The Alliance for Early Success is a 50-state resource for early-childhood advocates as they pursue the big, sustained impact that will ensure every child in every state, birth through age eight, has an equal chance to grow, learn, and succeed.
Lori McClung of Advocacy & Communication Solutions and Jason Sabo of Frontera Strategy provided clear and actionable advocacy and lobbying guidance that will help advocates achieve policy change and—more important—help dispel the reluctance and discomfort that many c3s (and many of their funders) have around policy advocacy.
“Racial inequity is a problem of bad policy, not bad people,” says best-selling author Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. On the heels of the election, we’ll hear about racist and antiracist policy, and will get answers to questions posed by state early childhood advocates about state policy.
EDITORIAL Olivia Allen, Assistant Director of Strategy at Children’s Funding Project and Co-Founder and Director at Children’s Funding Accelerator says an economic downtown is a fine time to ask for expanded funding for early childhood programs.
Alliance allies were joined by the Children’s Funding Project for an important conversation about funding streams and discussed ways to advocate for both a bigger slice—and a bigger pie.
As we turn our focus from emergency child care to building a strong early care system for the future, it
The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) has released an updated set of Early Childhood State Policy Profiles that provides a two-generation view of current policies affecting children birth through age eight. The profiles give crucial visibility into each state’s progress in early care and education, health, and parenting and family economic supports.
Lisa Klein, stepping down after more than a decade as Executive Director of the Alliance for Early Success, leaves an indelible mark on the organization — and early childhood policy advocacy.
In response to a growing concern among state advocates about the state of federal child care relief, the Alliance convened some of the issue’s leading national advocacy organizations for a federal child care update and guidance on what site advocates can do next.
This Alliance for Early Success National Issues>State Action featured dynamic presentations by Allison Blake, CEO of Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut and former commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Children and Families and Jeremy Kohomban, President and CEO of The Children’s Village and President of Harlem Dowling. Both are leading figures in child welfare practice and policy.
In a keynote presentation and then in a smaller discussion group with state early childhood advocates, nationally recognized birth-equity voice Dr. Joia Crear-Perry spoke powerfully on structural racism as a key driver of high rates of Black infant and maternal mortality.
