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- January 21, 2026
NPR Kansas City: Kansas City Parents Say Child Care Made All the Difference in Their Lives. Finding It Was Not Easy.
Category: Press
- November 15, 2025
Detroit Free Press: Unlicensed Child Care Providers Fill Gap for Detroit Families Struggling to Find Care
Category: Press - Category: Stories
- February 19, 2025
Crain’s Grand Rapids Business: Grand Rapids-Based Montessori Investing $3.2M with New Location in ‘Child Care Desert’
Category: Press - December 05, 2024
Crain’s Grand Rapids Business: Developer Adds Child Care Center to Grand Rapids Project—And Eyes More Across West Michigan
Category: Press - November 25, 2024
How IFF is Helping Kids Win in Missouri by Supporting Local Solutions That Expand Access to Quality Child Care
Category: Stories
- September 25, 2024
IFF’s Continuum in Practice: Supporting Community-Driven Revitalization in Southeast Grand Rapids
Category: Stories
- July 29, 2024
Cultivating St. Louis’ Next Generation of Community Leaders at Urban Sprouts Child Development Center
Category: Stories
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- April 28, 2024
10 Years of Impact in Detroit: How Three Nonprofits Have Evolved to Strengthen Communities
Category: Stories
- April 25, 2024
Southwest Michigan’s Second Wave: Battle Creek’s Early Childhood Education Poised to Flourish — And Save a Church at the Same Time
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- November 03, 2023
WGVU’s The Shelley Irwin Show: How Uneven Access to Affordable Child Care Divides Kent County
Category: Press - October 13, 2023
WGVU: New Study Finds Demand for Early Childcare Slots in Kent County Falls Thousands Short
Category: Press - December 19, 2022
Together We Build More Vibrant, Equitable Communities
Category: Stories
- September 17, 2021
The Kresge Foundation: New, state-of-the art Marygrove Early Education Center celebrates grand opening
Category: Press - June 28, 2021
2020 Annual Report
Category: Stories
- June 14, 2021
Long-term Relationships and Trust Underpin COVID-19 Vaccination Success in Homan Square
Category: Stories
- February 01, 2021
Bridge Detroit: Cradle-to-career program at Marygrove campus serves Detroit’s littlest people
Category: Press - Category: Press
- May 27, 2020
2019 Annual Report
Category: Stories
- March 02, 2020
The Ticker: Local Child Care Study Outlines Shortcomings
Category: Press - March 02, 2020
Experienced child care provider expands to serve 6x more children on Detroit’s east side
Category: Stories
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- Category: Thought Leadership
- November 11, 2019
United Methodist Community House reimagines itself — and Grand Rapids’ Southeastern Community
Category: Stories
- September 26, 2019
Using data to drive investment and impact
Category: Thought Leadership
- September 04, 2019
Raising Quality, Promoting Equity: An Analysis of Location, Performance, and Challenges Facing Tulsa Public Schools
- September 04, 2019
Raising Quality, Promoting Equity: An Analysis of Location, Performance, and Challenges Facing Oklahoma City Public Schools
- Category: Thought Leadership
- May 06, 2019
Access and Quality for Illinois Children: Statewide Early Childhood Education Needs Assessment
Category: Stories
- April 12, 2019
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Only one in five Milwaukee families has access to licensed child care for their pre-K kids
Category: Press - April 11, 2019
IFF’s 2018 Annual Investors Report
Category: Stories
- March 12, 2019
Exploring the continuum: Why community development projects need so much more than capital
Category: Thought Leadership
- February 26, 2019
IFF CEO Joe Neri testifies at Congressional hearing on CDFI Fund
Category: Thought Leadership
- January 18, 2019
Top 10 Pieces of Advice in 2018
Category: Stories
- November 12, 2018
IFF celebrates 30 years by convening 500+ partners across the Midwest
Category: Stories
- August 07, 2018
Voices of Cody Rouge: Chris Uhl of IFF on the importance of early childhood education
Category: Press - June 26, 2018
Model D: Voices of Cody Rouge: How a local church and its partners saved a key community resource center
Category: Press - June 14, 2018
Chalkbeat: As caregivers struggle to make ends meet, 28,000 Detroit children go without care
Category: Press - April 16, 2018
From IFF CEO Joe Neri: Celebrating 30 Years of Change
Category: Stories
- February 13, 2018
Press Release: Nonprofit Lender Promotes New Systems Change Vision and Leaders in Chicago
Category: Press
- January 23, 2018
Michigan Public Radio: Early childhood education needs aren’t being met in several Grand Rapids neighborhoods
Category: Press - January 19, 2018
A System For All Children: An Early Childhood Education Needs Assessment in Grand Rapids
Category: Stories
- October 04, 2017
Can Illinois schools make the grade? IFF study on K-12 public education shines light on inequities, bright spots
