The Raising Child Care Fund (RCCF), a project of the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, is a group is made up of long-term funders committed to early childhood who …
Priority Areas
All of the priority policy issues that face us as a nation have children and families at their heart. Restoring a thriving economy, reducing poverty and improving opportunity, creating living-wage jobs, accessing affordable health care, building a vibrant education system, reforming the immigration and criminal justice systems, and combating global warming to build a sustainable future – are all intricately related to the well-being of children and families. By bringing early childhood issues to the top of the domestic policy agenda, our country can fulfill the promise that every young child brings into the world and fulfill our promise as a nation. ECFC’s programming priorities key areas of interest that have critical policy, as well as practice, implications. Explore our priority areas below.
Child Care
Child Care and Early Education Providers Are in Crisis. How Are Funders Responding?
ECE programs have always been fragile, and have only become more so due to COVID-19. Many may not survive the pandemic. A recent Inside Philanthropy article …
What’s Next for Child Care: Paths to a Sustainable and Equitable Recovery
On this week's COVID-19 peer call for EC funders, we considered paths to sustainable and equitable child care recovery and the role of Community Development …
Early Childhood Financing
Investing in Power Building for Child Care: Raising Child Care Fund Deep Dive for Funders
The Raising Child Care Fund (RCCF), a project of the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, is a group is made up of long-term funders committed to early childhood who …
Child Care and Early Education Providers Are in Crisis. How Are Funders Responding?
ECE programs have always been fragile, and have only become more so due to COVID-19. Many may not survive the pandemic. A recent Inside Philanthropy article …
What’s Next for Child Care: Paths to a Sustainable and Equitable Recovery
On this week's COVID-19 peer call for EC funders, we considered paths to sustainable and equitable child care recovery and the role of Community Development …
Immigrant Children and Families
Introducing the Children Thrive Action Network: Defending and Supporting America’s Children in Immigrant Families
July 22nd, 3pm-4pm ET, Co-hosted with GCIR The Early Childhood Funders Collaborative and Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) invite you to join us July 22nd …
The Pandemic’s Disproportionate Impact on Immigrant Children and Families
Co-hosted with The Alliance for Early Success In addition to highlighting the Coronavirus’s disproportionate impact on immigrant children, speakers discussed federal legislation to address the needs of …
ECFC Weekly EC Funders & COVID-19 Sharing and Learning Calls
- Thursdays @ 3pm ET - ECFC hosts weekly calls for funders to share COVID-19 responses related to early childhood and child care, and to pose …
Policy
Investing in Power Building for Child Care: Raising Child Care Fund Deep Dive for Funders
The Raising Child Care Fund (RCCF), a project of the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, is a group is made up of long-term funders committed to early childhood who …
What’s Next for Child Care: Paths to a Sustainable and Equitable Recovery
On this week's COVID-19 peer call for EC funders, we considered paths to sustainable and equitable child care recovery and the role of Community Development …
The Pandemic’s Impact on Families
This week's COVID-19 call for EC funders explored the impact of the pandemic on families with young children and how organizations are working with families …
Funder Collaboratives
ECFC Weekly EC Funders & COVID-19 Sharing and Learning Calls
- Thursdays @ 3pm ET - ECFC hosts weekly calls for funders to share COVID-19 responses related to early childhood and child care, and to pose …
Joint PSO Statement: Keep Equity at the Forefront in Philanthropy’s Response to the Coronavirus
Thursday March 19, 2020 ECFC has joined nearly 60 other local, state, regional and national philanthropy serving organizations (PSO's) in a joint statement urging Philanthropy to …
The Unique Challenges of Supporting the Early Childhood Sector Through COVID-19
March 19th Webinar, co-hosted by Grantmakers for Education and the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative In the fragmented early childhood system, there are a number of challenges in …