Due to the coronavirus, many of this month’s speaking engagements have been changed, postponed or cancelled. We will be keeping this blog up to date as information rolls in regarding April’s events. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

HINGE team members Kathe Petchel and Alec Ligon will attend the 2020 Georgia Child Care Association’s annual Spring Owners’ and Directors’ Conference in Duluth, GA on Thursday, March 19th. UPDATE: This event has been postponed.

HINGE Brokers has successfully aided the sale of business and real estate for Blue Skies Exploration Academy in Colorado Spring, CO to a national owner-operated provider of preschool education and early childcare programs in the U.S.

The team at HINGE Brokers is pleased to announce the successful sale of business and long-term lease of real estate lease for Peyton’s Learning Place in Central Michigan.

Thank you to the more than 300 childcare business owners and operatives that attended our 2020 SHIFT Childcare Leaders Conference in Miami last week! Read our quick recap and view this year’s video in this blog post.

This year’s SHIFT Childcare Leaders Conference is shaping up to be our best one yet! Whether you’re a SHIFT newcomer or a loyal attendee, here’s why you should be excited to attend this year’s conference in Miami…

Founder & CEO of HINGE Brokers, Kathy Ligon, authored Child Care Exchange Magazine’s Thirty-Third Annual Status Report on For-Profit Child Care. The article reveals high optimism for continued growth in the industry as well as the development of creative strategies and collaborations to help combat staffing issues and address concerns surrounding universal Pre-K initiatives.

We are so excited about our newly created team of industry experts, put together to further support our sellers during their selling process. Meet our new Client Relations team: Kathe Petchel and Molly Petchel!

HINGE Founder & CEO Kathy Ligon shares her insights on setting yourself up for success in 2020. Find out what methodology she uses to determine what’s essential to her sanity and her success in this year-end letter.

Childcare business owners often catch themselves working in their business instead of on it. And with the incredible amount of incoming distractions, it’s easy for owners to get bogged down in tasks that might be good to do but aren’t essential to operating a quality, financially healthy business…

Kathy will present The Five Essential Elements of Financial Health: An Overview on Wednesday, December 11th beginning at 1pm EST. Her presentation will provide a sneak peek into the five things that childcare business owners need to pay strong attention to in order to become financially strong.

The team at HINGE Brokers is pleased to announce the successful sale of business and real estate for longstanding childcare center, Crossroad Kidz, in Moore, Oklahoma.