Our mission:
Keep skilled healthcare workers where they are needed most by reducing the childcare burden that pushes them out of the workforce.
A stable healthcare workforce strengthens America’s communities, supports rural and urban clinics, and ensures families can access timely and reliable care.
The Zorya Foundation strengthens America’s healthcare workforce by helping working mothers afford the childcare they need to stay on the job.
Women make up the majority of the nation’s healthcare providers. They are nurses, medical assistants, care coordinators, and frontline staff — the people who keep clinics, hospitals, and community health centers running every day. But high childcare costs are forcing many to cut their hours or leave the workforce altogether, creating shortages that impact patient care and strain already struggling community healthcare systems.
We believe in direct impact.
Our grants are:
Targeted — focused on working mothers who are essential to patient care
Efficient — fast, simple, and direct
Outcome-oriented — keeping and advancing providers in the workforce
Flexible — applicable to the childcare arrangement that works best for each family