
Building Power in the Midst of a National Crisis
The pandemic exposed to the nation what early childhood stakeholders already knew: child care sits at the nexus of racial, gender, and economic injustice.
The Early Childhood Funders Collaborative’s strength is our engaged membership which is uniquely comprised of diverse foundations, in 19 states and the District of Columbia. ECFC members range in size, individual reporting investments ranging from hundreds of thousands, to over 400 million per year. Collectively, ECFC members invested over $625 million in early childhood initiatives at the local, state, regional and national levels in 2017 (with more than half report funding at multiple levels).
The pandemic exposed to the nation what early childhood stakeholders already knew: child care sits at the nexus of racial, gender, and economic injustice.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) has designated January 19 as their 5th annual National Day of Racial Healing. ECFC encourages our members and philanthropy colleagues to pause
Grave inequities have long pervaded the education system and affect the lives of millions of children from historically marginalized communities. These inequities begin before birth
December 2020 ECFC is proud to celebrate our member, Portia Kennel, Senior Advisor at the Buffett Early Childhood Fund who is among the 2020 Inclusive
The Fall 2020 issue of The Future of Children journal, Three Trimesters to Three Years: Promoting Early Development, examines the factors that affect a child’s development, beginning
November 2020 Philanthropic partners are celebrating voter approval of a tax measure to fund one of the most progressive universal preschool policies in Multnomah County,