The Raising Child Care Fund is an initiative of ECFC that pools private foundation dollars to give grants to groups that lift up the voices of families, early educators, and allies—working alongside them to build powerful coalitions to transform child care and expand equity.
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Day Without Child Care: How D.C. Mayor Bowser’s 2025 Budget Is Bad For Families And The Economy
Ladon Love wrote an op ed in NewsOne about Mayor Bowser’s 2025 Budget Cuts that affect child care costs, and says this, “There is no other way to say it: Divesting from child care is bad for families, bad for child care providers, bad for…
Byron child care workers share industry concerns on National Day Without Child Care
Kids Count On Us, a statewide coalition of community-based childcare providers, teachers, and families built by ISAIAH led advocates in rallying with state senators, marching through the capitol building, and meeting with Governor Tim Walz to discuss their funding demands.
The Biden Administration wants to lower child care costs. But West Virginia needs to come up with more money to help implement the program.
Tiffany Gale, the owner of Miss Tiffany’s in West Virginia, is just one example of a child care provider at risk of closing down if fewer families don’t qualify for subsidies. A White House plan capped child care costs for parents who receive subsidies. West…
Guest opinion: Alabama must value children and families enough to invest in child care
At the Alabama Institute for Social Justice, we believe that with targeted, systematic shifts in how we treat child care, we can expand access to more parents while also valuing the work that Black women do as they care for other families’ children. – Lenice…
Child Care Providers Reveal Empty Promises, False Narrative from Alabama Department of Human Resources
“We know the market rate survey is a failed tool. It does not get to the true cost of child care, and it creates a schism in the system as to who gets certain rates,” said Lenice Emanuel, Executive Director of the Alabama Institute for Social Justice….
Government shutdown averted for now
A SPACEs In Action displays a banner reading “Congress Doing Your Job: No Government Shutdown” near the U.S. Capitol building on September 29, 2023 in Washington, DC.
Workers Are About To Get Hit Hard By The Child Care Funding Crisis
“Child care workers are development specialists. They’re highly trained. They have lesson plans, they have a curriculum. They’re working on all aspects of development, socioemotional, physical, mental, all of it.” – Amy Jo Hutchinson, Economic Justice Organizer with Rattle the Windows in West Virginia
What is the child care cliff? Its effect on families and caregivers, explained
“If funding goes away, parents are going to be looking at a loss of slots for their children in child care,” says Karin Swenson, the executive director of Meadow Park Preschool and Child Care Center in Rochester, Minnesota, and a member of Kids Count On Us.
Funding Cliff Means Closure Or Tuition Hikes For Child Care Centers Across The U.S.
“Without ARPA funding most of our providers would not have been able to stay in business,” said Tyrone Scott of First Up, a Pennsylvania early education advocacy organization. “Even with those dollars, we still saw almost 2,200 child care providers shut down permanently. If the federal…
