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CARE Fund Insights

The CARE Fund fosters the flow of knowledge, information, and experience across its network of grantees and funders. We invite you to join us in our learning journey.

CARE Fund Executive Director Anna Wadia discusses the risk of private equity in the child care industry at a conference co-hosted by the National Women’s Law Center, Community Change, and Open Markets Institute. Read their accompanying report funded by the CARE Fund.

This CARE Fund webinar discusses how making the tax code more progressive can raise billions, and how philanthropy can support equitable revenue streams for robust caregiving systems and policies.

This webinar, hosted by The Century Foundation and Caring Across Generations in partnership with the CARE Fund, brings together care policy experts to explore how pandemic-relief investments supported states to innovate and take action and discuss what more must be done at both the state and federal level.

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The CARE Fund and the Foundation for Child Development convened 40 advocates, labor and parent organizers, parent leaders, and others in Washington, DC, to discuss lessons from the unprecedented yet temporary pandemic-era success in reducing child poverty and more. Several themes and strategies emerged from the discussion.

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This CARE Fund webinar provides an overview of how private equity firms are investing in different parts of the care sector, and the potentially detrimental impacts their approach can have on workers and families.

In these briefs, the CARE Fund and The Century Foundation examine lessons for equitable implementation from the historic American Rescue Plan investments across the care infrastructure: child care, paid leave, and home and community-based services.

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To build a robust care infrastructure, we need sustainable and equitable revenue sources and financing models. In June 2022, the CARE Fund held a learning meeting for funders on Financing Caregiving Systems & Policies.

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Care featured more prominently in this election than ever before. Politicians responded to a groundswell of demand from voters for child care, home care, paid leave and decent care jobs. Where care was on the ballot, care won. Unfortunately, this happened in an election where vitriolic rhetoric also reinforced the legacies of racism, sexism, anti-LGBTQ+…
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Longtime advocates for care workers and families say there’s momentum for their cause, thanks to decades of grassroots organizing, a pandemic that brought the care crisis to everyone’s doorstep, and an infusion of philanthropic support.
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CARE Fund Executive Director Anna Wadia writes for Ms. Magazine about how care has become a top concern among voters and a unifier across gender, race and party identification.
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This article features CARE Fund Partner, Pivotal Ventures, and its recently published report, “The Data-driven Case for Care.” The article mentions the CARE Fund’s work to expand philanthropic support for the care movement.
Download: Pivotal Ventures Makes the Case for Why Care Can’t Wait _ Inside Philanthropy
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Select Resources from the Field

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This primer by the National Women’s Law Center explains how using federal tax dollars to strengthen and grow our care systems would go a long way toward ensuring that our loved ones receive the care that they need.
Download: Why-the-2025-Tax-Fight-Matters-for-Care-Investments
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The Century Foundation and Caring Across Generations grade all 50 states and DC on pivotal policies, such as paid leave, child care, aging and disability care, and access to quality jobs for care workers.
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All in one place, MITCoLab’s Resource Hub provides impactful data, helpful reports, state-specific information and innovative solutions for LTSS, including equitable financing models and worker-owned co-op solutions.
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Deploying narrative-change strategies across care issues will help create the conditions for cultural and policy progress. Coming together for the first time across issues and constituencies, with support from the CARE Fund, six philanthropy support organizations developed a national landscape analysis of care economy narrative-change efforts.
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the corresponding economic crisis undermined the health and economic well-being of American workers.  In March 2021, President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to help stimulate the economy and deliver immediate relief to workers. The CARE Fund supported several organizations providing technical assistance to administrators.
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This primer, developed by AFN and EOF, elevates the intersectional and intergenerational issues associated with the care economy and the challenges facing low-income women of color who make up the care workforce.
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These select resources have been located or developed in partnership with our network. If you have any questions or suggestions for resources to include on this page, please contact us at hello@carefund.org.

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Members of the media interested in the CARE Fund’s work should reach out to Christina Fialho at cfialho@carefund.org.