Building Power in the Midst of a National Crisis
March 5, 2021
The pandemic exposed to the nation what early childhood stakeholders already knew: child care sits at the nexus of racial, gender, and economic injustice.
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 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).
ECFC Members
The A. D. Henderson Foundation
Vermont Office
Bainum Family Foundation
Bethesda, MD
Ballmer Group
Bellevue, WA
Better Way Foundation
Minneapolis, MD
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Seattle, WA
Brady Education Foundation
Chapel Hill, NC
Buffett Early Childhood Fund
Omaha, NE
The Burke Foundation
Princeton, NJ
C.E. and S. Foundation, Inc.
Louisville, KY
Connecticut Early Childhood Funders Collaborative
Hartford, CT
Commonwealth Children’s Fund
West Newton, MA
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Los Altos, CA
Einhorn Collaborative
New York, NY
The Esther A. and Joseph Klingenstein Fund, Inc.
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 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
Maher Charitable Foundation
Florham Park, NJ
Massachusetts Early Childhood Funder Collaborative
Boston, MA
Mimi and Peter Haas Fund
San Francisco, CA
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Westlake Village, 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
Robins Foundation
Richmond, VA
Rodel Foundation of Delaware
Wilmington, DE
Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation
Honolulu, Hawaii
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Mountainview, CA
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
Wellborn Baptist Foundation
Evansvillie, IN
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
The Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund
Baltimore, MD
ECFC Member News
National Day of Racial Healing
January 15, 2021
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
Start with Equity: 14 Priorities to Dismantle Systemic Racism in Early Care and Education
December 18, 2020
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
Buffet Early Childhood Fund Leader Among 2020 Inclusive Leader Awardee Recipients
December 5, 2020
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
Three Trimesters to Three Years: Promoting Early Development
December 4, 2020
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
Voters Approve Progressive Universal Preschool policy in Multnomah County, OR
November 30, 2020
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,
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