From the moment you become a parent you are intrinsically a creator, sustainer, provider, and maker.
Yet many parents struggle balancing working from home with caring for the demands of their family.
While you have big dreams and ideas, you may feel isolated, overwhelmed, overworked, and burnt out.
You've been craving a home-away-from-home where your kids can be nurtured and cared for while you have time and space to work.
The Makers Place™ is an intentionally-designed community where working parents create, connect, and collaborate while their Mini Makers™ are cared for in our onsite childcare and preschool programs.
We provide:
A professional, open-concept coworking space with multiple rooms and workspace options
Play-based onsite childcare for young children (3 months to 2 years) in our Mini Makers™ Studio (parents must remain onsite)
Multiple enrollment options in our fully licensed Mini Makers™ Preschool for students 2-5 years old
Bookable conference rooms, meeting space, and public event rentals
Professional and personal development opportunities from leadership workshops to lifestyle coaching and more!
Social and community gatherings to build relationships with other members
A variety of flexible membership plans to meet your family needs and dynamic lifestyle
CREATING A COMMUNITY SPACE
What started as a day-dream of two busy parents working from home in the summer of 2017 (one of whom was exceptionally pregnant with baby #2), quickly became a realized vision as the business concept for this community hub for parents of young children was developed.
We launched just a few months later in January 2018, offering coworking space and mixed-age childcare for young children ages 0-5 years at our original location on X Street. Less than a year later, we added on our licensed Mini Makers™ Preschool program to offer more flexible, drop-off solutions for families with young children. Starting as a three-hour morning enrichment program, our preschool expanded to become a full-day program in July 2020 after the Pandemic challenged us to pivot our model, without compromising our mission. By the end of 2020, we had served over 150 families since we opened our doors two years earlier!
Tripling our available hours and growing our professional team took courage, grit, perseverance, and optimism. Going in to 2021, our Leadership Team considered what additional avenues were available locally to serve families with young children and decided to consider expanding our classroom offerings. We had noticed some local preschools and day cares in our neighboring region remain closed, with some never planning to reopen based on the impacts of the Pandemic.
As we intentionally expanded our programs and services, we wanted to provide access to early learning for more families with various needs. With some physical limitations at our original site, our Leadership Team started considering the feasibility of a location change and decided to move our operations to a larger commercial property that was less than a mile away. We completed this move in summer of 2021, and expanded our programs and services to welcome even more local families.
To date, we have served over 500 local families, and we are committed to continuing to provide more early learning and support services for even more local families! Now we are looking to the future to see what is possible as we follow mission to create an inclusive hub of services to meet the developmental needs of families with young children.
Hear our Co-Founder and Preschool Director, Leslie Bosserman, share the origin story of our business community in her TEDx talk Leave the Someday Isle and Start Before You’re Ready
THE FAMILY BEHIND THE BUSINESS
This space has been intentionally designed for families by parents and professionals
Leslie Bosserman is an entrepreneur who works as a Leadership Educator and Coach and her husband, Joel Bosserman, is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst who runs an early-intervention program for children with autism.
Together, we have three young children and over four decades of experience in business and education, including successfully running start ups and volunteering locally with organizations like TEDxSacramento and internationally, living abroad in Amman, Jordan while we volunteered in local schools.
One of our core family values is service and we aim to use our experience, skills, and talents to support families and creative professionals so they, too, can express themselves and create something amazing!
We know that parents and families thrive when they feel supported and connected to others through shared experiences.
The Makers Place™ has become a centralized hub in Sacramento for parents who want to find positive balance with business, school, family, and personal needs. It’s also a space for new parents to craft their emerging identity and transition back into work.
A home away from the chaos of home where students can study without worrying about who is watching their kids.
A community made of families who all believe that the world is better when you can rely on each other and don’t have to do it alone!
Our community mission is driven by a character-education model that emphasizes various core values like integrity, creativity, innovation, compassion, and collaboration to ultimately amplify the ethos of our greater Sacramento community.
We also offer a series of leadership development and parenting workshops for members and the public alongside scholarship spaces for parents of underserved communities that have an expressed need. Contact us to learn more!
