To build philanthropic capacity in early childhood and spread funder resources, ECFC engages and shares practices and expertise with local, state and regional EC funder collaboratives. Through its State & Local Collaboratives work, ECFC provides a forum for state and local early childhood funder collaboratives to share with and learn from each other and create connections between national, state and local philanthropic groups.
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...
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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...
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Thanks to the work of early childhood leaders across the country, support for early care and education is on the rise. But funding gaps pose...
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For more than a decade, a small local early childhood funders collaborative, led by the Kresge Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, had been meeting...
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The Office of Head Start has announced that there will be competitions for Head Start funding in communities around the country this fall. With $950...
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ECFC’s Early Childhood Financing Committee hosted a virtual funder briefing on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine’s report Transforming the Financing of Early Care...
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Sept 10th Webinar Hosted by: The Funders Census Initiative The Funders Census Initiative is pleased to continue their briefing series on census messaging results in partnership with...
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In March 2019, the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative (ECFC) Spring Member Meeting took us on a deep dive into early learning system using the District...
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Tailored Tools for Funders Census 2020 Menu of Options for Funders – Funders Census Initiative and the United Philanthropy Forum. 2020 Census: Each Decade, We Have...
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This feature highlights five things early childhood funders can do to elevate the importance of counting young children in the 2020 Census based on a...
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