Tompkins County, New York

The Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce, along with the Day Care and Child Development Council, took the lead in creating the Early Education Partnership. The goal of the partnership is to create a community scholarship fund for child care. The Partnership produced fact sheets rather than a full report.

• Vision and Goals
  • Tompkins County Early Education Partnership: a joint effort of the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce and Day Care and Child Development Council
  • Challenges: information sheet on the challenges facing the early care and education industry in Tompkins County, NY
  • Vision: the vision for building a community subsidy fund for child care in Tompkins County
• Economic Impact
  • "How Does Child Care Impact the Tompkins County Economy?" This fact sheet summarizes our findings. Please read this information about a change to the recommended methodology that was made after the original study was completed.
  • Estimating total revenue and workers in the sector.
  • Structure of the Child Care Sector
  • Economic Impact -- labor shortage
• Policy Uses of the Economic Development Frame
  • "New Visions for Welfare Policy". We argue here that subsidies are economic development.
  • "Fill the Gap." This describes the potential impact on the Tompkins County economy if all children eligible for subsidies were able to receive them.
• Scholarship Fund Design in Tompkins County
  • What parents pay: current funding streams for child care
  • Estimating demand for child care
  • Fund liability cost projections: estimate of the cost of meeting the child care needs of middle income families
  • Gap between the supply of child care and potential demand
  • Provider budgets and implications for fund design; estimated budgets (Monthly Budget for Group Family Childcare, Charges by Age Group for Childcare Centers in Tompkins County, and Capacity and Revenue for Childcare Providers in Tompkins County) are also available
  • Child care provider budget methodology