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From YouTube: Board Wrap-Up: Childcare Scholarships
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The Board accepted a $200,000 donation to provide child care scholarships to low-income families.
B
You
do
and
it's
through
the
Community
Foundation,
so
the
Arlington
few
Community
Foundation's
set
up
an
initiative
trying
to
get
scholarships
to
I
think
it's
a
thousand
children
from
low-income
families
to
see
that
they
have
high
quality
childcare
here
in
Arlington,
as
anyone
with
children
watching
this
will
know
if
you
are
trying
to
find
childcare.
This
is
like
the
most
expensive
place
for
childcare
in
the
entire
region
and
stressful.
Finding.
A
B
C
B
C
There's
we've
seen
so
much
in
terms
of
accessibility
for
childcare
across
the
county.
Additional
slots
coming
in
and
there's
been
graduating,
but
there's
also
affordability
exactly,
and
that
is
really
what
this
grant
starts
down
the
road
to
do,
and
we
recognize
through
it
that
we
need
we're
going
to
need
private
funding
in
addition
to
the
county
working
on
this
issue,
but
the
necessary
foundation
s
Lee
company
contributed
through
the
Arlington
Community
Foundation.
As
you
mentioned,
the
thousand
children
we're
just
starting
on
that
on
that
road,
but
I
do
think.
C
You
and
Katie
speak
really
compellingly
about
how
this
is
a
key
component
of
just
how
real
the
American
Dream
is
for
for
families-
and
this
is
it
goes
across
incomes
and
across
the
county.
It's
a
basic
middle-class.
Can
you
afford
to
to
raise
a
family
and
the
cost
of
child
care?
There
is
not
an
insignificant
number
of
parents
who
stay
home
because
the
relative
working
is
only
just
a
sliver
better
than
than
the
cost
of
child
care.
C
So
thrilled
about
this
and
really
the
work
that
Katie
crystal
is
as
lead
has
been
great,
but
the
whole
board
moved
before
I
joined
an
hour
continuing
that
work
and
we
need
to
pull
more
and
more
people
in
to
this
affordability
challenge,
because
it's
relevant
to
those
who
are
in
the
middle
class
and
working
to
get
there.
So.
A
B
I
sue
our
Department
of
Human
Services,
so
they
manage
it.
This
is
really
a
partner,
multi
level
partnership
and
it's
great
that
the
the
so
there's
the
shared
prosperity
initiative
that
the
Community
Foundation
is
doing
and
they
are
hoping
for
a
lot
of
corporate
donations
and
we're
really
pleased
Esley
is
the
first
they
stepped
up
from
eighty
two.
B
Hundred
thousand
dollars-
and
that's
great-
but
you
know
we
want
other
folks
to
step
up
too
because,
frankly,
more
and
more
as
companies
come
here
for
our
innovation
economy
and
the
talent
we
have
in
our
workforce,
a
lot
of
that
talent
have
families
have
kids
and
a
lot
of
that
talent.
You
got
to
see
if
you
decide
that
one
parent
can't
afford
to
were
either
mentioning
they
have
to
stay
home.
That's
fifty
percent
of
the
workforce
not
available
to
them.
B
So
it's
really
in
all
of
the
corporation's
interest
here,
it's
in
all
of
our
interests
to
be
providing
low-cost,
affordable,
yeah
quality
childcare.
So
that's
great
we're
hoping
more
will
step
up.
We're
really
pleased
that
they
did
that
and
you
do
have
to
be,
for
this
particular
scholarship
that
the
Community
Foundation
is
is
doing
and
we're
running
through
Department
Human
Services.
You
have
to
be
at
or
below
30%
of
the
ami
here
the
average
mean
median
income
in
Arlington,
so
it's
not
for
everybody,
and
then
they
have
to
meet
certain
requirements
and
we're
just
trying.