Best Practices for Business Capacity Building in the New York City Childcare Sector

"The Capstone team was engaged to further the Low Income Investment Fund's (LIIF) goals to provide capacity building services to community based childcare providers serving low­income children in New York City. The team's work was per­formed in the context of a larger system revamping being planned by New York City's Administration for Children's Services (ACS). Partnering with LIIF, the Capstone team's main objective was to create a capacity building plan to model technical assistance and training for child­care providers in New York City. To that end, a need was noted to survey best practices nationally, inventory NYC's exist­ing services, dimension the need, and propose effective models for short­and long­term implementation, including public and private sector roles and cost analysis. The team's tasks centered on researching and cataloging childcare sec­tor business capacity building systems across the country, researching the current child care system in New York City, identifying NYC organizations and individuals that provide sector specific business/ capacity building assistance, and identifying recommendations for implementation of a business model for New York City. "