The major structural redesign is the creation of a democratic worker-owned company to run and operate childcare programs through a management contract with either nonprofit childcare centers or community or business groups trying to service their constituents. Mount Airy, Germantown, and West Philadelphia. Both in its management and in its advocacy work, Childspace emphasizes that high quality, well-paying jobs are critical to providing superior childcare. Approximately 200 children and their parents, and 35 Childspace staff members. CMG is the for-profit corporation owned by a subset of Childspace's workers.
Board members serve on committees.
The Childspace Daycare Center is a nonprofit that contracts with the cooperative to run the organization. Eight parents of children who attend Childspace serve on the daycare center's board. However, in contrast to CMG board members, they are limited to an advisory and oversight role. This is done to ensure workers' job security in the face of parents whose interest in the operation is short-term, while enabling a vehicle for input from the community Childspace serves. Innovation Childspace ensures high-quality childcare by way of vesting ownership and management in the hands of its employees and by offering a generous wage, raise, and benefit scheme that ensures their continued involvement with the operation.