Our Impact
2024 Child Care Innovation Fund Impact Report
The Early Childhood Investment Corporation (ECIC) Child Care Innovation Fund (the Fund) collaborates with national, state, regional and community partners to design, pilot, and scale common-sense, cross-sector solutions that expand
equitable access to high quality, affordable child care for working families. Implementation learnings and data gathered from these investments are used to educate and advocate for scaling promising child care solutions across Michigan. The Fund was founded with a $3.0 million seed investment from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF). Thanks to WKKF’s strategic investment, the Fund has leveraged $15.9 million in public funds and $300,000 in private funds to advance equitable child care solutions. Access the 2024 Impact Report web version.
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Early Care and Education Wage Pilot Case Study & Recommendations Report
ECIC, MiLEAP, TalentFirst and Center for Early Learning Funding Equity collaborated on this report which includes impacts of a pilot program to increase wages for child care professionals to improve child care access and affordability for Michigan families. The report highlights the pilot program’s “substantial positive change” on staffing and quality of care, and its findings will be used to inform additional upcoming efforts, including a second pilot program launching later this year.
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How Michigan’s Economic and Workforce Development Organizations Would Solve the State’s Child Care Crisis
ECIC’s Child Care Innovation Fund collaborated with the Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP), the Policy Equity Group, and the Regional Child Care Planning Coalitions to create the 2024 Regional Coalition Summary Report.
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2024 Family Child Care Networks Pilot Implementation Report
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2024 Early Care and Education Registered Apprenticeships in Michigan Report
In 2023, Early Childhood Investment Corporation published the Early Care and Education Registered Apprenticeships in Michigan Report, a first of its kind state of the state report on early care and education registered apprenticeship (ECE RAPs) in Michigan.
Since the release of the 2023 report, ECIC leveraged a $4 million dollar investment from the Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential’s (MiLEAP) Caring for MI Future initiative to support two sets of grantees to design and scale up ECE RAPs.
Check out the 2024 Early Care and Education Registered Apprenticeships in Michigan Report to learn more about the child care innovation work that is underway in your region!
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Innovations in ECE Compensation Strategies: Lessons from Other State Leaders to Move MI Forward
2023 Child Care Innovation Fund Impact Report
2023 Early Care and Education Registered
Apprenticeships in Michigan Report
The Early Childhood Investment Corporation Child Care Innovation Fund prepared this first of its kind state of the state report on the status of ECE registered apprenticeship in Michigan for the Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP) and the state’s Caring for MI Future initiative. The report identifies and provides an overview of the state’s seven existing ECE registered apprenticeship sponsoring organizations as of April 2023.
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Child Care Innovation Fund 2022 Impact Report
About ECIC’s Child Care Innovation Fund
The Child Care Innovation Fund collaborates with regional and community partners to pilot or scale up common-sense business and financing solutions for child care. Created in 2021 with a seed investment from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Fund invests in innovations designed to benefit employers, working families, child care business owners and early educators.
Grant Recipients
Caring for MI Future ECE Registered Apprenticeship Grant Recipients
Caring for MI Future Family Child Care Network Grant Recipients
Caring for MI Future Apprenticeship Design Grant Recipients
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