Member Spotlight
Hope Starts Here: Detroit’s Early Childhood Partnership
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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Early Childhood Financing
Many states are developing child care plans amidst dynamic discussion about child care financing. This presents an opportunity for grantmakers to work in states to elevate the importance of public funding for child care. ECFC has prioritized child care as a program and policy priority to harness this momentum, and help funders explore child care access, affordability, and quality with an emphasis on building support for public financing for child care.
ECFC Webinar
Philanthropy’s Opportunity to Leverage Head Start to Improve Child Well-Being
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 Webinar
Funder Briefing: Transforming the Financing of Early Care and Education
On March 8, 2018, the ECFC early childhood financing committee hosted a virtual funder briefing on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine’s report Transforming the...
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Webinar
Census 2020 Messaging: Testing Results for Young Children
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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Reflections on ECFC’s Deep Dive into the DC Early Learning System
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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Member Spotlight
Examples of Funder Action to Count All Kids
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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Member Spotlight
5 Things EC Funders Can Do: Young Children and the 2020 Census
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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Philanthropy News
Early Learning Emerges for Investment Growth Among Education Funders
In February, 2019, Grantmakers for Education released the tenth anniversary edition of Trends in Education Philanthropy: Benchmarking 2018-19. A decade ago, the first Trends benchmarking study...
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Early Childhood in the State of Hawai’i- Inspiring Focus on Cultural Equity, Inter-generational Change, System Change, and Most Underserved Children
A Reflection from the Early Childhood Funders’ Collaborative Hawai’i Study Tour by Isabelle Hau, Investment Partner, and Vinice Davis, Venture Partner, Omidyar Network Thanks...
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ECFC Webinar
Ballot Initiatives for Children, December 12th
Hosted by ECFC’s EC Financing Committee, this webinar: addressed state and local ballot initiatives for children; provided an overview of where progress has been on...
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