• Raise funds to provide competitive compensation, benefits, and advanced job training to help stabilize the child care workforce.
• Provide funding to ECCE providers and programs.
• Be actively engaged in pro-child care policies at the local, state, and national levels, which should focus on ECCE workforce development, enhancing child care subsidy programs, and passing new legislation that helps grow and expand access to high-quality child care. • Create/contribute to more degree-specific scholarships to help offset tuition costs and develop more higher education partnerships to attract more students to the industry to become early child care professionals.. • Utilize federal Child Care and Development Funds, state funding initiatives, and philanthropic funds to create contracts and grants that can help support workforce development as well as target programs that service specific needs or groups of children (like children with special needs). Contracts/grants could be designed to support individual workers (like staff in child care centers) or specific programs or skills (like bilingual staff). They can bolster salaries, improve benefits, and increase opportunities for training and professional development. What Educational Institutions Can Do • Make it more attractive for people to enter early childhood education as a career.
What Philanthropic Organizations Can Do
Partnerships
• Partner with businesses and educational institutions to support ECCE providers/ programs. • Partner with CareerTechs and higher education to secure funding to bring back child care development centers onsite at higher education institutions that offer degrees in child development. Multiple institutions previously offered onsite centers but closed due to the expiration of grant funding.
Support
• Raise funds to support child care for families who struggle to afford it.
• Offer donations to supply food resources and clothing, community building for parents, and specific child care programs to increase access for educators and teen parents.
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