September 17, 2025 State Strategies for Sustained Investment in Kids: A Landscape of Dedicated Funding
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 more than 400 federal funding streams that support children and youth, as well as policy and funding changes that may affect these funding streams.
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.
Video The 2024 Election: Lessons Learned and the Path Forward for Voter-Approved Children’s Funds Advocates and experts share insights into the campaign processes, successes, and challenges behind ballot measures to create voter-approved children's funds.
Publication A Perfect Match for Child Care: Louisiana Case Study How Louisiana’s state and local policymakers and advocates are working to increase financial investments and available quality child care.
Publication Funding Out-of-School Time Programs—Now and in the Future A guide for finding sustainable federal, state, and local funding sources for out-of-school time programs.
Publication Last Vote to First Dollar Toolkit An implementation toolkit to help leaders of new voter-approved children's funds set their funds up for success
Publication Tracking the Flow of Federal Funding for Children and Youth An interactive chart that illustrates how federal funds flow through agencies and into communities
Publication From Cradle to Career: Understanding the Federal Government’s Investment in Young People Fact sheet of findings from our federal funding database of more than 280 federal funding streams and counting.
Video Funding Our Kids: Understanding the Federal Government’s Investments in Children and Youth A look at our federal funding streams database, which can help communities identify other sources of federal funding to tap after federal relief dollars expire.
Video 2022 Ballot Measure Allows Whatcom County to Play Greater Role in Supporting Children and Families Whatcom County Executive Satpal Sidhu talks about the county's Healthy Children’s Fund.
Video Madison Youth Workers Say We Must Invest in Kids’ Curiosity to Help Them Succeed Two career youth workers share their perspectives for helping young people succeed.
Video How to Build Sustainable Funding for Kids: The Case for Children’s Funding Coordinators This webinar breaks down how children’s funding coordinators can champion meaningful and sustainable funding for children and youth in your communities.
Video Investing Early in Child Well-Being Gives King County Kids the “Best Start” Our interview with Dow Constantine, executive of King County, WA, since 2009.