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…

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…

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…

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…

ECFC and the Early Relational Health Funders Community hosted a Child Health Philanthropy Networking Event at the 2025 Grantmakers in Health conference: Babies, Parents, and Families, Oh My! As families with young children face continuing and new challenges, how can…

Our current context has been described as a polycrisis – a “larger kind of instability… or … disequilibrium” caused by “[d]ozens of environmental, social, technological, and economic stressors . . . interacting with increasing velocity. Their combined impact is causing unpredictable future…

In the United States, 1 in 4 children live in immigrant families and are facing heightened risks due to the rise of anti-immigrant policies and a hostile political climate. Beginning with the administration’s revocation of the sensitive locations guidance, which…

The Early Relational Health (ERH) Funders Community and the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative (ECFC) hosted this exclusive funders-only conversation with researchers from a world-leading study focused on early relational health and many related topics. The COMBO Initiative has been following…

The Campaign for Grade Level Reading (CGLR) partnered with Hispanics in Philanthropy to host a Funder-to-Funder Conversation exploring the role that philanthropic organizations and collaboratives can play and are playing to mitigate the negative impact of changing immigration policies and…

Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, Grantmakers for Education and The Philanthropic Collaborative for Education hosted this timely check-in on federal and state actions affecting education and civil rights and an exploration of what’s most needed from and by philanthropy. This briefing…