Reach Greater Philadelphia Families Making Early Childhood Education Decisions Through Main Line Parent, Philadelphia Family, and Bucks County Parent
The family who enrolls their child in your program next fall is probably already looking for you right now. A family expecting their first baby starts asking about infant care before the nursery is painted. A parent whose child turns three in September starts researching preschool options in January — sometimes earlier.
You want your program to stand out in a crowded market, attract the families who are the right fit for your philosophy, and build the kind of loyal enrollment community that refers the next family before you ever have to ask. You need to reach parents who are overwhelmed with options — and help them understand why your program is exactly what they’ve been looking for.
At the same time, you’re working with a limited budget and need every marketing dollar to count. You’re looking for strategies that are effective and efficient, that build your reputation beyond your current and alumni families, and ultimately drive enrollment from the families you most want to serve, year after year.
The Family Focus Media team can help you implement targeted strategies through collaborations with Main Line Parent, Philadelphia Family, and Bucks County Parent to help you achieve these goals and support a marketing plan that resonates with your ideal families.
Your Next Early Childhood Education Guide Opportunity: July 2026
Early Childhood Education Guide sponsorships are available three times a year — timed to reach families at the exact moments they’re most actively searching.
July 19, 2026 (materials due 7/12/26) — Summer is when families are actively planning for fall. The toddler turning two in August is suddenly ready for a two-day program. The family that just moved to the area is in our community groups asking for recommendations right now. This edition closes soon.
December 6, 2026 — Early bird enrollment season, reaching families before most programs open their application window.
January 17, 2027 — The new year surge, catching families at the very beginning of their spring enrollment search.
Early Childhood Education Guide High Five Newsletter Promotions: July 23 · July 30 · August 13 · September 3 · December 3
Total exposures: 8 touchpoints across three email and social media launches and five newsletter promotions — reaching families making education decisions throughout the entire fall season, from back-to-school adjustment through first-quarter evaluations and winter break planning.
Not sure which launch date aligns with your enrollment season or outreach calendar? Reach out — we’ll help you map your sponsorship to the moments when your families are most actively searching.
Client Success Story
The Aspen Grove School has collaborated with our team to grow their enrollment since 2020 with Presenting and Contributing Sponsorships, Sponsored Stories, Dedicated Emails, High Five Email Spotlights, and Social Media Campaigns.
“Most importantly, we’ve seen real results.”
Sharon Jayakumar
President, The Aspen Grove School
“We have enjoyed a wonderful partnership with Philly Family over the years and are grateful for the many opportunities to share the story of The Aspen Grove School with families across the region. It is invaluable to have a trusted local resource dedicated to all things family-related.
Our relationship with Philly Family extends beyond our school as I also rely on it as a Philadelphia parent of two young children. The variety of platforms they offer, from dedicated emails and social media posts to in-depth feature stories, has helped us connect with different audiences in meaningful ways. We have appreciated the professional photography opportunities that accompany these stories and have been able to use the images in other channels.
Most importantly, we’ve seen real results. Several families who tour Aspen Grove tell us they learned about our school through Philly Family Magazine, making this partnership both meaningful and impactful.”
Get to know The Aspen Grove School through their Philadelphia Family stories.
The Early Childhood Education Guide Sponsorship was designed for you if you are:
A preschool or pre-K program with a philosophy worth sharing and families worth finding — families who will not just enroll their child but become your most passionate advocates in the community groups where the next generation of referrals gets made.
A daycare center or childcare program that understands working families make childcare decisions under enormous pressure — time pressure, emotional pressure, financial pressure — and desperately need a trusted source that helps them feel confident they’ve found something good.
An early childhood enrichment program — music, movement, language immersion, sensory play, art, STEM for the youngest learners — whose enrollment lives and dies by whether families know you exist before they’ve already committed their child’s schedule elsewhere.
A pediatric therapist, early intervention specialist, or developmental professional serving children ages 0–6 whose families find their way to you through a trusted editorial resource rather than a clinical directory.
A kindergarten readiness program whose window is narrow and whose families are making decisions with one immovable deadline: the school year start date. Be findable before they’ve already made a different choice.
We only work with sponsors who share our core values and commitments to inclusion, diversity, and village building. Our readers trust us to recommend people and organizations who reflect these values.
Early Childhood Education Guide Sponsorship Opportunities
The following opportunities are available to organizations with an active Membership. Contact membership@familyfocus.org if you are unsure of your status.
Sponsorships are priced per community, per edition, with three launch opportunities to support per year. Space permitting, your story may be included in more than one Guide Dedicated Email and Social Carousel Campaign within a 12-month period — and long after your campaign wraps, it keeps working by earning organic search traffic.
Let’s Connect. Reserve a Google Meet with our team to schedule your campaigns — or reach out anytime with questions.
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Membership
$365.00 / year Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
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Presenting Sponsorship Upgrade (Add-on)
$750.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Presenting Sponsorship
For organizations ready to claim the most visible position on the guide.
Your brand leads with a “Presented by” banner credit across the Guide Landing Page, a Guide Dedicated Email Spotlight, and a Guide Social Media Carousel Campaign.
You bring the banner — we handle premium top-of-page placement, SEO optimization, and guide email and social media promotion.
Requires an active Contributing Sponsorship (Community Blog Post or Sponsored Story) for the same Guide and Community brand.
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Contributing Sponsorship – Sponsored Story Upgrade (Add-on)
$450.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Contributing Sponsorship: Sponsored Story Upgrade
Want us to write it for you and give it extra promotion with email and social media?
Same three-placement campaign as the Community Blog Post plus a full-service storytelling experience and promotion.
Our team conducts your brand story interview, writes and edits your Sponsored Story, and adds promotion with a High Five Newsletter Spotlight and Social Media Story Promotion.
Requires an active Contributing Sponsorship (Community Blog Post) for the same Guide and Community brand.
Our team conducts your brand story interview, writes and edits your Sponsored Story, and adds bonus distribution: a High Five Newsletter Spotlight and a dedicated Social Media Campaign.
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Contributing Sponsorship – Community Blog Post
$750.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Contributing Sponsorship: Community Blog Post
For organizations ready to tell the story that turns a searching parent into a devoted client
Your story appears in three high-value placements: the Guide Landing Page, the Guide Dedicated Email, and a Guide Social Media Carousel Campaign.
You bring the story — we handle SEO optimization, readability editing, guide email and social media promotion, and a strategic opportunity to share in our Community Facebook Group.
Requires an active Membership with the same Community brand.
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Supporting Sponsorship
$350.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Supporting Sponsorship
For Members Building Linked Visibility
You don’t need a full sponsored story to have a meaningful presence with our Guides. This is your entry point — a three-part visibility promotion reaching the right families at the right moment.
Your Profile Page appears in three strategic placements: the Guide Landing Page, the Guide Dedicated Email with a direct link, and the Guide Social Media Carousel Campaign, to put your organization’s name in front of families actively searching for relevant resources.
Requires an active Membership with the same Community brand.
Family Focus Media reaches over 400,000 local families annually. Read more about our Community Reach here.
Early Childhood Education Guide Engagement Numbers That Matter
When our Early Childhood Education Guides launch, they reach 39,000+ email subscribers across our three communities — with more than 26,000 active openers who engage with our content regularly. Our Guide Social Campaigns extend that reach across 46,700+ Facebook Community Group members and 26,200+ Instagram followers — a combined social reach of 72,445+ Greater Philadelphia parents. You can view our brand-specific Community Reach numbers here.
And the families who find your program’s story don’t scroll past. They spend an average of 30 to 57 seconds actively reading per page — bookmarking preschool roundups to revisit when their child is ready, sharing program profiles in community groups, and saving sponsored stories to show their partners when the conversation about childcare finally happens.
How We Find and Build Trust Among Families With Young Children
These families discover us through Early Childhood Education Guide content that ranks in local search and draws consistent organic traffic year after year. They find us through our Facebook Community Groups, where parents ask for preschool recommendations with the urgency of someone who just realized the waitlist closed in February. They subscribe to our High Five newsletter because another preschool parent told them to, or because they found us when they were pregnant and never left.
One family who finds your program here and enrolls doesn’t just fill a spot. They become the parent who answers the next recommendation request in our Facebook Community group — and says your name first.
Right now, someone in our community is building their child’s future.
Asking for preschool recommendations in our Facebook groups during naptime. Reading our Early Childhood Education Guide on their phone while their toddler sleeps. Saving your program’s story to show their partner tonight — not knowing yet that you’re exactly what they’ve been looking for.
The families who need you are already in our community. They just haven’t found your story yet. Let us put you in your best light and make sure they do.
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