The Child Care Coordinating Council is a non-profit member of the Child Care Resource and Referral (R&R) located in every county in California. Over the last three decades, our services have evolved from a grassroots effort to help parents find child care, to a well-developed system that supports parents, providers, and local communities in finding, planning for, and providing affordable, quality child care.

San Mateo County is the "workingest" County in California - with 63% of all children living with two parents in the work force or a single parent who works. This makes quality child care integral to the children and families who live here. San Mateo County's child care industry ($149 million annual receipts; 5,000 local jobs) provides an economic and social infrastructure that is critical to the County's overall economic vitality and quality of life.

The Council focuses on fostering the growth and development of children, promoting the professional development of early education professionals, supporting families in their parenting roles, and helping employers and the wider community acknowledge the importance of children to society, and child care as a quality of life and infrastructure issue.

The Council supports two facilities funds to support the child care infrastructure in the county:

Peninsula Quality Fund: Available to licensed, non-profit centers, the fund combines grants for facilities improvements with business plan development to ensure long-term viability of each participating program. Since 2002, centers have received over $170,000 to support facility projects valued at 2-4x our monetary contribution.

Child Care Facilities Expansion Fund: Designed to facilitate new licensed child care slots in San Mateo County by providing technical assistance and funding to new and expanding centers and family child care homes. Seeded with $1,000,000, the fund’s goal is to create about 750 new spaces over the next 3 years. Funding is available to finance start-up costs, equipment, furnishings and leverages additional grant funding and in-kind contributions (land, building shells, and services).