Industry: Childcare
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Number of employees: 50
Became employee owned: 1988
Articles
- Next City – Worker Co-ops Catch on in Philadelphia (2018)
- Generocity – Short film on Philly co-ops (2016)
- Germantown Beat – Inside a four-star day-care center in Germantown (2014)
- GEO – Storytelling for Childcare Advocacy: Childspace Alive and Well After 21 Years (2009)
- Planners Network – Organizing A Childcare Union In Philadelphia (1998)
- Village Life – Jobs in Day Care Help Moms off Welfare (1997)
Research
- Raising Our Future Together: How Cooperatives Can Create Better, More Affordable Childcare in NYC (2017)
- Dastur – Understanding Worker-Owned Cooperatives (2012)
- UWCC – Exploring Cooperatives: Economic Democracy and Community Development in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (2012)
- Canadian Cooperative Association – Child Care Co-operatives (2007)
- Gunn – Third-sector Development: Making Up for the Market (2004)
- Kreiner – Sectoral Strategies in CED: Critical factors in the Success of CHCA & Childspace (2003)
- Ms Foundation – Enhancing Employment Opportunities for Women (2003)
- Logue and Yates – The Real World of Employee Ownership (2001)
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