Women’s Community Revitalization Project (WCRP) is a community development corporation that provides a number of programs to revitalize communities. One of these programs offers training and technical assistance and project management services to child care providers (center-based programs, family child care homes, and group family child care homes) and other organizations that wish to develop facilities to serve children from low-income families in areas where there is a lack of child care services. “Facilities development” includes acquisition, renovation, construction, or improvement of facilities.

WCRP provides technical assistance to child care providers in specific areas of facilities development, such as conducting a market feasibility study, designing viable programs, obtaining site control, evaluating environmental hazards, developing a financing package, soliciting bids and evaluating architects and/or contractors, developing collaboratives that support child care, and construction management. WCRP’s training in facilities development is designed for boards of directors, Head Start Policy Councils, management teams and others from nonprofit organizations that serve low-income families and who are interested in developing child care facilities.

To complement its training and technical assistance activities, WCRP has established a loan fund to assist organizations pay for early predevelopment costs. Services are available to organizations in southeastern Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and its surrounding counties).