Helping you build a successful child care business.
Child care businesses prop up our economy. You are the workforce behind the workforce. You prepare our youngest citizens to be socially adept lifelong learners.
We’re here to help you achieve your dream of child care ownership. Since the 1970s, CEI has financed or advised more than 175 child care businesses. We’ve used that experience to design the Child Care Business Lab and the Child Care Investment Fund.
Since 2020, nearly 30 Child Care Business Lab graduates have opened businesses, creating more than 580 child care spaces.
So we’re ready to help you start & grow a financially sustainable child care business.
Have you ever wanted to start a child care business & weren’t sure how?
Our Child Care Business Lab was designed for you.
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