Bay Area Early Childhood Funders

 

Administrative support for the Bay Area Early Childhood Funders
provided by Action Alliance for Children

 

The Early Childhood Funders (ECF) are an informal affiliation of foundations, donors, and corporations with a common interest in funding projects that support young children and their families. Membership is voluntary, members meet three to four times a year to broaden their knowledge of the early childhood field and to share insights, grant-making opportunities and informational resources.
Click here for the PDF brochure about the Early Childhood Funders.
Click here for a membership list.

 

For more information about the Early Childhood Funders please email us at
ecf@4children.org or call 415-733-8576.

 

Help support the Early Childhood Funders by offering a donation through the Community Initiatives website.
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In the interest of providing information to ECF members, the following reports and articles are available on this website as well as information about the Quality Child Care Initiative.

 

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Quality Child Care Initiative: A Project of the Bay Area Early Childhood Funders

In 1997, the ECF created the Quality Child Care Initiative (QCCI) to promote the need for quality child care in response to welfare reform. Over five years, in two separate funding rounds, QCCI raised more than $4 million and issued over 80 grants aimed at building a sustainable child care workforce, strengthening advocacy for child care, creating new and improved child care facilities, and making child care more accessible to families.

The following documents and reports describe QCCI activities and lessons learned from the Second Round of grantmaking. The entire report is available, as well as an Executive Summary, and the individual chapters of the report detailing the grantee funding areas. The report from Round One of funding is also available. They are hosted by Action Alliance for Children on behalf of the Early Childhood Funders.

To access pdf documents, you need the Adobe Acrobat reader, which you can download for free. To access PowerPoint or MS Word documents, PowerPoint or MS Word must be installed on your computer.