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In Vermont, A Decade-Old Campaign Winds Down and Reflects on Progress

December 12, 2025

In 2015, Let’s Grow Kids, a statewide advocacy organization, was launched in Vermont with a clear goal: secure affordable access to high-quality child care for the state’s families by 2025. Let’s Grow Kids has now officially ended its operations, and that is by design. The organization was designed from the start to be a time-limited, ten-year endeavor to reach the unprecedented outcome it achieved in Act 76, which passed in 2023.

Alliance Hosting Webinar on New Mexico’s History-Making Universal Child Care Win

December 9, 2025

Join the Alliance for Early Success to hear about the solutions New Mexico policymakers chose to implement over more than a decade, and the advocacy strategies that influenced them. Guests include Elizabeth Groginsky, Secretary, New Mexico Department of Early Childhood Education and Care; Matthew Henderson, Executive Director, OLÉ Education Fund; and Jacob Vigil, Chief Legislative Officer, New Mexico Voices for Children.

A Growing Number of States Are Turning to Dedicated Funding for Young Children

November 18, 2025

Alliance responsive support provider Children’s Funding Project is helping advocates across the country win dedicated streams of public financing to support young children. Establishing dedicated funding for ECE can be an effective way to ensure these programs don’t get left out during the budget process.

A New Endowment Aims to Transform Connecticut’s Early Education System

August 13, 2025

Connecticut’s Early Childhood Education Endowment, seeded with an initial $300 million investment, marks the culmination of years of work by early education advocates fighting for sustainable, long-term funding.

Montana Advocates Win Historic, Bipartisan New Revenue Stream for Early Childhood

July 15, 2025

After years of advocacy, Zero to Five Montana—along with other advocates, parents, and providers—has succeeded in passing a new early childhood endowment: the new Early Childhood Special Revenue Account.

Attention Philanthropy: The Front Line in the Fight for Children and Families Just Moved to the States

July 8, 2025

As state policymakers work to address the huge budget shortfalls created by the federal government’s enactment of H.R. 1, state early childhood policy advocates are the next line of defense. And they need big investments in capacity to get the job done.

Nebraska Advocates Use Innovative Financing and Engagement to Expand Home Visiting

January 30, 2025

After working with Alliance Responsive Support providers at the Georgetown Center for Children and Families, advocates uncovered a new funding stream for home visiting, which ultimately nearly doubled the state’s available home visiting funds.

New Alliance 50-State Report Shows Progress and Power Building at State Level in 2024

January 27, 2025

Each year, the Alliance for Early Success surveys early childhood policy advocates representing all 50 states and the District of Columbia to create its annual 50-State Early Childhood Policy Progress and Landscape Report. The 2024 report, released in January, shows that support for state early childhood policies and funding continued to be strong, with policymakers from every region and political landscape acting to improve their early childhood policies.

Advocates in Wyoming Tap Shared Values to Win New Funding for Developmental Preschools

November 27, 2024

Child care advocates in Wyoming are celebrating a major legislative victory. After years of setbacks, the state secured the most funding for developmental preschools in over a decade. The passage of SF 19 marks a significant shift. The Wyoming Women’s Foundation, who advocated for the bill’s passage, credits a new messaging approach and strategy to its success.

Virginia Coalition Turns Child Care NEXT Lessons into Big Child Care and Early Ed Wins in 2024

September 3, 2024

Virginia advocates have have turned the Child Care NEXT principles and support into a string of wins for children, including, in the 2024 session, an historic commitment by the governor and legislature that means $1.1 billion will be available for child care services for low to moderate income families over the next two years.

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