Bay Area Early Childhood Funders

The Early Childhood Funders (ECF) is an informal affiliation of Bay Area foundations, public funders and private donors focused on improving grantmaking effectiveness in the early childhood field. Membership in ECF is voluntary, members meet three to four times a year to broaden their knowledge of the early childhood field, share information, engage in dialogue, and participate in joint funding activities to improve the lives of young children and their families.

General information about ECF and its major projects, as well as resources and reports are available on this website as well as information about the 1997-2002 Quality Child Care Initiative. ECF is a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives.

ABOUT ECF

• ECF Brochure
• ECF membership list
• Presentations
• ECF 2021 Survey Results
• Donate Now
  

ADDITIONAL ECF PROJECTS

• Racial Equity in Grantmaking
• The Value of Play Resources
• Messaging/Policy Project
• Immigration Resources
• Engaging Business to Champion Early Care and Education
• Quality Child Care Initiative 1997-2002
  

RACIAL EQUITY IN GRANTMAKING

In 2021, ECF embarked on a path to more fully address and elevate racial equity in early childhood philanthropy. ECF is hosting a series of safe-space Learning Sessions for its members, developed a Racial Equity Framework to guide its work, and began to collect resources for ECF members interested in furthering their own racial equity work. ECF is committed to placing intentional focus on racial equity in all of its activities.

• Early Childhood Funders Racial Equity Framework – January 2022
  
  
• Racial Equity Resources
  
  
• ECF July 28, 2021 Learning Session: Liberatory Designs and Strategic Thinking
  
  
  • Racial Equity and Strategy--ECF
    
    
• ECF April 30, 2021 Learning Session: Grantee/Community Engagement Conversation
  
  
  • Audio (click to play or right-click to download)
    
    
  • Video (click to play or right-click to download)
    
    
  • Families Lead California PowerPoint
    Bay Area Early Childhood Funders
    PowerPoint format
    
    
• ECF March 18, 2021 Learning Session: Racial Equity in Grantmaking Conversation #1
  
  
  • Audio (click to play or right-click to download)

 

PRESENTATIONS

2023

Local Children’s Funding Initiatives

• ECF Jan 25 meeting audio (click to play or right-click to download)
  
  
• Federal State Policy Brief
  Child Care Law Center
  PDF format
  
  
• Funding the Next Generation: Overview
  PDF format
  
  
• Monterey County – lessons learned
  PDF format
  
  

2022

Helping Families Make Ends Meet

• ECF Oct 13 meeting audio (click to play or right-click to download)
  
  
• Cash Based Financial Strategies
  Economic Security Project and GRACE/End Child Poverty
  PDF format
  
  
• Income Support for Children
  GRACE/End Child Poverty
  PDF format
  
  
• Hope for Children Act
  GRACE/End Child Poverty, End Child Poverty in CA and others
  PDF format
  
  
• End Child Poverty 2022 Budget Ask
  End Child Poverty in CA
  PDF format
  
  
• Federal State Policy Brief
  Child Care Law Center
  PDF format
  
  

Early Childhood Educator compensation strategies

• ECF May 12 meeting audio (click to play or right-click to download)
  
  
• ECE compensation strategies
  Center for the Study of the Child Care Workforce
  PDF format
  
  
• Practitioners’ Voice
  CA Fund
  PDF format
  
  
• Federal and State Policy Brief
  Child Care Law Center
  PowerPoint
  
  

Universal Transitional Kindergarten Expansion

• ECF January 26 Meeting Audio (click to play or right-click to download)
  
  
• UTK Facts
  CA Strategies
  PDF Format

2021

The Urgency of Now: Dual Language Learners

• ECF October 7 Meeting Audio (click to play or right-click to download)
  
  
• DLL Practitioner’s Perspective
  SEAL
  PDF Format
  
  
• DLL Policy Perspective
  Early Edge
  PDF format
  
  
• DLL in action (4 minute video)
  
  
• Multilingual Learning Toolkit website
  Early Edge

COVID-19’s impact on social emotional development

• ECF May 20 Meeting Audio (click to play or right-click to download)
  
  
• A New Normal: Supporting Recovery and Reimagining the Future for Young Children in California
  Children’s Partnership
  PDF format

Racial Equity in Grantmaking

• ECF January 28 Meeting Audio (click to play or right-click to download)
  
  
• Early Childhood Funders Meeting: Racial Equity in Grantmaking
  Elena Chávez Quezada, San Francisco Foundation
  PowerPoint format
  
  
• Building Back for Equity Guidance to Inform 2021 Early Childhood Grantmaking
  A joint project of the Heising-Simons Foundation, The Education Trust, and The Bridgespan Group
  
  
• Trust Based Philanthropy Framework: An Approach
  Trust Based Philanthropy Project
  
  
• The Equity Manifesto
  PolicyLink

2020

The Impact of COVID-19 on Early Childhood Services

• ECF Meeting Audio (click to play or right-click to download)
  
  
• Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
  Power point presentation
  
  
• BAHIA, Inc.
  Power point presentation
  
  
• Children’s Defense Fund-CA
  Power point presentation
  
  

• California Child Care in Crisis: The Escalating Impacts of COVID-19 as California Reopens
  https://cscce.berkeley.edu/california-child-care-in-crisis-covid-19/ (our latest study)
  
  
• Is child care safe when school isn’t? Ask an early educator
  https://cscce.berkeley.edu/is-child-care-safe-when-school-isnt-ask-an-early-educator/
  
  
• Child care teachers are essential workers—let’s treat them that way (Infographic)
  https://cscce.berkeley.edu/child-care-teachers-are-essential-workers-lets-treat-them-that-way/ (an infographic)
  
  
• Racial Wage Gaps in Early Education Employment
  https://cscce.berkeley.edu/racial-wage-gaps-in-early-education-employment/

Using Data to Improve Child Outcomes

• Readying Our State: How Kindergarten Readiness Inventories Can Benefit California
• Kindergarten Readiness: Equity Considerations

California’s Master Plan for Early Learning and Care

• May 8, 2020, PDF format
• May 8, 2020, Audio recording

Governor Newsom’s Vision for Early Care and Education in California

• Kris Perry, deputy secretary for early childhood development of the California Health and Human Services Agency and senior advisor to the Governor on implementation of early childhood development initiatives

2019

California’s Changing Demography and Implications for Early Care and Education

• California Demographics: Achieving Equity for California’s Children
  PERE USC Program for Environmental & Regional Equity
  October 17, 2019, PDF format
  
• Snapshot of California’s Early Childhood Workforce
  Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, UC Berkeley
  October 17, 2019, PowerPoint format
  
• Early Childhood and Social Safety Policies for Young Children and Child Care Workers
  Caroline Danielson
  October 17, 2019, PowerPoint format
  
• Policy Brief
  Child Care Law Center
  October 17, 2019, PowerPoint format

Trauma-Informed Practice

• Trauma Informed Practice for Early Childhood
  Julie Nicholson & Julie Kurtz
  May 23, 2019, PowerPoint format
  
• Trauma Informed Practice/ACEs
  ACEs Study
  May 23, 2019, PDF format
  
• Stress and Early Brain Growth/Understanding ACEs
  Community & Family Services Division, Spokane Regional Health District
  May 23, 2019, PDF format
  
• Trauma Informed Practice for Early Childhood: Building Resiliency
  First 5 Contra Costa
  May 23, 2019, PowerPoint in PDF format
  
• Trauma-Informed Practices for Early Childhood Educators: Relationship-Based Approaches that Support Healing and Build Resilience in Young Children 1st Edition
  Julie Nicholson, Linda Perez, & Julie Kurtz
  May 23, 2019, Book format (links open Amazon)

Policy and Advocacy

• Lifting Children Out of Poverty
  Task Force report
  February 7, 2019, PDF format
  
• Governor’s Proposed Pro-Kid Budget
  Children Now
  February 7, 2019, PDF format
  
• Pro-Kid Agenda
  Children Now
  February 7, 2019, PDF format
  
• Setting A Medi-Cal Child Healthy Quality Agenda
  Children Now
  February 7, 2019, PDF format
  
• Screening Kids from Birth – 5 for Trauma
  Children Now
  February 7, 2019, PDF format
  

2018

The Next 20 Years for Early Childhood

• Using Linked Data to Shape Outcomes
  Children’s Data Network
  October 18, 2018, PDF format
  
• What is linked administrative data?
  Children’s Data Network
  October 18, 2018, two-minute online animation

A Life Course Framework for Improving the Lives of Disadvantaged Populations

• Life Course Framework for Improving the Lives of Disadvantaged Populations
  Arnold Chandler, Forward Change
  May 22, 2018, MS PowerPoint format
  
  
• An Alliance for California’s Kids
  By Moira Kenney, First 5 Association
  February 7, 2018, MS PowerPoint format
  
  
• Cradle to Kindergarten: A New Plan to Combat Inequality
  By Ajay Chaudry, Taryn Morrissey, Christina Weiland, and Hirokazu Yosikawa
  February 7, 2018, PDF format

2017

Immigration Reform and its Impact on Children

• The Science of Early Childhood
  By Professor Alison Gopnik
  October 5, 2017, PDF format

• Choose Children (formerly CA Leaders for Children) Poll Results
  By Silicon Valley Community Foundation
  October 5, 2017, PDF Format

• Messaging This Moment: A Handbook for Progressive Communicators
  By Anat Shenker-Osorio (ASO Communications), the Center for Community Change and the Open Society Foundations
  October 5, 2017, PDF Format

California Leaders for Children -- 2018 Gubernatorial Campaign

• California Leaders for Children -- 2018 Gubernatorial Campaign
  By Silicon Valley Community Foundation
  May 23, 2017, PDF format

• Legal Issues for Children and Families
  By Abigail Trillin
  May 23, 2017, PDF format

• The Impact of Trauma on Children and Families
  By Laura Valdez
  May 23, 2017, PDF format

The Science of Early Childhood

• Prenatal to 8 Convergence: Keeping Early Childhood at the Center of Early Childhood Systems Reform
  By Julie Nicholson, Ph.D.
  February 9, 2017, PDF format

• Leading PreK Learning Communities
  National Association of Elementary School Principals
  February 9, 2017, PDF format

• Tying ECE More Closely to Schooling
  Robert Halpern, Erikson Institute
  February 9, 2017, PDF format

2016 and previous presentations

• List of older presentations prior to 2017

For more information about the Early Childhood Funders please email us at earlychildhoodfunders@gmail.com or call 510-918-6381.

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