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SANTA CRUZ COUNTY CHILD CARE BUSINESS ALLIANCE

Enhancing Economic Success through Centralized Services Business Skills Training Collaborative Purchasing and More.

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How The Alliance Can Benefit your Child Care Business

Santa Cruz County Child Care Business Alliance (CCBA) uses a collaborative, cooperative approach to reduce administrative and program costs. By centralizing services, the Alliance promotes greater efficiency while recognizing child care as a vital component of a healthy local economy. By creating “economies of scale,” CCBA enables members to reduce duplication of effort, avoid needless negotiation, distribute expenses, and realize significant savings. And by speaking with one voice, the Alliance serves as a powerful advocate for all child care centers.

Members receive direct assistance in a variety of key areas, among them:

• Financial planning and cash flow
• Business communications
• Board relations
• Free collections
• Marketing
• Administrative overhead

What You Can Expect as a CCBA Member

Child care centers that are part of the Alliance receive:

• Access to bulk-purchased food and supplies, many of them sourced from local farms and merchandisers
• Two hours of expert business consulting provided by members of CCBA sponsoring organizations
• Three free workshops, one each on: (1) Board Responsibilities, (2) Budgeting and Cash Flow and (3) Parental free policies

In addition, outsourced collections agencies and other professional’s services are available on a fee-for-service basis.

CHILD CARE BUSINESS ALLIANCE
A Business Partner.
A Business Guide.
A Business Network.
A Business Resource.

The Santa Cruz County Child Care Business Alliance is designed to function as a business development service, a professional support network, an educational resource, and a bulk purchasing program.

As part of the CCBA, you can multiply your strengths by working collaboratively with other committed child care center directors as well as financial resource agencies and business development specialists in the community.

THE CCBA VISION
We believe that:

• Being part of a supportive alliance builds economic success.
• Enhancing the business of child care benefits our entire community.
• Child care business requires adequate financial resources in order to help each child develop and succeed

The start-up phase of the Child Care Business Alliance has been generously supported by the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County and the Community Advisors Network Fund, working through ChildCare Ventures.

The Concept for CCBA was developed by child care directors and other child development professionals in the Santa Cruz area, with research, business planning and initial program development provided by ChildCare Ventures.

Santa Cruz County
Child Care Business Alliance
Contact: Ellen Martha
Phone: 831- 460-2345
Fax: 831- 426-6669
E-mail: emurtha@scruzccu.org
P.O. Box 1877
Santa Cruz, CA 95061

Supporting Organizations

The Alliance is sponsored and coordinated by five partner agencies under the title of ChildCare Ventures (CCV):

Child Development Resource Center (CDRC)
Provides free child care referral services, professional development and an early education library.

Central Coast Small Business Development Center (SBCD)
Provides technical assistance to small business at no cost.

El Pajaro Community Development Corporation (CDC)
Assists micro-entrepreneurs with bilingual Spanish-English technical assistance, education and access loans.

Human Resources Agency of Santa Cruz County (HRA) is a source of child care subsides as well as loans for expanding and maintaining childcare slots.

Santa Cruz Community Ventures (SCCV) equips people to achieve lasting economic security through financial education, assets-building tools, revolving loans, and technical assistance.

MEMBERSHIP DUES

Membership dues are collected on an annual basis. We are currently offering a special that covers 15 months at the 12 month cost. We accept dues through Paypal online payments or checks sent to the address above. For online payments, select your payment based on your budget size in the sliding scale listed below and click the Paypal button.