Resource Categories
Boost Your Competitive Edge: Actions for a Healthy Productive Workforce
Childcare Business Resources
Blueprint for Success
Description: Manual for planning a high quality early childhood program.
College of Business Administration Business Development Center — UNO free business resource — Service Centers Locations
Description: They offer excellent help in developing business plans and financing strategies, including applications for low/no-interest loans and grants for certain qualifying businesses. They also help with market analyses, commercial, professional, and environmental regulatory compliance, etc. They should be a resource that any child care center reaches out to for free advice and business help.
Primary Contact:
Administrative Office, 200 Mammel Hall 67th and Pine Streets, Omaha, NE 68182
Phone: 402.554.2521
Email: nbdc@unomaha.edu
NE Business Development Center - Service Centers website
Nebraska Business Development Center website
Cost of Quality Calculator and Messaging Toolkit
Description: Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes (CEELO) has developed the Cost of Preschool Quality & Revenue (CPQ&R) calculator, a free Excel-based tool, to help users determine costs and funding sources related to implementing high-quality preschool programs.
CELLO Cost of Preschool Quality and Revenue Calculator
DHHS Market Rate Survey
Description: The MRS is a federal requirement of the Child Care and Development Block Grant, as well as being a part of Nebraska's State Statute. The MRS collects data every two years from licensed child care providers statewide. Child care subsidy rates are set in accordance to results of the survey and in combination with provider type (Family Child Care Home I/II, Child Care Center) and their geological location (Urban or Rural) and accreditation. Accredited providers will receive rates at the 75th percentile or the urban rate for their provider type.
2017 Child Care Market Rate Survey
DHHS Subsidy Contract
Description: The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services contracts with licensed child care centers and family child care homes to provide care to families receiving child care subsidy. This subsidy pays for or assists in payment for the cost of care. Providers establish a contract with DHHS and then are able to bill for children served through the contract. Rates are based on a biannual statewide market rate survey.
Primary Contact: Nicole Vint
Email: nicole.vint@nebraska.gov
Child Care Subsidy Information for Parents website
Nebraska Advantage Act
Description: Nebraska’s comprehensive economic development incentive package for expanding or relocating businesses.
Nebraska Advantage Package website
Nebraska Child and Adult Food program Reimbursement Rates
Nebraska Early Childhood Collaborative
Description: The Nebraska Early Childhood Collaborative (NECC) was established in 2014 as a strategic initiative of the Buffett Early Childhood Fund. NECC is a consortium of leading early childhood organizations, and we operate within a lean but robust shared services organizational structure that facilitates knowledge sharing and cost reduction. The Collaborative’s early childhood organizational partners include Educare Omaha, Educare Lincoln, and Omaha Early Learning Centers.
Primary Contact: Shannon Cotsoradis
Email: scotsoradis@nebraskaearly.org
Phone: 402-301-3025
Qualification/Services: Exchange for materials, access to templates and samples of P&P, handbooks, forms, and HR and financial oversight
Nebraska Early Childhood Collaborative website
Nebraska Early Childhood Exchange
Description: NECC extends its reach into the broader child care community through the Nebraska Early Childhood Exchange, a resource website built specifically for Nebraska’s child care providers. The Exchange helps to promote best practices, offer cost savings, and supply providers with countless administrative and classroom resources.
Nebraska Early Childhood Exchange website
Step Up To Quality
Description: Step Up to Quality Child Care (SUTQ) has five levels, with licensing as the first, and a hybrid rating structure. Tiered reimbursement will be available at steps three through five; incentive bonuses are provided at steps two through five.
Primary Contact: Nebraska Department of Education (NDE)
SUTQ Technical Assistance email: www.education.ne.gov/StepUpToQuality
SUTQ link to YouTube how to set up an account: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHpHN-Igbeg
Tax Credit for Startup Businesses
Description: Components Incorporated into the Nebraska Advantage Package
