Publication Voter-Approved Children’s Fund Profile: King County, WA Best Starts for Kids provides comprehensive support from prenatal development through young adulthood to ensure that every child raised in King County grows up happy, healthy, safe, and thriving.
Publication Voter-Approved Children’s Fund Profile: Denver, CO Denver Preschool Program is available to all Denver 4-year-olds in their last year of preschool before kindergarten and qualifying 3-year-olds, with priority given to families experiencing financial hardships.
Publication Voter-Approved Children’s Fund Profile: Broward County, FL The Children's Services Council of Broward County funds and supports a wide range of programs focused on early childhood education, literacy, health, child abuse prevention, and out-of-school time.
Collection Voter-Approved Children’s Fund Profiles Explore this collection to learn more about the individual voter-approved children's funds across the country.
Publication Voter-Approved Children’s Fund Profile: San Antonio, TX Pre-K 4 SA is a citywide early childhood and family initiative dedicated to expanding access to high-quality, full-day preschool for San Antonio’s 3- and 4-year-olds, with a focus on children from families who have low incomes.
Publication Voter-Approved Children’s Fund Profile: Miami-Dade County, FL The Children’s Trust of Miami-Dade County invests in a wide range of programs focused on early childhood education, health, after-school and summer youth programs, family and parenting support, and continuous learning and quality improvement.
Publication Voter-Approved Children’s Fund Profile: Seattle, WA The Families, Education, Preschool, and Promise Levy was designed to invest $638 million over seven years to child care and preschool, K-12 college and career readiness, and postsecondary access.
Publication Voter-Approved Children’s Fund Profile: Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Preschool Promise supports quality preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds, increases wages for early childhood educators, and ensures that preschool instruction meets high standards.
Publication Voter-Approved Children’s Fund Profile: Multnomah County, OR The purpose of Preschool for All is to create a universal, high-quality, and equitable preschool system for all 3- and 4-year-old children in Multnomah County by 2030.
Video Getting to the Source of State Dedicated Funding for Kids Learn how state dedicated funds can provide sustainable support for child and youth programs outside of the K-12 school day, and hear from advocates about how they successfully secured such funding in their states.
Publication State Strategies for Sustained Investment in Kids: A Landscape of Dedicated Funding Learn how states have successfully created dedicated funding streams for children and youth and the strategies that advocates, policymakers, and community leaders can use to identify viable revenue options.
Video Funders Can Lean Into New Roles To Unlock Public Funding for Kids In this video interview, Nicole Eovino Diebold explains how the C.E. and S. Foundation brought together key leaders from philanthropy and advocacy to create a coordinated approach to funding programs for children and youth in Kentucky.
Video Buell Foundation Shares Real-Time Lessons on Public Funding for Early Childhood Watch our interview with Jason Callegari from Buell Foundation about supporting infusions of new revenue into Colorado's early childhood system to make high-quality child care accessible to all families across the state.
Publication Tracking Social Media Litigation: A Quick Guide for After-School Advocates A tool for youth development, after-school, and summer program advocates to help them understand current litigation against social media companies and find resources for tracking updates in the courts and in their states.
Course Cost Modeling 101: Getting Real About the True Costs of Infant and Toddler Care Learn how to build a cost model that supports child care for children from birth to age 3.
Database Federal Funding Streams for Children and Youth Services This database catalogs the purposes and key characteristics of 304 federal funding streams that support cradle-to-career initiatives.
Course Cost Modeling 101: Getting Real About the True Costs of Child Care Learn how to build a cost model that supports child care providers, educators, children from birth to age 13, and their families.
Video Public Financing in Times of Uncertainty Presenters share strategies for confronting challenges kids' programs and services face during these unstable political times.
Publication Understanding Fiscal Maps Learn what a fiscal map is, why your community should create one, and how to begin.
Publication Travis County Votes “Yes” for Affordable Child Care Advocates in Travis County, TX, won a ballot measure in 2024 that will provide more than $75 million annually to fund services for infants, toddlers, children, and youth.