May-cember is in full swing 🫡 ✓ Spirit week ✓ Field day ✓ Awards ceremonies ✓ Teacher appreciation ✓ Class picnic ✓ “Dress like your favorite book character tomorrow” texts sent at 9:47 PM. The end of the school year is chaos for every mom. But somehow, working moms are expected to keep their jobs running like none of this is happening. THIS is why flexibility matters. Because parents shouldn’t have to choose between being present at work and present for their children. Video via @/uhhuhhannah
Moms First
Non-profit Organizations
A national non-profit organization fighting for America’s moms and policies like affordable child care and paid leave.
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Moms First is a national non-profit organization fighting for America’s moms and policies like affordable child care and paid leave.
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- Non-profit Organizations
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- 11-50 employees
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- 2020
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Join us TOMORROW for a webinar on what's actually working when it comes to child care and workforce stability. McKinsey & Company will present findings from The Foundational Workers Report, which found that child care disruptions are costing U.S. businesses up to $70 billion annually, with the heaviest impact on foundational workers: nurses, teachers, manufacturing, hospitality, and retail employees. The people you can't automate or leave unfilled. We'll walk through the findings and hear directly from JBS USA, Simple Modern, and UAMS - University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences — employers already investing in child care solutions and seeing measurable returns. If you're thinking about talent retention, absenteeism, or operational continuity, this is the conversation to be in. Register now at https://lnkd.in/eexXTJfN
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When moms shared their stories with us, one theme kept coming up again and again: pumping. Different jobs. Different states. Different bosses. Same story. There's a federal law now: the PUMP Act requires most employers to provide break time and a private, non-bathroom space. That's real progress. But a pumping room isn't paid leave. If moms had the time they needed at home, they wouldn't be scheduling their bodies around back-to-back meetings. It's past time for the system to catch up.
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America keeps asking: why aren't women having more children? Almost no one asks: why have we made having a child so dangerous? More than 2.3 million women of childbearing age live in maternity care deserts. Hospitals are cutting labor & delivery units. And in the South, Black mothers are dying at devastating rates from causes we know how to prevent. We actually know how to fix this. Some states already are. Swipe to see the full picture.
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Since 2013, Kate Spade New York has invested $35M in women’s and girls’ mental health and empowerment. Our goal? To reach 250,000 women and girls around the world with mental health resources by 2030. Glimmers…on a global scale. 🍓Read more in our 2025 Global Social Impact Report: https://lnkd.in/efAUxA48
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As a female founded, women-led, certified B Corp, we've always done things differently. And at twenty years, we're more committed than ever to creating learning spaces worthy of the children inside them. We wrote Change the Cycle: A Manifesto for Learning Environments because the industry has been normalizing disposable furniture in schools for decades — and someone needed to name it. This June, we're doing something about the other barrier. We know that choosing better is not always easy. Budget cycles are short. Procurement processes are complex. The right decision often loses to the convenient one. So we're offering financial assistance across qualifying project tiers — Sapling, Grove, and Canopy — scaled to project size, for all stakeholders committed to learning environments built to last a generation. Orders placed in June arrive by September, in time for the 2026–2027 school year. We're also proud to share that a portion of every order will be donated to Moms First in the United States and the Canadian Child Care Federation (CCCF) — organizations doing the structural work that holds learning communities together: fighting for paid leave, affordable childcare, and the support working parents and caregivers to stay in the workforce. This is what we mean when we say quality is a form of advocacy. When a school commits to furniture built to last, the budget goes further, the environment stays calm, and a portion of that purchase moves directly into the work that makes showing up possible. For tier details and to start a project conversation → link in first comment. 🍊 #ChangeTheCycle #EducationLeadership #SchoolFurniture #BCorp #SustainableProcurement #WomenLed #MomsFirst #CCCF B Lab B Lab U.S. & Canada B Local British Columbia
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Yesterday, Moms First and New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA) — New Jersey's leading voice in workforce and business policy — brought senior business leaders together for an honest conversation about what our broken child care system is actually costing employers. Around the table: CEOs, CHROs, Heads of Benefits, and executive leaders from companies of every size, representing industries across the state. What united them was a shared recognition: child care isn't just a family issue. It's a workforce issue. The conversation centered on new findings from The Foundational Workers Report (with analysis by McKinsey & Company), including exclusive New Jersey data: employers are losing $2.28B annually due to child care instability, with more than half of those losses concentrated in the foundational workforce. And New Jersey caregivers are leaving their jobs — and the workforce entirely — at rates above the national average. What happened next was the most encouraging part. Leaders came ready to problem-solve. The discussion ranged from big-picture ("Wouldn't it be great to live in a world where…") to concrete policy and regulatory reform. Some executives left with immediate action items, including plans to survey employees and better understand their care needs. The momentum is growing. Now we build. Thank you to every leader who showed up ready to lean in, including our co-host Michele Siekerka, Esq. of NJBIA and program partners at Start Strong NJ. We're excited to see The Garden State grow! Photography by Kyo Morishima Photography
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Access to affordable, reliable child care is critical for young parents to stay in school, build careers and create stability. In this new podcast episode with Lemonada Media, Casey’s Quanic Fullard speaks with Bella Agee about the need for childcare and why investing in young families benefits everyone. Listen to the episode: https://lnkd.in/eAK5A-M7
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1 in 4 mothers in the U.S. return to work within 2 weeks of giving birth. There's no sugarcoating that. But there IS an opportunity hidden inside it: when you're starting from a place this broken, you get to dream big. So let's not settle for 2 weeks, or 6, or even 12. Let's reimagine what real parental leave looks like — paid leave and childcare support, together, as a baseline, not a benefit. Voters are ready for this. Leaders and policymakers need to catch up. In the meantime: paidleave.ai helps parents navigate what they're already entitled to, state by state.
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