ECFC Weekly EC Funders & COVID-19 Sharing and Learning Calls
March 23, 2020
ECFC Weekly Calls, Beginning Thursday March 26th @ 3pm ET ECFC will be hosting weekly calls during which EC funders can share what they are
Supporting Children and Families Across the Country
The Early Childhood Funders Collaborative’s strength is our engaged membership which is uniquely comprised of diverse foundations, in 15 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).Member Foundations
The A. D. Henderson Foundation
Vermont Office
Bainum Family Foundation
Bethesda, MD
Ballmer Group
Bellevue, WA
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Seattle, WA
Buffett Early Childhood Fund
Omaha, NE
The Burke Foundation
Princeton, NJ
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Los Altos, CA
Einhorn Family Charitable Trust
New York, NY
The Ford Family Foundation
Roseburg, OR
Foundation for Child Development
New York, NY
GAR Foundation
Akron, OH
The George Gund Foundation
Cleveland, OH
The Grable Foundation
Pittsburgh, PA
The Grossman Family Foundation
Cos Cob, CT
The Heinz Endowments
Pittsburgh, PA
Heising-Simons Foundation
Los Altos, CA
Imaginable Futures (formerly Omidyar Network)
Silicon Valley, CA
Irving Harris Foundation
Chicago, IL
J.B. & M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation
Chicago, IL
The Kresge Foundation
Troy, MI
Let’s Grow Kids
Burlington, VT
Maher Charitable Foundation
Florham Park, NJ
Mimi and Peter Haas Fund
San Francisco, CA
The Nicholson Foundation
Newark, NJ
The Oregon Community Foundation
Portland, OR
Perigee Fund
Seattle, WA
Rauch Foundation
Garden City, NY
Robert R. McCormick Foundation
Chicago, IL
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Princeton, NJ
Rodel Foundation of Delaware
Wilmington, DE
Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation
Honolulu, Hawaii
Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton
Canton, OH
Stanley H. Durwood Foundation
Kansas City, MO
Stranahan Foundation
Toledo, Ohio
Trust for Learning
Washington, DC
Vanguard
Malvern, PA
Valhalla Charitable Foundation
Woodside, CA
W. Clement & Jessie V. Stone Foundation
Chicago, IL
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Battle Creek, MI
William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
Hamden, CT
William Penn Foundation
Philadelphia, PA
Winer Family Foundation
Charlotte, NC
Recent Member News
Joint PSO Statement: Keep Equity at the Forefront in Philanthropy’s Response to the Coronavirus
March 19, 2020
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
Cross-over from Paid Leave to Child Care: What are Grassroots Groups Learning?
March 10, 2020
ECFC Webinar: March 31, 2020 The Early Childhood Funders Collaborative hosted the first in a series of webinars sharing lessons learned and featuring grantees from
ECFC Fall 2020 Study Tour: Detroit & Flint, MI
February 25, 2020
October 5-7, 2020 In October, ECFC’s Fall Member Study Tour will take us to Detroit and Flint, Michigan where we will explore the intersections of
Growing the Early Childhood Development Funder Community
January 28, 2020
February 20, 2020 – Webinar Dialogue hosted by ECFC, Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s Center for Early Learning and Promise Venture Studio The momentum of interest
ECFC February 2020 Member Meeting
December 3, 2019
February 3-5, 2020 Thanks to the thoughtful guidance of our Racial Equity workgroup, and our February meeting planning committee, ECFC’s February 2020 meeting continued to
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