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From employer-supported centers to broader community partnerships, businesses are looking for ways to address childcare as a workforce issue. For many Colorado families, access to reliable, affordable childcare affects whether parents can work, how many hours they can work and how long they stay with an employer. That reality is prompting more employers to look beyond traditional workplace benefits and consider how they can help address childcare challenges facing their workforce.

How the Investing in America Child Care Partnership is Supporting Child Care as an Economic Development Imperative  In June 2024, several national foundations and nonprofit partners launched the Investing in America Child Care Partnership, an initiative to leverage public infrastructure and economic development funding alongside employer partnerships to strengthen and sustain early childhood systems in local communities. This partnership was formed as a coordinated effort to leverage federal infrastructure funding to strengthen local early care and education systems and increase access to high-quality, affordable childcare in communities that house America’s growing infrastructure workforce.