Introducing SVCF’s New Director of Housing Kiyomi Yamamoto Meet Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s new Director of Housing! Kiyomi Yamamoto is currently focused on affordable housing issues because it is unconscionable to accept unstable and uninhabitable living conditions as viable options for our neighbors, especially when we can all play a Read more…
Build Up Family Child Care Grants Build Up for San Mateo County’s Children, with support from Gilead Sciences Inc., is excited to announce our Family Child Care (FCC) Grants awarding up to $5,000 per home financing projects designed to increase capacity from a small FCC license to large FCC license Read more…
View the Full Report: Building Bridges: Creating Strong Partnerships for Early Childhood Education https://youtu.be/jtKtcpmIOyUhttps://youtu.be/LB9EJDarbE4 Build Up for San Mateo County’s Children is thrilled to share a new report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation using original research on the messages that compel business leaders to action. This report provides Read more…
This month, Washington DC’s Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) released their Early-Learning-Facilities-Policy-Framework. Their framework outlines the following four principles to guide early learning and child care facilities investments throughout the country: “Early learning programs are critical to the health and success of local communities and the national economy. Every child deserves equal access Read more…
San Mateo County has a shortfall of 11,000 child care and preschool spaces, directly impacting the county’s business, education, transportation and housing sectors. By 2025, this shortage is expected to rise to 14,000. The good news is that cities are powerful agents of change and can make a significant contribution Read more…
Financing Strategies for New Facilities Building upon work completed during 2016 as part of a greater child care needs assessment for San Mateo County, Brion Economics evaluated different financing strategies that can be utilized to help fund the development of early learning facilities with the goal of alleviating the current Read more…