First Children's Finance
First Children’s Finance provides loans and business-development assistance to high-quality child care businesses serving low- and moderate-income families.
Close Gaps by 5 (formerly known as the MELF)
Close Gaps By 5 is a lean nonprofit organization led by Minnesota business and community leaders championing the use of early education to narrow Minnesota’s worst-in-the-nation achievement gaps.
Minnesota Child Care Association
Provides statewide representation for child care centers on issues affecting the industry and gives them a professional organization for accessing the regulatory agencies.