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Child Care and Early Education Providers Are in Crisis. How Are Funders Responding?
NEW YORK, NY -- There is near-universal consensus that early-childhood education programs can break cycles of poverty and lead to lasting upward mobility. But funders say they have always been fragile, and have only become more so due to COVID-19. Early care and education do not receive much public investment compared to K-12 public education. The result is a patchworked system—if you can call it a system—kept afloat by various sources of revenue. Most early care and education providers teetered at the financial edge, with a month or two of reserves on hand even before the crisis. Weeks of closure have likely led to permanent closures for thousands of child care centers.
The State of Early Childhood: Can Connecticut's Struggling Family Child Care Providers Fill a 50,000 Child Care Gap Amidst the Coronavirus Recession?
Connecticut Voices for Children released a second crisis response report, as part of a series of reports, that outlines what the state can do to support children and families during and after the COVID-19 crisis.
Pandemic Child Care Relief Justification Briefing and Fact Sheet
The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization advancing policy solutions for low-income people, has developed a Justification Briefing and Fact Sheet with state-by-state estimates of public funds needed by the child care industry during the pandemic to sustain the viability of our providers.
Home-Based Child Care Emergency Fund: Sustaining our nation’s diverse home-based child care community
Home Grown and the Reinvestment Fund have developed a toolkit to help sustain and strengthen the home-based caregivers and providers in communities across the country.
Early Childhood Funder Collaborative -- CANCELLED
For members of the Early Childhood Funder Collaborative
Early Childhood Funder Collaborative - Cancelled
For members of the Early Childhood Funder Collaborative
ECFC and Alliance for Early Success: Philanthropic Engagement Project
For members of the Early Childhood Funder Collaborative