial margins. From month to month, after the expenses of mortgage or rent, insurance, utilities, quality learning materials, cleaning […]
Key Learnings From the First Complete TPP Implementation: Announcing the 18-Month Colorado TPP Report (English)
By: Lamisa Mustafa, MPP and Callie Silver, PhD, Stanford Center on Early Childhood Two years ago, Home Grown launched the Thriving Providers Project (TPP) to uplift home-based child care (HBCC) providers and engender policy shifts around stable, increased compensation for this essential, yet underpaid workforce. We are thrilled that the first pilot of this direct […]
Thriving Providers Project Final 18-Month Evaluation Report
The Thriving Providers Project (TPP) 18-month Evaluation Report produced in collaboration with Stanford Center on Early Childhood (SCEC), Impact Charitable and Home Grown, provides information on the background and origin of TPP, the initiative’s Theory of Impact, methodology including research design and participant details, quantitative and qualitative findings organized by the Theory of Impact for […]
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