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Better Together

ECFC members tackle complex early childhood issues in their own states and communities with strong relationships with non-profit and government partners.  They are working to build early childhood systems that feature support for parents, high quality early care and education, and health and mental health care that meets families’ needs. 

ECFC provides a venue for funders interested in early childhood to learn, share, and explore and maximize philanthropy’s in creating equitable and sustainable early childhood systems.  We want to attract more funders to this field, partner with those who fund in related areas like health, economic justice, and K-12 education, and advocate on behalf of children and families.

Priority Areas

ECFC members help decide where our efforts are best applied at any given time. These areas may change as the early childhood landscape changes.
Our current areas of interest include...
  • Child Care
  • Collaboratives
  • Early Childhood Financing
  • Immigrant Children and Families
  • Policy
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    • Get Involved

    Committees

    ECFC programming thrives thanks to the efforts of our members who lead and serve on standing and ad hoc committees which support the Steering Committee and staff on implementing ECFC programming and priorities. Committee participation is open to staff of any ECFC member foundation. Learn more about committees.

    Member Meetings

    ECFC conducts two member meetings per year providing opportunities for:
    • Learning & Networking among ECFC members, prospective members, philanthropic partners
      and top researchers and practitioners.
    • Aligning and Leveraging Resources on priority and emerging issues of interest to ECFC members and the early childhood field at large.
    • Promoting Effective Local, State, and Federal programs and policy by highlighting effective
      and innovate work among early childhood funders.

    State & Local EC Collaboratives

    ECFC provides opportunities for cross-pollinating funder efforts to build philanthropic capacity in early childhood and spread funder resources, practices and expertise to make existing state and local early childhood investments more effective.