ARPA Funding Resources for Funders and Nonprofits
CCP is compiling funder resources and information related to the CT state budget and ARPA funding.
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Funder Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Center for Effective Philanthropy's report sheds light on which organizations face the toughest challenges, what is most needed from funders, and what differences in experience are emerging based on characteristics such as organization type and gender of nonprofit leaders.
Pandemic Child Care Relief Justification Briefing and Fact Sheet
The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization advancing policy solutions for low-income people, has developed a Justification Briefing and Fact Sheet with state-by-state estimates of public funds needed by the child care industry during the pandemic to sustain the viability of our providers.
The State of Early Childhood: Can Connecticut's Struggling Family Child Care Providers Fill a 50,000 Child Care Gap Amidst the Coronavirus Recession?
Connecticut Voices for Children released a second crisis response report, as part of a series of reports, that outlines what the state can do to support children and families during and after the C
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Find news about CCP Members and other Funders responding to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Friday, June 12, 2020
NEW YORK, NY -- There is near-universal consensus that early-childhood education programs can break cycles of poverty and lead to lasting upward mobility. But funders say they have always been fragile, and have only become more so due to COVID-19. Early care and education do not receive much public investment compared to K-12 public education. The result is a patchworked system—if you can call it a system—kept afloat by various sources of revenue. Most early care and education providers teetered at the financial edge, with a month or two of reserves on hand even before the crisis. Weeks of closure have likely led to permanent closures for thousands of child care centers.