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Headlines such as these proclaim the current explosion in commercial enterprise. With all the attention focused on the business sector, the continuing importance of the non-profit community has become a silent part of the equation. Yet throughout the world, charitable organizations play a vital role in human endeavor.
This is particularly true in the child care arena where non-profit organizations are responsible for the preponderance of service delivery worldwide. This trend report will provide a close examination of non-profit child care in the United States and brief look at the role non profits play in various other nations.
Non Profits in the United States
Non-profit child care can trace its origins in the United States back to the 1830s when wealthy women came together to found institutions to serve "half orphans" - children of poor families who were abandoned on the streets half the day while their parents worked (Hewes, 1995). Since that time, charitable institutions have been the primary providers of center-based care in the United States.
It has only been in the last three decades that commercial providers have played a significant role in child care ...