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Resource Collection: Fiscal Strategies: Efficiencies, Innovations, and Revenue Generation

These resources help state leaders make the best use of their current funding and learn new ways to generate revenue to support the prenatal to five early childhood system.

Despite compelling evidence that the early years set the foundation for children’s health and future development, including educational success, early childhood programs and services continue to be drastically underfunded. As a result, capacity fails to meet demand and the programs and services are unstable.

This collection of resources presents information and strategies to help state leaders improve the fiscal health of their early childhood system by making more efficient use of current funding streams and generating new sources of revenue.

What is a Shared Services Alliance?

Website June 1, 2021

The business model for small child care programs is fundamentally flawed, but banding together may help providers operate more efficiently and reach the scale they need to weather financial storms. Shared Services is one approach that is working. The Opportunities Exchange website, dedicated to helping the early childhood field achieve financial sustainability and strong child outcomes through shared services, offers many resources about shared services.

Defining Staff Family Child Care Networks

Infographic April 1, 2021

A staffed family child care network is an organization that offers home-based child care a menu of quality improvement services and supports including technical assistance, training and/or peer support delivered by a paid staff member. This infographic illustrates the leadership and services offered in various tiers of staff family child care networks.

Defining Policy Drives Practice: Building the Roadmap for Staffed Family Child Care Networks

Report February 1, 2021

This issue brief from Opportunities Exchange (OppEx)explores how to reinvent the early care and education (ECE) sector in a post-pandemic world and what role home-based care can play. OppEx believes that home-based child care is essential and that policy that bolsters provider networks— commonly referred to as Staffed Family Child Care Networks is a foundational strategy to ensure the ongoing supply of quality home-based care.

Financing Pre-Natal to Three Services Local Approaches

Report December 31, 2019

Even with strapped budgets, communities are finding ways to provide new capital for initiatives that promote healthy environments in which children can live, learn, and play. This report profiles a group of communities across the country that have made tangible progress in creating new local PN-3 financing solutions, using different strategies.