Announcing BizNest!

Children’s Council is excited to launch BizNest! BizNest serves as the umbrella for all our training, resources and services for established, new and prospective early educators.

Since our founding in the mid 1970’s, we have been recognized as a leading child care organization not only in the Bay Area but in the State. Now, with BizNest we can reach more providers in more California counties.

As part of the BizNest launch, we are proud to announce a partnership with our founding funders, The James Irvine Foundation, Blue Shield of California Foundation and Bainum Family Foundation, to launch a holistic study on the impacts of Children’s Council’s BizNest entrepreneurship training offered out of our Family Child Care Business Incubator. We know we are helping launch successful businesses, and we want to know how that impacts the children, families and neighborhoods they anchor. 

Together with business owners, we are helping San Francisco’s child care sector thrive. 

BizNest includes our highly impactful Child Care Business Incubator, which offers the following FREE resources to prospective child care providers: 

• A tailored, multi-lingual business start-up course that covers the basics of starting a family child care business 
• Advice and tools to navigate the licensing process 
• Coaching on how to access government funds to care for children who qualify for subsidized care  
• And more resources and services

Our Child Care Business Incubator has successfully trained and launched 50+ new child care businesses across 12 California counties since 2019, serving nearly 500 women micro-entrepreneurs who are black, indigenous or people of color (BIPOC).  

Now our FREE BizNest multi-lingual curriculum is available to all supportive organizations in California to launch and grow new child care businesses in their community! 

Special thanks to our BizNest Founding Funders:

Blue Shield of California Foundation

Bainum Family Foundation