After-school programmes. Supervised hours between the bell and the commute home.
It is a service someone performs.
It exists to relieve School ends hours before work does and Children need hours that careers also need. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
3 organisations in this map sell it, 2 of them publicly listed.
Its neighbourhood
Everything this entry connects to directly. Click any point to follow it.
The line back to a human being
2 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- SolutionAfter-school programmes
- FrictionChildren need hours that careers also need
- Life phaseParenthood
- Rooted inScarce resources
- Rooted inScarce time
Relieves
Who sells it
| Organisation | Value | Type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bright Horizons | $7B | public · BFAM | employer-sponsored childcare centres, back-up care, EdAssist |
| KinderCare Learning Companies | $1.5B | public · KLC | KinderCare centres, Champions before/after school |
| YMCA | nonprofit | after-school programmes, summer camps, swim lessons |