Webinar: October 1, 2020 The pandemic and economic fallout are placing significant strains on state and local budgets, costing millions to contain the disease and......
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.
COVID-19
Weekly EC Funders Call: Early Learning Experiences of Young Children & Pre-K Funding Trends
On September 17th, Lori Connors-Tadros, Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), joined us to consider findings from a recent NIEER research......
The Pandemic’s Impact on Families, Children & Early Care Providers
The pandemic’s impact on families with young children includes not only issues of health and child care, but also access to basic needs. Researchers, funders......
Child Care
State and Local Budgets – the Next COVID-19 Battlefront
Webinar: October 1, 2020 The pandemic and economic fallout are placing significant strains on state and local budgets, costing millions to contain the disease and......
Weekly EC Funders Call: Early Learning Experiences of Young Children & Pre-K Funding Trends
On September 17th, Lori Connors-Tadros, Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), joined us to consider findings from a recent NIEER research......
Statement on Relief for Children, Families and Early Care and Learning
August 4, 2020 The Early Childhood Funders Collaborative is a network of 47 national, regional, and local foundations that invest to promote equity in the well-being......
Children in Immigrant Families
Partnering with Policymakers and Community Members to Position Dual Language Learners for Success
ECFC, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees and Philanthropy Advocates invite funders to a cutting-edge discussion on how to make strategic investments and restructure biased policies......
Children Thrive Action Network: Defending and Supporting America’s Children in Immigrant Families
On July 22nd, ECFC and Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) co-hosted a funders discussion about the new Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN). The mission of CTAN......
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......
Early Childhood Financing
State and Local Budgets – the Next COVID-19 Battlefront
Webinar: October 1, 2020 The pandemic and economic fallout are placing significant strains on state and local budgets, costing millions to contain the disease and......
Weekly EC Funders Call: Early Learning Experiences of Young Children & Pre-K Funding Trends
On September 17th, Lori Connors-Tadros, Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), joined us to consider findings from a recent NIEER research......
Philanthropic Responses to Emergency EC & Child Care Needs
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, many states closed child care programs with the exception of limited emergency child care sites – some closing all child......
Early Relational Health
Early Relational Health & Racial Equity Workgroups: Joint Book Club Meeting
On Wednesday August 25th, ECFC’s Early Relational Health and Racial Equity Workgroups will host a book club-style discussion on an episode of the “On Being......
Early Relational Health Book Club Meeting: Framing ERH
On Thursday June 25th, the ECFC Early Relational Health Workgroup hosted a “Book Club” Meeting to discuss Building Relationships: Framing Early Relational Health, a new......
Strengthening Early Relationships and Social and Emotional Health
Our Fall 2019 member meeting began with a pre-session hosted by ECFC’s Early Relational Health Committee exploring two innovative models and approaches to supporting the infant......
Funder Collaboratives
Building Parent & Practitioner Power in Child Care
When it comes to child care conversations, too often the voices of parents and practitioners are left out, especially parents and practitioners of color.......
EC Funder Calls
In October, ECFC will transition weekly calls for EC Funders (open to all funders and philanthropic advisors) to every-other-week peer with a few exceptions due......
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......
State and Local Budgets – the Next COVID-19 Battlefront
Webinar: October 1, 2020 The pandemic and economic fallout are placing significant strains on state and local budgets, costing millions to contain the disease and......
Weekly EC Funders Call: Early Learning Experiences of Young Children & Pre-K Funding Trends
On September 17th, Lori Connors-Tadros, Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), joined us to consider findings from a recent NIEER research......
Statement on Relief for Children, Families and Early Care and Learning
August 4, 2020 The Early Childhood Funders Collaborative is a network of 47 national, regional, and local foundations that invest to promote equity in the well-being......
Strengthening the Teacher of Color Pipeline in Tribal communities
ECFC Virtual Workshop as part of Grantmakers for Education’s Year-Round Conference Sponsored by W.K. Kellogg Foundation Place-based culturally responsive programming is vital to improving the......
ECFC Racial Equity Learning Series for Members
ECFC is partnering with School Readiness Consulting (SRC) and Liberated Development to present a series of five (5) virtual learning opportunities for ECFC members this......
ECFC Racial Equity Workgroup Townhall Meetings – Aug 11 & 25
In 2019 the ECFC Steering Committee assessed progress toward ECFC’s vision of equitable opportunities for all children and concluded that race equity should be a......