The Alliance for Early Success (the Alliance) announced today that five states have been selected for Child Care NEXT, an initiative to support in-state coalitions that are ready to mount long-term campaigns to achieve transformative change in their state’s child-care policies and funding.
After an extensive application and review process, coalitions for the following states have been chosen:
Colorado
Lead Organizations: Colorado Children’s Campaign, Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition
Louisiana
Lead Organizations: Louisiana Policy Institute for Children, Wilcox Academy of Early Learning
New York
Lead Organizations: Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy, Alliance for Quality Education, The Children’s Agenda
Oregon
Lead Organization: Family Forward Oregon
Virginia
Lead Organization: Virginia Promise Partnership
Groups from 36 states submitted proposals, and the five selected states will receive deep, ongoing support to develop and implement campaigns that achieve transformative state child-care policy. This includes multi-year funding as well as access to national expertise and peer support from other states in the group.
Planning for this initiative began in 2020 with funding from Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company created by Melinda French Gates, and it has received additional support from Imaginable Futures, Spring Point Partners, the Richard W. Goldman Family Foundation, and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
“Child care is in desperate need of a demonstration that moves beyond tinkering around the edges and shows the powerful ripple effect that a bold change can have in economic vitality and family well-being. And states are where those kinds of creative policy solutions are born and proven.”
Helene Stebbins,
Executive Director, Alliance for Early Success
Child Care NEXT is organized by the Alliance — a 50-state early childhood policy advocacy nonprofit — and is guided by a steering committee of 15 national policy and grassroots organizations. The concept was originally developed by Elliot Haspel, Program Officer for Education Policy and Research at the Robins Foundation in Richmond, Virginia.
Child Care NEXT aims to demonstrate how major structural change in state Early Care and Education (ECE) policy can make fundamental differences for children, families, and the economic vitality of their communities and states.
- Get more information about the selected state teams.
- Get more information about Child Care NEXT.
- Read the recent editorial, Treating Child Care Like Early Learning Means Funding Child Care Like Early Learning.
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