ECFC Webinar
ECFC Weekly EC Funders & COVID-19 Sharing and Learning Calls
ECFC Weekly Calls, Beginning Thursday March 26th @ 3pm ET ECFC will be hosting weekly calls during which EC funders can share what they are...
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Tag: Collaboratives
Many states are developing child care plans amidst dynamic discussion about child care financing. This presents an opportunity for grantmakers to work in states to elevate the importance of public funding for child care. ECFC has prioritized child care as a program and policy priority to harness this momentum, and help funders explore child care access, affordability, and quality with an emphasis on building support for public financing for child care.
ECFC Spotlight
Joint PSO Statement: Keep Equity at the Forefront in Philanthropy’s Response to the Coronavirus
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...
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ECFC Webinar
EC Funder Collaboratives Project Update & Website Content Tour
In 2018, ECFC launched a project to connect state and local early childhood funder collaboratives (Collaboratives), in order to create connections between national, state and...
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Member Spotlight
Raising Child Care Fund Selects First Grantees as Part of a New Project to Increase Access to High Quality Child Care
The Raising Child Care Fund (RCCF), a project of the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative (ECFC), is pleased to announce its first set of grants to...
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Member Spotlight
Hope Starts Here: Detroit’s Early Childhood Partnership
For more than a decade, a small local early childhood funders collaborative, led by the Kresge Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, had been meeting...
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Philanthropy News
Value of Philanthropic Collaborations
A research study from The Bridgespan Group summarizes findings and lessons from a literature review of more than 150 academic research papers, practitioner blogs, and...
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