Our Model

Rebuilding communities through homes, healing, and hope.

🏡 Roofs: Renovating Homes → Family Childcare Sites

We acquire and rehabilitate blighted, underutilized homes across Philadelphia, transforming them into licensed family childcare homes. These spaces become both community anchors and income-generating assets for aspiring early educators.

• Focus on high-need zip codes with low literacy & high poverty rates
  
  

• Renovations include child-safe upgrades, licensing-compliant facilities, and warm, home-like design
  
  

• Residents have the opportunity to rent-to-own or purchase outright—creating a path to ownership and equity
  
  

From vacancy → vibrancy. 

From shelter → solution.

🌱 Roots: Training Providers & Building Food Gardens

We cultivate roots in two ways:

People:
Our comprehensive Early Childhood Provider Training Program supports underrepresented individuals—particularly women of color—on their path to becoming licensed childcare providers and small business owners.

1. • Includes business skills, curriculum training, cultural pedagogy & licensing prep
     
     

   • Ongoing coaching, mentorship & wraparound services

Land:
We convert nearby vacant lots into sustainable food hubs and community gardens—supporting food justice, hands-on learning, and neighborhood health.

1. • Garden-to-table programming in the classroom
     
     

   • Partner with local growers and food co-ops
     
     

   • Children help grow what they eat—instilling pride and healthy habits
     
     

Roots nourish families, neighborhoods, and futures.

📚 Readers: Literacy-Centered Childcare Environments

Reading is our revolution.

Every child care site is infused with culturally affirming literacy, language development, and storytelling.

• Daily read-alouds, phonemic awareness games & take-home books
  
  

• Afrocentric curricula, identity-affirming texts & language-rich spaces
  
  

• Library field trips, parent literacy workshops & book drives
  
  

We believe reading builds identity—and every child deserves to see themselves in the stories they grow up with.