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....
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Collaboratives
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...
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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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The Unique Challenges of Supporting the Early Childhood Sector Through COVID-19
March 19th Webinar, co-hosted by Grantmakers for Education and the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative In the fragmented early childhood system, there are a number of challenges...
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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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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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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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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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Collaborating Towards Kindergarten Readiness at Scale: A Funder Group Case Study
A new study from The Bridgespan Group explores how a funder collaboration set a fixed goal and continuously evolved its methods to achieve it. Formed...
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State & Local EC Funder Collaboratives: Get Acquainted Webinar
The national Early Childhood Funders Collaborative hosted an engaging kick-off Get Acquainted Webinar to learn more about local and state early childhood funder collaboratives (Collaboratives) around the...
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