ECFC is excited to begin our new year with new incoming Steering Committee Members. With the unanimous vote of our ECFC members, Leadership Development Committee, and ECFC Steering Committee, five …
ECFC Welcomes New Steering Committee Members in 2022 Read More »
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated longstanding systemic and structural inequities in early childhood, particularly for Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and low-income families and providers. Through the remainder of 2020, the pandemic …
Building Back for Equity, Guidance to Inform 2021 EC Grantmaking Read More »
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 features ECFC member responses. There …
Child Care and Early Education Providers Are in Crisis. How Are Funders Responding? Read More »
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 and working together to align …
Hope Starts Here: Detroit’s Early Childhood Partnership Read More »
A Reflection from the Early Childhood Funders’ Collaborative Hawai’i Study Tour by Isabelle Hau, Investment Partner, and Vinice Davis, Venture Partner, Omidyar Network Thanks to the leadership of longstanding Early …
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 at the invitation of David …
Collaborating Towards Kindergarten Readiness at Scale: A Funder Group Case Study Read More »
A conversation with ECFC members: Michelle M. Figlar, The Heinz Endowments; Kristen A. Burns, The Grable Foundation; and Jennifer Stavrakos, William Penn Foundation. Whether you define success for Pennsylvania as …
Funder Collaboration to Engage Business Leaders in Early Learning Read More »
Q & A with Jessie Rasmussen, President, Buffett Early Childhood Fund; ECFC member and former Chair, ECFC Steering Committee What’s the value of ECFC to philanthropists investing in the …
The Value of ECFC to Philanthropists Investing in the Early Years Read More »
What do you see as the most critical policy issues currently facing the early childhood field? I would put fiscal and tax issues at the top of the list. That’s …
Early Childhood Policy Q&A with Marcia Egbert, George Gund Foundation Read More »
What do you see as the most critical policy issues currently facing the early childhood field? Money, money and money. We need to expand, or at least maintain, federal investment …
Early Childhood Policy Q&A – Barbara Reisman, Maher Charitable Foundation Read More »
