No One is Coming to Save Us
No One is Coming to Save Us
Neighborhood Villages and Lemonada Media are taking their drive for access to quality, affordable early childcare on the road for Season 3 of the hit podcast, No One is Coming to Save Us! Join host and veteran reporter Gloria Riviera as she sets out across America to find out who is working on fixing the country’s broken childcare system. Gloria hears from local leaders, policy makers, parents, pr…Social links:
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Listen Now: The Letter Season Two
The hit true-crime podcast The Letter is back for Season Two. Today, we’re dropping into your feed to offer you a sneak peek of this gripping and impactful story. On a winter morning in 1982, two young fathers were found shot to death in a van parked outside an upscale Utah restaurant.The killer …
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Fostering a Better Future (with Sandra Gasca and Lisa Guillette)
When young adults leave the foster care system they’re left trying to find housing or employment on their own. Oftentimes, the thing they yearn for the most is family. In this special episode, Gloria chats with the Vice President of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Center for Systems Innovation, San…
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How Care Can Bring Our Country Together (Live from CareFest LA)
Gloria is live at CareFest in Los Angeles, presented by Caring Across Generations, to bring you a conversation among leading care advocates about the potential of the care agenda to unite a divided nation. She is joined by Lisa Hamilton Daly, the Executive Vice President of Programming for Hallmark…
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Uniting Parents to Improve Schools (with Keri Rodrigues)
Keri Rodrigues's son was suspended 36 times while he was in kindergarten. She felt abandoned by school officials and like the teachers hated her child. So she went into mama bear mode, organized local parents, and changed the local school system. Now, as President of the National Parents Union, she…
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How Richmond Raised the Standard For Mixed Delivery Care
The tour makes a virtual stop in Richmond, where host Gloria Riviera learns how the community has built a public-private partnership to help subsidize a mixed-delivery model of care that helps families find programs tailored to their specific needs. This week we meet Cheryl Morman, a family child …
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How We Close the Nation’s Literacy Gap
Literacy advocates are asking us all to face an uncomfortable reality: For decades, we’ve done a poor job of teaching children how to read in this country, and the widening gap in literacy is most apparent among our Black, Latino and Native American young people. The good news is that we now know …
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Lessons Learned From Our National Tour (With Latoya Gayle)
As we conclude our national tour, host Gloria Riviera and our partner Latoya Gayle reflect on the lessons learned from advocates and caretakers we met across the U.S. They chat about the inspiration they are taking away from this journey after meeting so many people working to make a difference in …
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How Colorado Comes Together To Care for Kids
The tour stops in Denver to learn how advocates are advancing universal pre-k and how they’re working to fill the rest of the child care and early childhood education puzzle so children have robust support from ages birth to five. We meet panelists Natriece Bryant, public private partnership dir…
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How New Mexico Negotiated Big Childcare Wins
Throughout the tour, New Mexico has been held up as the shining example of communities coming together to energize voters and pass funding for early child care. For over a decade, organizers worked tirelessly to pass a constitutional amendment which increased funding for early childhood education. …
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How Texas Tackled A Child Care Shortage
The tour makes a virtual stop in Texas to learn how child care and early childhood education advocates are working with business leaders and elected officials across the political spectrum to expand care options for families. We meet panelists Councilmember Vanessa Fuentes, the representative for…
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