Rebuilding a Child Care Center

Realize your dream of owning, expanding or rebuilding a child care center and help restore child care to New Orleans.

“Working with Rebuild Child Care has been a positive and professional experience at each and every step. I felt that this agency saw the great work we were doing and rewarded us for trying to better the lives of the children we serve. It is reassuring to know there are agencies such as Rebuild Child Care out there to help small businesses and better the community! “ - Paula Polito, Bear-y Cherry Tree

The child care dilemma:

Finding quality, affordable and convenient child care is not easy for any working parent. In the Greater New Orleans area, the difficulty of this task has been magnified by the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
In the post-Katrina world, our city’s dedicated and hard-working citizens strive every day to make this city stronger and better. Unfortunately, hundreds of child care facilities were damaged during the storm and nearly a third remain closed, creating a child care crisis for many working families . Many families are even more dependent on center-based care because the network of friends, family, and child care they relied on before the storm may not have returned.

The child care solution:

The Greater New Orleans Rebuild Child Care Collaborative is a group of non-profits that are partnering to help rebuild childcare facilities in the Greater New Orleans area. To date, the GNORCCC has raised millions of dollars to help child care providers repair and rebuild Class A licensed child care centers. Grants from Rebuild Child Care assist owners of Class A child care centers to rebuild, establish a new center, or expand an open center in an underserved area of need.