Story Categories: Child Care

Kingfield Kinder Care

When Jackie Lobdell’s children were young, she couldn’t find daycare fitting the hours she needed. The nearby child care was…

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Taylor Tots

Miranda Taylor turned her experience as an Ed Tech III/School-Based Behavioral Health Professional into Child Care entrepreneurship - creating a…

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Bloom Child Care

Molly Miller set out in late 2019 with a vision for Bloom and worked tirelessly through a global pandemic to…

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Mis Primeros Pasos

This fall, we celebrate with Thania Centeno as she realizes her dream in starting a childcare center – Mis Primeros…

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CEI's Child Care Business Lab

Working mothers are leaving the workforce. Cynthia Murphy, Senior Program Director at CEI Workforce Solutions, saw the trend before the…

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Little Learners Homestead

Passionate about farms, food and children, Anna Wardwell, owner of Little Learners Homestead, LLC, in Hampden, Maine, had always dreamed…

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Rayitos de Sol

Children of working parents can spend up to half of their waking hours in child care. When that child’s first…

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Little Bird Child Care

In 2019, Stephanie was pregnant with her first child and knew that she wanted to return to work after the child was born, but despite searching her town…

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Children's Odyssey

Using State Historic Tax Credits, CEI provided financing to bridge remediation and renovation costs to move Children’s Odyssey to the…

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Seedlings to Sunflowers

Seedlings to Sunflowers, a start-up nonprofit childcare center in Gorham, broke ground on its new facility on Friday, November 10,…

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