National Advocacy Partners

  • Center for the Child Care Work Force (CCW) advocates for public policy to restructure the early care and education delivery system in order to address workforce recruitment and compensation; created Worthy Wage Day.
  • Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) supports policies that expand resources for child care and early education initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels. The organization studies relationships between child care subsidy systems, Head Start and Early Head Start, state pre-kindergarten programs, and other birth-to-five early education efforts to ensure these systems address needs of children and families.
  • Center on Budget and Policy Priorities covers budget and policy issues of concern to children and families.
  • Child Care and Early Education Research Connections promotes high quality research in child care and early education and the use of that research in policy making.
  • Child Care Aware of America is the national network of more than 850 child care resource and referral centers (CCR&Rs) located in every state and most communities across the US. CCR&R centers help families, child care providers, and communities find, provide, and plan for affordable, quality child care.
  • Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is the leading national nonprofit working to improve public policies and public-private partnerships to eradicate hunger and under-nutrition in the United States. FRAC is a champion of the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP).
  • Library of Congress provides full text of all Federal legislation proposed in the House or Senate.
  • National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) is the nation’s leading public policy center dedicated to promoting the economic security, health, and well-being of America’s low-income families and children.
  • National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC) promotes quality child care by working to strengthen family child care professions.
  • National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children, with particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for children from birth through age 8.
  • National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) conducts academic research to inform policy supporting high-quality, early education for all young children. NIEER provides independent, research-based analysis and technical assistance to policymakers, journalists, researchers, and educators.
  • National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) is a leading advocate for early learning opportunities for children from economically disadvantaged families.
  • Child Care Technical Assistance Network, part of the US Office of Child Care, has resources for parents and child care providers and much more.
  • Zero to Three seeks to provide a strong start in life, envisioning a society that has the knowledge and will to support all infants and toddlers in reaching their full potential.