Technical assistance. Photo: Caroline Silber for Strategies for Children
The coronavirus has forced early education and care providers to protect themselves – from both the virus and from the virus-wracked economy.
To help providers with these financial challenges, we are co-sponsoring a technical assistance webinar tomorrow at 2 p.m. The full details are:
Town Hall for Massachusetts Childcare & Early Education Providers
To address some of the significant changes you are facing, or may come to face, in this quickly changing environment
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 Eastern time
[Update: Here’s the link to the webinar recording.]
The webinar will feature lawyers from Goodwin Procter’s Neighborhood Business Initiative as well as speakers from the Children’s Investment Fund, Neighborhood Villages, and Strategies for Children.
“Providers are experts at child development. And Goodwin Procter has tremendous legal experience working with local businesses, nonprofits, and banks,” Titus Dos Remedios, Strategies’ director of research and policy, says. “Connecting these two groups will help providers immediately and over time as we move beyond the pandemic.”
The webinar will cover:
• the federal CARES Act loans and other small business relief programs
• employment
• contracts, performance and force majeure
(force majeur, as Goodwin Procter explains, is a provision in a contract that “limits damages” when circumstances beyond anyone’s control – like coronavirus –prevent someone from fulfilling a contract’s terms)
• managing commercial leases and working with landlords
• working with lenders in periods of distress, and
• providing child care for essential workers
The speakers from the four co-sponsoring organizations will be:
Goodwin Procter LLP
Anna Dodson, Partner
Heidi Mayon, Partner
Eric Carlson, Partner
Brian Cook, Associate
Kevin Grumberg, Partner
Robert Hale, Partner
Christina Lewis, Partner
Jen Necas, Associate
Joe Rockers, Partner
Melissa Schwab Wright, Partner
Children’s Investment Fund
Theresa Jordan, Director
Neighborhood Villages
Lauren Birchfield Kennedy, Co-Founder
Strategies for Children
Amy O’Leary, Early Education for All Campaign Director
Please register and join us.
Can’t make the webinar? It will be recorded.
[Update: Check out the webinar recording.]
Eye on Early Education is a blog of Strategies for Children, an organization that works to ensure that Massachusetts invests the resources needed for all children, from birth to age five, to access high-quality early education programs that prepare them for success in school and life. The blogger, 
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