The pandemic’s impact on families with young children includes not only issues of health and child care, but also access to basic needs. Researchers, funders......
Priority Areas
All of the priority policy issues that face us as a nation have children and families at their heart. Restoring a thriving economy, reducing poverty and improving opportunity, creating living-wage jobs, accessing affordable health care, building a vibrant education system, reforming the immigration and criminal justice systems, and combating global warming to build a sustainable future – are all intricately related to the well-being of children and families. By bringing early childhood issues to the top of the domestic policy agenda, our country can fulfill the promise that every young child brings into the world and fulfill our promise as a nation. ECFC’s programming priorities key areas of interest that have critical policy, as well as practice, implications. Explore our priority areas below.
COVID-19
Philanthropic Responses to Emergency EC & Child Care Needs
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, many states closed child care programs with the exception of limited emergency child care sites – some closing all child......
Child Care and Early Education Providers Are in Crisis. How Are Funders Responding?
ECE programs have always been fragile, and have only become more so due to COVID-19. Many may not survive the pandemic. A recent Inside Philanthropy article......
Child Care
Statement on Relief for Children, Families and Early Care and Learning
August 4, 2020 The Early Childhood Funders Collaborative is a network of 47 national, regional, and local foundations that invest to promote equity in the well-being......
Weekly COVID call: Peer Sharing on Cross-Sector Partnerships on School Reopening
Our July 30th weekly COVID-19 peer sharing call focused on opportunities for cross-sector planning between schools, community organizations, and child care in the school reopening conversations. ......
The Pandemic’s Impact on Families, Children & Early Care Providers
The pandemic’s impact on families with young children includes not only issues of health and child care, but also access to basic needs. Researchers, funders......
Children in Immigrant Families
Children Thrive Action Network: Defending and Supporting America’s Children in Immigrant Families
On July 22nd, ECFC and Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) co-hosted a funders discussion about the new Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN). The mission of CTAN......
The Pandemic’s Disproportionate Impact on Immigrant Children and Families
Co-hosted with The Alliance for Early Success In addition to highlighting the Coronavirus’s disproportionate impact on immigrant children, speakers discussed federal legislation to address the needs......
ECFC Weekly EC Funders & COVID-19 Sharing and Learning Calls
– Thursdays @ 3pm ET – ECFC hosts weekly calls for funders to share COVID-19 responses related to early childhood and child care, and to......
Early Childhood Financing
Philanthropic Responses to Emergency EC & Child Care Needs
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, many states closed child care programs with the exception of limited emergency child care sites – some closing all child......
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......
Child Care and Early Education Providers Are in Crisis. How Are Funders Responding?
ECE programs have always been fragile, and have only become more so due to COVID-19. Many may not survive the pandemic. A recent Inside Philanthropy article......
Early Relational Health
Strengthening Early Relationships and Social and Emotional Health
Our Fall 2019 member meeting began with a pre-session hosted by ECFC’s Early Relational Health Committee exploring two innovative models and approaches to supporting the infant......
Early Relational Health & Racial Equity Workgroups: Joint Book Club Meeting
On Wednesday August 25th, ECFC’s Early Relational Health and Racial Equity Workgroups will host a book club-style discussion on an episode of the “On Being......
Early Relational Health Book Club Meeting: Framing ERH
On Thursday June 25th, the ECFC Early Relational Health Workgroup hosted a “Book Club” Meeting to discuss Building Relationships: Framing Early Relational Health, a new......
Funder Collaboratives
Building Parent & Practitioner Power in Child Care
When it comes to child care conversations, too often the voices of parents and practitioners are left out, especially parents and practitioners of color.......
ECFC Weekly EC Funders & COVID-19 Sharing and Learning Calls
– Thursdays @ 3pm ET – ECFC hosts weekly calls for funders to share COVID-19 responses related to early childhood and child care, and to......
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......
Policy
Statement on Relief for Children, Families and Early Care and Learning
August 4, 2020 The Early Childhood Funders Collaborative is a network of 47 national, regional, and local foundations that invest to promote equity in the well-being......
The Pandemic’s Impact on Families, Children & Early Care Providers
The pandemic’s impact on families with young children includes not only issues of health and child care, but also access to basic needs. Researchers, funders......
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......
Racial Equity
ECFC Racial Equity Workgroup Townhall Meetings – Aug 11 & 25
In 2019 the ECFC Steering Committee assessed progress toward ECFC’s vision of equitable opportunities for all children and concluded that race equity should be a......
Weekly COVID call: Peer Sharing on Racial Equity
On June 4th, ECFC’s weekly COVID-19 peer sharing call focused on Racial Equity. We appreciate so many funders engaging in an honest way about how racial......
Early Relational Health & Racial Equity Workgroups: Joint Book Club Meeting
On Wednesday August 25th, ECFC’s Early Relational Health and Racial Equity Workgroups will host a book club-style discussion on an episode of the “On Being......