Past Convenings
Access agendas and resources from past Alliance for Early Success gatherings.
2024
Advocacy’s Past, Present, and Future in Conservative-Led States
November 18-20 | Salt Lake City, UT
Alliance state allies from conservative-led states gathered in Salt Lake City in November to think together about how the recent national and state elections will impact their advocacy in the short term and to do some longer-term future forecasting and narrative change work.
Sharing Power and Leadership with Early Childhood Educators in ECE Advocacy
November 13-14 | Seattle, WA
Members of Alliance’s peer learning community on the ECE workforce gathered in Seattle to learn how advocates from Child Care Aware of Washington (CCA) have “flipped the script” by facilitating a process for the past three years that puts early childhood educators in the decision-making role.
New England Regional Early Childhood Advocate Convening
October 29-30 | Springfield, MA
The New England Regional Early Childhood Advocate Convening brought together advocates and funders to facilitate cross-state learning, align advocacy and policy goals, and build relationships. Topics included coalition building, family economic security policy, healthy families policy, and case studies of early childhood advocacy by New England states.
The Alabama Experience
September 24-27 | Montgomery, AL
The Alliance offered state grantee organizations the chance to take a shared journey designed to build their team’s racial equity muscle and catalyze new ways of working back home. Close to 200 advocates gathered in Montgomery, Alabama, for the Alabama Experience, an intensive three days that incorporated the Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Sites.
2023
CONNECT23
October 25-27 | Charlotte, NC
Hundreds of advocates and early childhood policy experts gathered in Charlotte for CONNECT23. The year’s theme—Stronger Advocacy Together—is what CONNECT is all about. We shared strategies, successes, and setbacks with our peers from across the country and strengthened the relationships that we lean on throughout the year.
2022
CONNECT22
November 14-16 | Chicago, IL
After a two-year hiatus, CONNECT returned in 2022. Allies from all 50 states united in Chicago for a long-awaited opportunity to share updates, strategies, and resources.
2019
CONNECT19
October 22-25 | Atlanta, GA
More than 200 Alliance allies gathered in Atlanta to build connections, share successes and setbacks, and learn together—all in support of accelerating their advocacy for state policy that support young children and their families.
National Conference on the Early Care and Education Profession
September 24-25 | Milwaukee, WI
In 2019, the Alliance brought together early care and education advocates, researchers, state leaders and educators together for a national conference about how to better support and advance the ECE profession.
