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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.

Understanding Private Equity & Corporate Interest in Care

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.

Investing in the Care Economy Works: Learnings from the American Rescue Plan

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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Financing Caregiving Systems & Policies

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.

Overcoming the Systemic Devaluing of Women’s Work

At a conference co-hosted by the U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau and The Worker Institute @ ILR-Cornell, CARE Fund Executive Director Anna Wadia discussed the imperative that care programs funded by the American Rescue Plan are implemented equitably. Her remarks were featured in Early Learning Nation.

Why Care is Essential

Grantee partners, donors contributing to the fund, and other philanthropic professionals with an interest in the care agenda joined a dynamic learning session held by the CARE Fund in June 2021.

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Fair play: Why centering gender is the only way to end inequality

Centering gender means building blueprints to fix broken economic systems, and in the United States, economic and gender justice is inextricably tied to the care economy.
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A Look Inside How the CARE Fund is Changing the Way Society Views Care

In an update to a 2021 article about the CARE Fund’s impact, Inside Philanthropy interviewed CARE Fund Executive Director Anna Wadia about the Fund’s progress and future.
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Why Funders Are Coming Together to Invest in Care

Eight leading philanthropic organizations announced the formation of the Care for All with Respect and Equity (CARE) Fund, a $50 million, multi-year investment in bold, transformational change to build comprehensive care infrastructure that works for everyone.
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Select Resources from the Field

The Story of Care: A Snapshot of the Care Narrative Change Landscape

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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American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Equitable Implementation CARE Fund Grantee Publications

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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New York Times: Every 8 Seconds, an American turns 65. How do we care for everyone?

In this episode, podcast host Ezra Klein interviews Ai-Jen Poo, co-founder of the National Domestic Workers Alliance about what is needed to fix America’s patchwork systems of care.
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Why Care About Care? Our Economy Depends on It.

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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Building Our Care Infrastructure for Equity, Economic Recovery and Beyond

This report, by Caring Across Generations and the National Domestic Workers Alliance, outlines how a fully-financed care infrastructure across the lifespan is critical to a racially just and equitable economic recovery, and is also key to building a pathway forward that is sustainable for all families.
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Download: Building Our Care Infrastructure
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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.

For the Media

Media email contact:

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