Funder Collaboration to Engage Business Leaders in Early Learning
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...
View ArticleCollaborating Towards Kindergarten Readiness at Scale: A Funder Group Case Study
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 and Lucile Packard...
View ArticleEC Funder Collaboratives Project Update & Website Content Tour
In 2018, ECFC launched a project to connect state and local early childhood funder collaboratives (Collaboratives), in order to create connections between national, state and local philanthropic...
View ArticleRaising Child Care Fund Selects First Grantees as Part of a New Project to...
The Raising Child Care Fund (RCCF), a project of the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative (ECFC), is pleased to announce its first set of grants to community organizing groups working to increase...
View ArticleValue of Philanthropic Collaborations
A research study from The Bridgespan Group summarizes findings and lessons from a literature review of more than 150 academic research papers, practitioner blogs, and published articles and reports,...
View ArticleHope Starts Here: Detroit’s Early Childhood Partnership
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 efforts,...
View ArticleThe Unique Challenges of Supporting the Early Childhood Sector Through COVID-19
March 19th Webinar, co-hosted by Grantmakers for Education and the Early Childhood Funders CollaborativeIn the fragmented early childhood system, there are a number of challenges in getting targeted...
View ArticleJoint PSO Statement: Keep Equity at the Forefront in Philanthropy’s Response...
Thursday March 19, 2020ECFC has joined nearly 60 other local, state, regional and national philanthropy serving organizations (PSO’s) in a joint statement urging Philanthropy to keep equity at the...
View ArticleECFC Weekly EC Funders & COVID-19 Sharing and Learning Calls
ECFC Weekly Calls, Thursdays @ 3pm ETECFC will be hosting weekly calls during which EC funders can share what they are doing and surface questions to which we can help respond. We envision a mix of...
View ArticleBuilding Parent & Practitioner Power in Child Care
– July 23rd @ 3pm ET – When it comes to child care conversations, too often the voices of parents and practitioners are left out, especially parents and practitioners of color. ECFC and the Robins...
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