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. ...
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Tag: Collaboratives
Investing in Power Building for Child Care: Raising Child Care Fund Deep Dive for Funders
The Raising Child Care Fund (RCCF), a project of the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, is a group is made up of long-term funders committed to early childhood who...
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Acting Boldly in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examples from Grassroots Organizations Funded by the Raising Child Care Fund
April 22, 2020 (Updated May 5, 2020) By Rachel Schumacher, Project Manager, Raising Child Care Fund Foundations are starting to understand the immediate and longer-term...
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Raising Authentic Voices for Child Care: What is the New Raising Child Care Fund Learning about Grassroots Organizing? April 7, 2020
By Rachel Schumacher, Project Manager, Raising Child Care Fund Foundations committed to promoting equity and economic justice are looking for innovative and effective approaches to...
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Weekly COVID-19 Calls for EC Funders
As the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly surfaced urgent needs for young children, their families and laid bare the fragility and inequity of the systems that serve...
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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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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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