A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research finds that “free college” programs, often called Promise Programs, often “unintentionally” exclude college students raising children. 1 in 5 college students in the United States are raising children. This often means they are juggling school, work and family care responsibilities. Unfortunately, most college Promise Programs…
The Early Childhood Funders Collaborative has launched a new web landing page highlighting information on the young child undercount and funder resources and tools! ECFC Census Landing Page
Watch the webinar here! Policy research, public will building, message development, grassroots and grasstops engagement. Funders have lots of tools in their toolkit! Join funder colleagues to discuss a range of advocacy and systems change strategies used to ensure more children, families and communities thrive. We’ll discuss strategies and lessons learned from a variety of…
Policy and Advocacy Starting Place: Building Public Will Contributed by: Cornelia Grumman, Education Director, Robert R. McCormick Foundation Public will-building strategies are an essential component of systemic reform of early education, and an integral part of our Education Program grantmaking strategy at the Robert R. McCormick Foundation. We’ve approached this from a few angles. First, we work…
Policy and Advocacy Starting Place: Training Community Policy Advocates Contributed by: Bia Vieira, Chief Strategist, Programs, The Women’s Foundation of California 17 years ago, The Women’s Foundation of California realized that if we were ever really going to make positive change on behalf of cisgender and transgender women, non-binary and genderqueer people and transgender men and…
In early 2019, the Roundtable fielded a survey of funders to explore children and family policy priorities and strategies. The results provide insight into some of the ideas most on the minds of funders. We are releasing survey results in a periodic blog post. Policy Opportunities Survey Results — Forms of Policy Advocacy Funding The…
Policy and Advocacy Starting Place: Data Analysis Capacity Contributed by: Noah Berger, Director of Policy Advocacy and Reform, The Annie E. Casey Foundation The Annie E. Casey Foundation is committed to building a brighter future for the nation’s children by developing solutions that strengthen families, build paths to economic opportunity and transform struggling communities into…
In early 2019, the Roundtable fielded a survey of funders to explore children and family policy priorities and strategies. The results provide insight into some of the ideas most on the minds of funders. We are releasing survey results in a periodic blog post. Policy Opportunities Survey Results — Race and Gender Equity Of the…
Policy and Advocacy Starting Place: Coalition Building Contributed by: Nancy Jost, Director of Early Childhood, West Central Initiative For more than 15 years, the West Central Initiative (WCI) has worked to improve early childhood education in 9 counties (Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Pope, Stevens, Traverse, Wilkin) and a native nation (White Earth Nation) in west…
Many charitable foundations are grappling with how to evaluate advocacy. Just how do you figure out which strategies are truly making a difference? How do you know what works? This teasing out of cause and effect, of evaluating the efficacy of advocacy strategies, is the work of monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL). Traditional approaches to…