Service Areas
Child Care Expertise with National Reach
First Children’s Finance works across all 50 states, partnering with child care businesses, communities, Tribal Nations, and systems to strengthen child care supply and sustainability.
Our state offices in Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, and Vermont provide deeper, place-based services, while our national teams bring FCF expertise to partners and projects nationwide.
The FCF Loan Fund provides financing to eligible child care businesses in nine states: Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wisconsin.
Our State Offices
Local expertise. Connected by one national organization.
Our state teams build long-term relationships with child care businesses, communities, and partners while tailoring FCF’s expertise to the needs of each state.
Minnesota
Where FCF began—and where we continue to innovate.
Our oldest state office has served Minnesota since 1991. Today, team members work across the state, supporting child care businesses and partnering with communities to address local child care needs.
Michigan
Business support for child care entrepreneurs across Michigan.
What began in Detroit in 2008 now reaches child care businesses statewide. Our Michigan team helps family child care and center-based entrepreneurs strengthen their businesses and prepare for their next stage of growth.
Iowa
Building stronger businesses and stronger local child care markets.
Our Iowa team supports child care entrepreneurs with business and financial expertise, coaching, consultation, and access to capital.
Vermont
Strengthening Vermont’s child care businesses and the environment around them.
FCF works with child care businesses and partners across Vermont to strengthen business sustainability, expand access to resources and capital, and support a stronger child care landscape.
Oregon
Business expertise and capital for Oregon child care entrepreneurs.
Our Oregon team helps home- and center-based child care businesses build financial and business strength through consultation, professional development, technical assistance, and access to capital.
Financing Across Nine States
Capital Designed for Child Care
The First Children’s Finance Loan Fund is a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) dedicated exclusively to child care. We provide financing to eligible child care businesses in:
Iowa · Michigan · Minnesota · Missouri · North Dakota · Oregon · South Dakota · Vermont · Wisconsin
Beyond Our State Offices
Our Work Doesn’t Stop at State Lines.
FCF brings child care business, community, and systems expertise to partners across all 50 states through national initiatives, consulting, research and analysis, and customized projects.
Whether the challenge is strengthening individual businesses, growing community child care supply, or informing larger systems and investment strategies, our national teams help partners move from challenge to action.