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Toolkit: Child Care Tax Credits

March 31, 2026

The tools you need to highlight how child care tax credits help make care more accessible and affordable for families nationwide.

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TOOLKIT: Address the Affordability Crisis by Supporting Child Care

March 30, 2026

Tools you can use highlight and share with your network why child care sits at the center of the affordability conversation.

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TOOLKIT: FY27 Appropriations

March 27, 2026

Congress: Please sign on to “Dear Colleague” letters to show your support for early learning and child care funding. These letters build momentum for programs like Head Start, CCDBG, and PDG B-5

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FFYF Capsule Collection: Fiscal Year 2027 Appropriations

March 27, 2026

A one-stop-shop collection of the top facts, resources, and data around the FY27 Appropriations process.

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CAPSULE COLLECTION: Head Start

February 3, 2026

This one-stop-shop collection of the top facts, resources, and data around Head Start and Early Head Start.

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TOOLKIT: End the Shutdown Day of Action – October 29th

October 30, 2025

What an incredible Day of Action! Yesterday, voices nationwide united with a single message to Congress:  Protect Head Start and end the shutdown. Nearly 50 organizations across the country took …

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TOOLKIT: Head Start Awareness Month

October 2, 2025

October is Head Start Awareness Month! Join us as we celebrate this important program that provides education, nutrition, health, and other services to hundreds of thousands of young children every year. …

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Capsule Collection: Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG)

August 27, 2025

What is CCDBG? The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) is a federal program that helps parents with low incomes afford child care while they work or attend school. …

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CAPSULE COLLECTION: Preschool Development Grants Birth Through Five (PDG B-5)

August 19, 2025

In A Nutshell Due to limited budgets and capacity, many states struggle to support the important activities – like data collection, research, infrastructure development, and other quality initiatives – that …

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TOOLKIT: Tell Your Member of Congress – Child Care is Critical!

July 18, 2025

Members of Congress are home for the last time before the September funding deadline — and this is our moment to speak up. Child care is one of the biggest …

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FFYF Capsule Collection: Tax Policy and Child Care

July 12, 2025

In A Nutshell With two-thirds of children ages five and under living in homes where all available parents are working, child care is not optional for most families – it’s …

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TOOLKIT: Protect and Expand the CDCTC

January 29, 2025

We have a major opportunity for child care – but we need your help. Working families with young children urgently need support. At the top of that list: Making it …

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