You know wrap-around supports like paid leave, high-quality child care, and accommodations for pregnant workers improves health and well-being for families and children. But what about the business leaders and employers in your community? Are they inspired to create change?…
Every child, regardless of where they come from, what they look like, or where they live, deserves the opportunity to be supported to pursue their dreams and feel their experiences are valued. Culturally and linguistically relevant assessments reflect diverse experiences,…
Oftentimes, at the North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation, we talk about how important it is to have good child care as it pertains to supporting brain development in children, enabling parents to work, and the necessity to compensate early childhood…
As part of NCECF’s efforts to promote the importance of summer learning, we asked Chatham County Schools Superintendent Dr. Anthony Jackson to share his thoughts. Dr. Jackson reminds us that learning can happen anywhere, such as, at home, the library…
Just as we are preparing to celebrate our organization’s ten-year anniversary, with a new logo to start us off, we are excited to share that we have also begun developing a new three-year strategic plan.
We would like to invite…
At the North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation (NCECF), our board members play an integral role in the success of the organization, providing strategic direction, solid governance, financial accountability and oversight, and offering support and guidance to staff. Our board members…
Do you know what R. Riveter, Computerway Food Systems, the Charlotte Bilingual Preschool and the Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity have in common?
They’re all Family Forward NC Certified Employers! Launched in October, our Family Forward NC Employer Certification –…
In the following NCECF 2022 impact report, Launching NC Early Childhood Focused Guides and Resources to Empower Families, Communities and Businesses for Success, you will learn about how launching so much of our work for implementation was an important theme. …
To ensure that the voices and needs of parents, teachers, and providers are heard in conversations about early care and education, we conducted a listening tour of focus groups among these stakeholders across the state. The goal of the listening…
Summer is just around the corner and here at the North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation (NCECF) we’re doing our part to help summer program providers be Summer Learning Superheroes.
Why the emphasis on summer learning? Summer programs are a vital…