ECFC Meeting
ECFC Spring 2019 Member & Collaboratives Meeting
Meeting agendas, speaker archives and contact directories for the March 11-14 ECFC Member meeting and State and Local EC Funder Collaboratives meeting.
Attendee, Speaker and Site Visit Directory
Click here for attendee, speaker and site list. Attendees: contact ECFC for a full directory.
March 11, 2019 State & Local Funder Collaboratives Meeting [AGENDA]
Opening Panel – Lessons from Seasoned Collaboratives
>DC Early Care and Education Funders Collaborative, Jennifer Lockwood-Shabat, President & CEO, Washington Area Women’s Foundation
>Oregon Early Childhood Learning Circle, Abby Bush, Associate Program Officer, Early Childhood, Oregon Community Foundation
>Connecticut Early Childhood Funder Collaborative, Carol O’Donnell, Executive Director,
>Elsa Holquin, Rose Community Foundation, Denver CO [Moderator]
Afternoon Panel – The Role of Collaboratives in Policy and Advocacy, featuring the Alliance for Early Success Philanthropy Engagement Project states
> Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium, Jennifer Esterline, Executive Director
> North Carolina Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, Cyndi Soter-O’Neil, Senior Policy Advisor, Child Trust Foundation
> New Mexico Early Childhood Funders Group, Katie Dry, Santa Fe Community Foundation – Baby Fund
- PowerPoint
- Alliance for Early Success, Policy Framework [Framework]
- Summary of Survey Findings and Recommendations: EC Advocacy among
Grantmakers in AZ, NM, NY and NC, Frontera Strategy, March 2017 [report]
March 12, 2019, ECFC Member Meeting (Day 1 - DC Deep Dive)
[MAR 12-13 AGENDAS]
[MAR 12-13 AGENDAS]
DC Context Recommended Reading:
>Infants and Toddlers in DC: A Statistical Look at Needs and Disparities [report]>Early Learning Supply and Demand in the District of Columbia: Using Data to Identify Critical Gaps [report] [executive summary][map]>Birth-to-Three For All DC Act of 2018 [blog] [legislation] [legislative summary]>Early Learning: Improving Early Childhood in the DC’s Wards 7 and 8 [overview]>Quality Improvement Network [overview] [flyer]
>Case Study of the Pre-K for All DC Campaign [report, 91 pages]>Birth-to-Three Framework [PPT]
>Modeling the Cost of Child Care in the District of Columbia [report, 35 pages]
>Building Support for Public Funding for Comprehensive Birth-to-Three Supports in the District of Columbia [Bainum Family Foundation public statement]
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Elizabeth Groginsky, Assistant Superintendent of Early Learning for the District of Columbia’s Office of State Superintendent of Education
AFTERNOON EARLY LEARNING SYSTEMS BREAKOUT READINGS
Breakout Session 1: Public-Private Partnerships
[Speaker Bios] [Session Slides]
- Noel Bravo, Senior Director of Strategic Research and Partnership, Bainum
Family Foundation (Facilitator) - Bonnie Mackintosh, Director of Policy Planning and Research, Division of
Early Learning, Office of State Superintendent of Education - Gail Govoni, Director, Office of Early Learning, United Planning Organization
- Syrita Robinson, United Planning Organization HUB Project Manager
Breakout Session 2: Birth-to-Three Policy
[Speaker Bios] [Session Slides]
- Marlana Wallace, Formerly at DC Fiscal Policy Institute (Facilitator)
- Carrie Thornhill, President, DC Early Learning Collaborative
- Jess Giles, Deputy (Education) Committee Director
- Osa Imadojemu, Deputy (Health) Committee Director
Breakout Session 3: Research and Evaluation
[Speaker Bios] [Session Slides]
- Nisha Sachdev, Senior Director of Evaluation, Bainum Family Foundation
(Facilitator) - Brenda Jones-Harden, Professor, University of Maryland’s College of
Education - Pyper Davis, Executive Director, Educare DC
Breakout Session 4: Facility Funds to Support Quality
[Speaker Bios] [Session Slides]
- Arrealia Gavins, Senior Manager of Early Learning Practice, Bainum Family Foundation (Facilitator)
- Bevin Parker-Cerkez, Senior Director of Early Childhood Education, Reinvestment Fund
- Natalie Renew, Senior Managing Director of Education and Family Services, Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC)
- Muluwork Kenea, Business Business Owner/Family Child Care Educator, Amen Family Child Development
Breakout Session 5: Coalition Building and Campaign Work
[Speaker Bios] [Session Slides]
- Sara Watson, Senior Director of Policy, Bainum Family Foundation
(Facilitator) - BB Otero, President, Otero Strategy Group
- La Don Love, Director of Organizing, Safe Places for the Advancement of
Community and Equity in Action (SPACEs In Action)
March 13, 2019, ECFC Member Meeting (Day2) [MAR 12-13 AGENDAS]
OPENING PANEL REFLECTION
In November 2018, ECFC members attended an in-depth study tour in Honolulu examining the way that culture and language is a cornerstone of program design, among many other lessons. ECFC Members Isabelle Hau and Vinice Davis, from Omidyar Network, reflected on lessons from the Hawaii trip in the blog: EC in the state of Hawai’i – Inspiring Focus on Cultural Equity, Inter-generational change, System Change and Most Underserved Children.
On March 13th, our opening panel reflected on our DC deep dive using themes from the Omidyar reflection blog. [read the blog]
Panelists:
Shannon Riley-Ayers, Nicholson Foundation, NJ
Al Castle, Samuel N and Mary Castle Foundation, HI
Barbara Chow, Heising-Simons Foundation, national based in CA
BB Otero, consultant to Bainum Foundation [Moderator]
Philanthropic Updates
Attendees: Contact ECFC for a Matrix of Initiative Updates and Contact information.