(The Center Square) – A nonprofit daycare that claims to have “over 40 locations” across California and received an $18.2 million award “for more [than] 1,048 children in at-risk” communities” actually has just one facility providing care for no more than six children, an investigation by The Center Square found.
The William Law Foundation did not open its first daycare until October 2026, according to Executive Director William Edwards — more than three years after the nonprofit was awarded $18,216,131 through the California Department of Social Services’ 2022-23 General Child Care and Development Program grants.
“It’s been a slow start,” Edwards conceded to The Center Square in an interview earlier this month at his Bakersfield facility…