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...
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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...
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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...
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What’s Next for Child Care: Paths to a Sustainable and Equitable Recovery
On this week’s COVID-19 peer call for EC funders, we considered paths to sustainable and equitable child care recovery and the role of Community Development...
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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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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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