This paper highlights models of public, dedicated funding for early childhood to show the variety of creative financing mechanisms that states and localities have used to protect investments in early childhood from reallocation or reduction. The featured examples were selected for their focus on child care (an area of critical need in Louisiana) and their feasibility, both legally and politically, in the state. A range of models at both the state and local levels are discussed, with the hope that they will inspire and spark creativity to implement something similar in Louisiana, if not an exact replication.