Program Overview
TOP CHALLENGES ADDRESSED BY THIS PROGRAM
- Growing your childcare business and its profitability
- Employee acquisition, engagement and retention
- The shortfall in the actual cost of care and current revenues
- Forecasting budgets and cash flow based on your vision
TOP BENEFITS
- Take advantage of a new operating environment in the early learning childcare industry
- Define your growth strategy to maximize potential revenue
- Create a future forward business model that works
- Innovate to capture new opportunities and grow profits
PROGRAM FORMAT
4 (6) hour sessions – one Saturday a month. For CEUs you must complete the curriculum course work in all four modules, attend all sessions, complete all surveys, post-tests and submit a business plan by a prescribed deadline.
CEUs
Upon completion of course work, attendance at entire series, completion of post-tests and submission of business plan.
All course offerings in which CEUs are awarded are presented in partnership with FACCM, an Accredited IACET Provider.
PARTICIPATION IN MASTER CLASS
Become an effective social entrepreneur expressing yourself through your unique business model in the industry of early learning childcare.
*Sessions are highly interactive with thought provoking conversation for solution driven outcomes.
PEER MENTORSHIP
Once selected you will be partnered with a “peer mentor” that is a graduate of the BLI program. Peer mentors work with you throughout the course to support and advise. Helping you navigate the program and further network BLI resources.
ABOUT BLI
A consortium of business owners, operators and advocates who come together as a community in the field of early learning childcare. We work as co-creators of endless possibilities for social enterprises to operate robust vibrant businesses, setting the highest standards for performance outcomes in early learning education and care.