To build philanthropic capacity in early childhood and spread funder resources, ECFC engages and shares practices and expertise with local, state and regional EC funder collaboratives. Through its State & Local Collaboratives work, ECFC provides a forum for state and local early childhood funder collaboratives to share with and learn from each other and create connections between national, state and local philanthropic groups.
On March 8, 2018, the ECFC early childhood financing committee hosted a virtual funder briefing on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine’s report Transforming the...
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Sept 10th Webinar Hosted by: The Funders Census Initiative The Funders Census Initiative is pleased to continue their briefing series on census messaging results in partnership with...
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The Decennial Census happens every ten years and it is the only time we count everyone–adults, children and babies, citizens, immigrants, and visitors. Census data...
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A virtual funder conversation about advocacy and systems change strategies Policy research, public will building, message development, grassroots and grasstops engagement. Funders have lots of...
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Webinar Hosted by: InCK Marks Resource Network The...
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Hosted by ECFC’s EC Financing Committee, this webinar: addressed state and local ballot initiatives for children; provided an overview of where progress has been on...
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On December 19, 2018, Media Impact Funders (MIF) hosted a webinar discussion featuring two esteemed members of the MIF network—long-time MIF board member Joy Thomas Moore and The Pittsburgh Foundation’s President...
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On December 12th, ECFC previewed a new interactive mapping tool to support data and information sharing in the field of Early Childhood Care and Education....
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Co-Sponsored with LENA. Three studies published this year have validated the relationship between conversational turns and brain development, reaching similar conclusions in very different ways....
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Co-Sponsored with the BUILD Initiative This webinar reviewed the USDHHS and USED Notice of Funding Available for the BIRTH TO FIVE Preschool Development Grant (PDG), and...
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