Child Care – Page 2 – Northwest Minnesota Foundation

Northwest Minnesota Foundation pushes more than $780,000 into the region in first quarter of FY24

More than $780,000 was loaned or granted out into the region from July through September through the Northwest Minnesota Foundation.

Family, Friends, and Neighbors Child Care event held in Park Rapids

Often used to illustrate the many hands who help lift a child through their development, this phrase speaks to the need for many people to come together to provide a safe and healthy environment for children, where children are given the security they need to develop and flourish, where children’s voices matter.

Step Up child care workshops continue to grow

Five years after launching the Step Up workshops to child care professionals, educators continue to see familiar faces.

Finding balance

Reflections on journey from providing in-home child care to running 2 child care centers.

Great Start for All Minnesota Children Task Force Concludes its Work

For the last three years, Missy Okeson has served on the Great Start for All Minnesota Children Task Force, working with legislators and state officials to develop a state plan to provide Minnesota families access to high-quality child care and education.

MAHUBE-OTWA making new connections with Hub grant funding

All it took was an email written in Ojibwe.

‘Little ones all excited to say Ojibwe words’

A grant awarded to the White Earth Early Childhood Program helped restore the use of the Ojibwe language in their classrooms and homes of young families.

‘Working together to achieve a goal’

STRATEGIC COLLABORATION Multiple organizations come together to assist Fadumo Ahmed in the opening of Gold Childcare Center, a culturally supportive child care center planned for East Grand Forks. A culturally supportive child care center is planned for East Grand Forks. Fadumo Ahmed, who has provided in-home child care for several years in East Grand Forks, …