Venette Pierre is the Communications Manager Home Grown. Her background includes marketing, public relations and community development. She is passionate about advocating for access to quality supports for underserved communities and storytelling through digital communications.
Venette Pierre
Communications Manager
Articles by Venette Pierre
Uplifting Community Cultural Wealth in Black Communities
Black and Brown communities have historically relied on home-based child care as a form of community cultural wealth and resilience even though this work has been consistently undervalued due to systemic inequities. Recognizing the strengths of providers and caregivers and investing in culturally rooted solutions can help shift the power in decision-making and help strengthen and support home-based child care.
Women Working in Home-based Child Care Are Experiencing the Worst of Pay Inequity
Together with the inspiring women who are home-based child care providers and caregivers, Home Grown celebrated Women's History Month by calling for adequate wages that reflect the value of the contributions of providers to young child development, family support, and local economies and communities.
Celebrating Black home-based providers and their continuing legacy of communal care in their communities
This Black History Month, we're honoring Black home-based child care providers who don’t just provide care to children; their work holds up their communities, and in doing so, they continue a legacy of communal care for Black communities.
Home Grown Endorses the Early Childhood Nutrition Improvement Act
Home Grown is proud to endorse the Early Childhood Nutrition Improvement Act in the U.S. House. We look forward to working with Members of Congress to help accomplish our shared goal of keeping our kids fed. Read our full statement.
Home Grown Applauds the Biden Administration’s Request for $16 Billion in Additional Funding for Child Care
Home Grown applauds the Administration for submitting to Congress the request for much-needed resources to keep child care providers afloat, and urges Congress to pass this much-needed aid quickly. Read our full statement.
Investment in Food, Nutrition in Child Care and Head Start Lapses, 56 National Organizations Urge Congress to Act Now
Home Grown is among 56 national organizations urging Congress to extend the Keep Kids Fed Act (KKFA) meal reimbursement increases for an additional year to help child care providers and schools feed children over the summer and during the upcoming school year. We urge Congress to act now.
New Report Provides Data, Illuminates Opportunities and Challenges for Home-based Pre-K Providers
Home Grown believes that Family Child Care providers contribute a vital service and are deserving of the opportunity to access public pre-K funding to further teach the children in their care.