Who runs the campus childcare centers?

Between 1964 and 1976, six non-profit childcare centers were founded on Harvard’s campuses, by and for Harvard’s students, faculty and staff. Hosted in Harvard space and tailored to their individual communities’ needs, they were governed by parent-run boards of directors and operated independently from one another and the university. In 2017, they unified as a single new nonprofit organization, Campus Child Care, Inc, (CCC) with a view to streamlining their administrative functions, strengthening collaboration across centers, and improving long-term governance. Since then, CCC has opened a seventh center. CCC has an operating agreement with Harvard for the services it provides.

In addition, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health participate in a childcare center consortium managed by Longwood Collective. This gives affiliates of these schools access to a limited number of slots at the Longwood Medical Area Child Care Center.