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5. Finance Strategically

The resources and tools in this section support developing a plan to sustain collaboration and collaboration priorities and resources to support building a sustainability plan (including using results and evaluation to inform areas to sustain and assessing the most effective collaborative strategies to advance the work). Additional tools support developing a collaboration financing strategy that involves financing the structure and activities that align with the goals of the collaboration.

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Comprehensive Fiscal Strategy Infographic

Infographic June 7, 2022

This brief document explains what a comprehensive fiscal analysis is, why to engage in one, and provides a visual overview of the steps needed to achieve a comprehensive PN-5 system.

Fiscal Vision and Principles

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

Created by Prenatal-5 Fiscal Strategies, this document offers possible vision and principles as well as a strategic frame that details steps leaders can take to achieve their vision. Communities can engage stakeholders around these principles to ensure that new initiatives and policy changes are aligned with these core principles.

Supporting a Comprehensive Approach to a Fiscal Agenda

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

This tool is designed to support you in considering the readiness of your community or state to work on prenatal to five fiscal strategies and to plan next steps in response to the current status, and context, of your state or community. The tool includes questions focused on readiness, including previous fiscal planning work, with prompts to explore and reflect on the work in your state or community. It also discusses next steps to align your work with the comprehensive approach to fiscal strategies and reflection on how to advance a system strategies agenda.

Fiscal Mapping and Analysis

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

This brief document provides and overview of what fiscal mapping is, why and how to engage in the process and how fiscal mapping and analysis can support a comprehensive prenatal to age 5 system.

Financing Prenatal to Three Services

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

This brief tells the story of multiple communities working to cultivate long term investments needed to improve system and service.

Blended-Funding Toolkit

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

This toolkit is designed to provide state advocates and policymakers with strategies, tools, resources and options to make policy choices that facilitate the blending and braiding of funding streams to improve access to and length of children’s participation in full-workday, full-year, high-quality early learning programs that benefit vulnerable young children and working families. Though this tool focuses on child care specifically, sections 2&3 could be of use as examples of mapping current funding streams and considering how blending and braiding should work.

Child Care Technical Assistance Network: Staffed Family Child Care Network Cost Estimation Tool

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

The Family Child Care Network Cost Estimation Tool (CET) is designed to assist state, regional and local organizations in better understanding the costs associated with operating a staffed family child care (FCC) network. The CET can be used to estimate the operating costs for states and communities for services offered by a staffed FCC network. This site contains a a user's guide that provides instructions for the CET.