Building Power for What Comes Next: Lessons from Grassroots Child Care Organizing Across the States

Join the Raising Child Care Fund (RCCF) for a conversation with grassroots leaders from across the country who are organizing, building power, and advancing child care and social justice in their communities in challenging times.

Drawing from RCCF’s upcoming Impact Report this webinar will explore how grassroots organizations build trust and relationships with people in communities so they can unite during times of crisis. This core strategy helps expand the base of the child care movement, and grow new leaders with skills to secure long-term investment in children, families, and providers. Speakers will share lessons from the frontlines of organizing, discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the movement today, and reflect on what sustained philanthropic partnership makes possible.

Participants will gain insight into how long-term, trust-based investments in grassroots organizing help communities respond to immediate challenges while building the power necessary to achieve lasting systems change.

Introductions:

• Shannon Rudisill, Executive Director, Early Childhood Funders Collaborative
• Rachel Schumacher, Senior Advisor, Raising Child Care Fund

Moderator: Syritha Robinson, Associate Director of Philanthropy and Partnerships, Raising Child Care Fund

Panelists [Bios]

• Cate Blackford, Director of Public Policy, Maine People’s Alliance
• Amy Jo Hutchison, Campaign Director, WV State Moms Force, Workplace Justice, Early Learning, Moms Rising (West Virginia) 
• Tamara Lunan, Director, Care Economy Project, Ohio Organizing Collaborative 
• Ashley Shelton, Founder, President and CEO, Louisiana Power Coalition for Equity and Justice