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...
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Policy
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Emergency Funds and the ECE Sector: What We are Learning
Co-hosted with Grantmakers for Education As part of ECFC’s weekly COVID-19 call series, this call explored early childhood related state and national emergency funds to learn...
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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...
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Acting Boldly in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examples from Grassroots Organizations Funded by the Raising Child Care Fund
April 22, 2020 (Updated May 5, 2020) By Rachel Schumacher, Project Manager, Raising Child Care Fund Foundations are starting to understand the immediate and longer-term...
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