Our Mission
Building, supporting, and sustaining multigenerational family networks and kinship care systems.
Mission Statement
Grandma Daisy Inc builds, supports, and sustains multigenerational family networks and kinship care systems through community education, public data resources, library partnerships, direct family services, and village-building programs that strengthen the capacity of grandparents, kinship caregivers, and chosen family networks to raise and support children and elders.
The Problem We Address
in the United States are raised by grandparents or other relatives without a parent present in the home. Millions more live in multigenerational households where grandparents provide significant caregiving support.
These kinship caregivers often operate without the formal support systems available to foster parents or adoptive families, despite performing the same essential function.
are affected by elder isolation. The breakdown of multigenerational family connection contributes to both problems: children lose the stability of extended family support, and elders lose the daily connection that gives life meaning and structure.
Our Approach
Rather than treating these as separate problems requiring separate solutions, Grandma Daisy Inc addresses them as connected outcomes of the same structural cause: the weakening of multigenerational family networks.
Community Education
Workshops, presentations, and educational materials that help families understand and strengthen their multigenerational networks.
Public Data Resources
Accessible information about family services, kinship care resources, and community support available in local areas.
Library Partnerships
Collaborations with public libraries to deliver family-strengthening programming in trusted community spaces.
Direct Family Services
Practical support for grandparent-headed households and kinship care families.
Village-Building Programs
Structured programs that help families and communities create and sustain the networks of mutual support that every family needs.
Our Values
Function over biology
Meet families where they are
Community-trusted delivery
- Every family structure that performs the function of multigenerational care deserves support — biological, adoptive, kinship, and chosen family networks alike
- The grandmother function is structural, not biological — defined by what someone does for the family, not by gender, age, or biological relationship
- Effective support meets families where they are, not where an institution wishes they were
- Community education works best when delivered through institutions families already trust