$2 million grant brings metro nonprofit more opportunities to help families with child care

Written By QCC

“We have families come to us all the time, feeling like they have no place to go. They want to work, they want to contribute to their families, and yet they can’t afford the cost of care,” Quality Care for Children CEO Ellyn Cochran said.

In 2025, QCC kept almost 500 children in daycare and supported nearly 300 programs with extra revenue.

Now that the organization has received the $2 million grant from the United Way of Atlanta and the Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation, the organization said it is able to give out more of what they call “boost scholarships.”

Families that QCC works with in Clayton County and the City of Atlanta choose daycare, and pay 7% of their income, and the scholarship covers the rest.

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For more than 40 years, Quality Care for Children's mission has been to ensure that Georgia’s infants and young children are nurtured and educated so that every child can reach their full potential by helping:

- child care programs provide nutritious meals and educational care to young children so they are ready for success in school,

- parents access quality child care so that they can attend college or succeed in the workplace.

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