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October 22, 2025

Early Childhood at Grantmakers for Education

Attending the upcoming Grantmakers for Education 2025 Annual Conference, October 20–23 in Memphis, Tennessee? The conference features multiple sessions focused on early childhood themes, sponsored by and featuring ECFC members’ and partners’ work. Conference registration is required to attend all sessions….

October 16, 2025

Rural, Resilient, and Ready for School: Lessons from Nebraska Children and Families Foundation’s Community and Parent Engagement Initiatives

ECFC and Buffet Early Childhood Fund hosted this discussion on the importance of community and parent engagement in rural communities for effective and equitable solutions to community needs, featuring the Nebraska Children and Families Foundation (NCCF), a statewide platform for…

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October 10, 2025

ECFC Fall 2025 Member Meeting & Alabama Learning Tour

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October 1, 2025

The Rooms Where it Happens: Where the Big Decisions on Early Childhood Policy Will Happen and How to Influence Them

On July 4, President Trump signed One Big Beautiful Bill into law, which slashes multiple vital programs that serve children and families, including health care and child nutrition programs. ECFC, Alliance for Early Success, and the Prenatal to 5 (P-5) Network are collaborating to host a funder…

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September 18, 2025

Advancing State Capacity for Equitable and Sustainable EC Systems: The EC Governance and Finance Project

ECFC hosted this discussion on the importance of early childhood governance as a lever for creating impact, and the role private funders can play informed by lessons from the Early Childhood Governance and Finance Project (ECGFP), a project of the Heising-Simons…

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September 16, 2025

ECFC Alabama Learning Tour Context & Connections

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August 28, 2025

The Budget Reconciliation Act’s Impact on Young Children and Families: Session 1 | Ask Me Anything Office Hour With Experts

On July 4, President Trump signed One Big Beautiful Bill into law, which slashes multiple vital programs that serve children and families, including health care and child nutrition programs. ECFC, Alliance for Early Success, and the Prenatal to 5 (P-5)…

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August 28, 2025

Lessons Learned from ECFC’s work with Black Early Childhood Leaders and Native Communities

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August 20, 2025

Preparing for the Future Now: Counting All Kids in the 2030 Census 

The Decennial Census happens every ten years and it is the only time we count all residents  –adults, children and babies, and citizens and immigrants. Census data informs the allocation of billions of federal, state, and local dollars, and is…

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July 31, 2025

Building Better Futures: Empowering Communities Through Investments in Child Care Facilities

Child care facilities don’t just house programs, they enable the excellent care that drives measurable child outcomes and sustainable program operations. As communities across the nation seek to address the critical shortage of child care, the public and private sectors…

July 24, 2025

Investing in Care Across the Lifespan: Philanthropic Strategies from Childhood to Aging

Funders are invited to join Asset Funders Network for a timely and practical webinar tailored to grantmakers and philanthropic leaders committed to strengthening the care economy—from early childhood to aging and everything in between. As our nation grapples with increasing…

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July 23, 2025

Swept Up: Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System

On May 11th, 2025 – Mother’s Day – masked officers smashed the windows of a family’s car on their way to church and dragged the father out in front of his U.S. citizen wife and three children. Weeks later, ICE…

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