A care economy demanding change.
Cooperative home care is delivering change in the face of a broken care economy by elevating caregivers and empowering quality care.
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Lack of Investment
in Care
Low wages and poor conditions for caregivers work against the quality of care and create long wait lists.
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Caregivers Ignored
Even though they work on the front lines, the insights and concerns of caregivers are ignored.
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Profit at the Expense of Workers
The business of care prioritizes profit over investing in caregivers, with extractive practices and poor job quality.
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Bottom Line Pressures
Microscopic, public reimbursement rates shrink the margin for job quality investments and crowd out quality care.
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Ideally...
Solutions would address long-term systemic problems and impact the day to day realities of giving and receiving care.
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Powering caregivers with the tools to thrive.
Providing women, minority, and immigrant caregiver owners access to scalable operating systems, coaching, and support designed to build success.
Tailored Support
Support designed for caregiver-owned home care companies.
Economies of Scale
Support sustainable businesses and elevated care through resource pooling and shared purchasing.
Enterprise Approaches
Give home care cooperatives the resources, systems, and training needed to compete and improve worker outcomes and care.
Elevate Leaders
Maintain core values powered by organic leadership and skills.
From Our Donors
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For the last 8 years, CDF and its partners have developed sustainable home care cooperatives through quality technical assistance, rigorous research, and data-driven analysis. While we have provided the framework for the development and sharing of resources, it is really the co-op members that implement the work – responding to customer and business realities, creating policies that center workers, and advocating for the needs of caregivers and the people they serve. We look forward to the day where worker ownership transforms the home care field for all workers, and we believe that Elevate Cooperative can be the vehicle for transformative change.
Fueling Caregiver-Owned Home Care
How we're unlocking a new future for home care.
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Home Care Co-op Specific Support + Training
Full range of consultative, training, operational systems, and support for start-up to scale-up home care cooperatives.
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Integrated Enterprise-Level Operations
Tools and systems that allow home care cooperatives to operate with the same business efficiencies as large home care enterprises.
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Experienced Leadership with Expert Support
Guidance provided by experienced leaders and expert home care business developers.
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Multilingual, Multicultural Support
Access to multi-lingual, multi-cultural systems and support for a broad range of cultures and language speakers.
