Serv and Return: Child Care Business Plans
July 13, 2023
A recent exchange on the Alliance listserv turned up several examples and resources about child care business plans.
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.
A recent exchange on the Alliance listserv turned up several examples and resources about child care business plans.
The Alliance for Early Success, a 50-state early childhood policy nonprofit, announced today a $10-million grant from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. The unrestricted investment will fund the launch of the Power Equity Initiative, a bold strategy to grow an influential voice for young children at the state level by catalyzing equitable coalitions in which parents, advocates, practitioners, and other diverse voices work collaboratively to improve policies and increase funding.
As the Alliance for Early Success joins our neighbors across the country in the commemoration of Juneteenth, we also mark the enduring impact of slavery and the ever-present ways it shapes the ways we live today. Racism remains entrenched in our country’s systems – both in our policies and in the comfortable habits that perpetuate inequity.
Since the Child Care NEXT initiative cohort was announced in the summer of 2021, state coalitions have been making foundational progress on their coalitions and transformation plans. This work is about building a large, durable constituency for child care in a state, so much of the early work is on building a coalition infrastructure that aligns with the core principles and collective power milestones of the initiative.
As state teams convened for a cohort gathering and workshop this spring, many were already reporting significant progress in laying the groundwork for such a grassroots constituency for child care.
A key component of the Child Care NEXT model is ensuring the coalition is unified on a collaboratively developed bold vision for transformation. State Child Care NEXT coalitions have made significant progress here, and their clear visions for transformative change have come into focus.
Across the Child Care NEXT states, there have been significant developments in the work to solidify their coalitions with equity and lived experience at the center.
A recent exchange on the Alliance listserv turned up several examples and resources on employers co-investing with states in child care.
The Alliance for Early Success recently formed a new community of practice with a dual focus on early childhood and child welfare issues. Purposeful attention on these cross-cutting issues is important given that young children are most vulnerable for child maltreatment, particularly children under 3, and enter foster care at higher rates than older children.
EDITORIAL As we observe Black Maternal Health Week 2023, Alliance for Early Success Senior Director of Equity and Impact Marquita Little Numan shares her own birthing experience as a Black woman giving birth in Arkansas—and reflects on both the changes and the enduring disparities since her mother gave birth a generation ago.