Anchor Institutions
Support and strengthen your community through a family-focused care platform.
Carefully is a platform for strengthening communities.
Unlike other childcare benefits, Carefully supports community-based care that is inclusive of all types of organizations and their members, from students to workers, volunteers, patients, teachers, refugees, and more.
By simplifying the organization, planning, and coordination of cooperative care, Carefully gives community members the time and energy to focus, be more productive, more connected, and build a stronger, more resilient and empowered community overall.
A simple way to make a difference
Providing childcare options to your local community helps build a foundation for success. Anchor institutions are in a unique position to help people in their communities who have been historically disadvantaged and are working against the odds to achieve economic mobility.
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Building a reliable network for support
We work with businesses who care about strengthening their employees’ lives beyond the work day. Carefully helps translate that caring spirit into tangible options for affordable care, proving employees with a platform for creating babysitting coops, care circles, childcare swaps, and family-friendly events.
Unions and cooperatives
Expanding support to parents as an added benefit for membership, unlocking community-based care.
Universities and hospitals
Providing students, faculty, staff, and patients with better options for navigating their unique needs and schedules.
Humanitarian organizations
Helping those in need find new communities who are there to help them when they need it most.
Community centers
Bringing best-in-class technology and personalized support to help families who are the most in need find accessible, equitable options for childcare.
Faith-based organizations
Creating reliable networks for sharing care to help families restore the balance they need, ignited by the trust, connections, and spirit of giving that already exist within their religious communities.
Civic organizations and services
Partnering with aligned organizations and agencies (libraries, parks department, housing authorities, children and foster services, small business services) to identify ways we can uniquely support families in need through the Carefully platform.
“In the private sector, we see employers starting to look at the whole person and work-life needs as essential to employee success, but colleges and universities have not generally been thinking about their student body in this way…We are a little slow to respond to the idea that nontraditional students are the new norm.”
Anchor institutions are vital assets to their neighborhoods, towns, cities and regions. Increasingly, anchor institutions are expected to do more in their communities, and become active civic participants in improving health and well-being in their surroundings.
Ensuring student parents have access to affordable, quality, child care — which one study found more than tripled their likelihood of on-time graduation — would improve postsecondary success and economic security across generations.
