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Learn how evaluation and continuous quality improvement, when linked to strategy, can build better connections between data, decisions, and actions.
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Topic/Subtopic: Program Integrity and Accountability, Quality Improvement
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
The CCDF Fraud Toolkit is an evolving resource designed to assist CCDF Lead Agencies in increasing program integrity and accountability and decreasing fraud within their child care programs. Provided by the National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability (NCSIA), the toolkit encompasses…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic: CCDF Governance and Leadership, CCDF Prevention and Detection of Fraud, CCDF Program Integrity
Group: National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability
FCC providers will learn how to save more money for retirement and will learn how to invest using the various IRA plans available. The content includes the following:
Identify ways to reduce expenses.
Recognize where to put money to meet short- and long-term goals.
Learn how to prioritize long-…
Resource Type: Webinar
Topic/Subtopic: Program Integrity and Accountability
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
Blogs
Children’s Funding Project Blog (Office of Child Care, n.d.).
This blog provides timely information on innovative strategies to fund children’s initiatives in states and localities. It also shares political and funding news related to children and in-depth explanations of federal, state,…
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Topic/Subtopic: Early Childhood Program Design and Management, Equal Access to Child Care, Family Engagement and Consumer Education, PDG Program Design, Program Integrity and Accountability, Promoting Children's Development, Protecting Children's Health and Safety, Quality Improvement, Stable Financial Assistance to Families
Group: Not Applicable
A financial forecast is an estimate of future financial outcomes for an initiative or project. This guide provides basic information on forecasting as well as two examples to assist with forecasting a financial strategy in early childhood system building. Financial forecasting is the practice of…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic: Early Childhood Program Design and Management, Equal Access to Child Care, Family Engagement and Consumer Education, PDG Program Design, Program Integrity and Accountability, Promoting Children's Development, Protecting Children's Health and Safety
Group: Not Applicable
Analyzing data within the budget process entails considering how funds are allocated and how revenue is obtained. It also includes considering whether goals and objectives are being met within the funding source for the project, initiative, or system. It is important to have accurate and reliable…
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Topic/Subtopic: Early Childhood Program Design and Management, Equal Access to Child Care, Family Engagement and Consumer Education, PDG Program Design, Program Integrity and Accountability, Promoting Children's Development, Protecting Children's Health and Safety
Group: Not Applicable
Pooling funds are funds from many individual investors that are aggregated for the purpose of investment in a program, initiative, or system infrastructure.[49] Many funding streams that support early childhood are categorical and targeted to specific populations of children or fund only specific…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic: Early Childhood Program Design and Management, Equal Access to Child Care, Family Engagement and Consumer Education, PDG Program Design, Program Integrity and Accountability, Quality Improvement
Group: Not Applicable
Shared services involves sharing within an organization or group. Specifically, it refers to one part of an organization or group providing a service that had previously been found in more than one part of the organization or group. Thus, the funding and resourcing of the service is shared.
Shared…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic: Early Childhood Program Design and Management, Equal Access to Child Care, Family Engagement and Consumer Education, PDG Program Design, Program Integrity and Accountability, Promoting Children's Development
Group: Not Applicable
Private resources and expertise can be leveraged to increase the quality and availability of programs and services provided to children from birth to age five. There are many ways to leverage private resources to support early childhood.
Hawaii has leveraged private resources with state and…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic: Early Childhood Program Design and Management, PDG Program Design, Equal Access to Child Care, Family Engagement and Consumer Education, PDG Program Design, Program Integrity and Accountability, Promoting Children's Development, Protecting Children's Health and Safety, Quality Improvement
Group: Not Applicable
Lotteries raise money by selling numbered tickets for prizes that are given to the holders of numbers drawn at random. Lotteries are a popular way to fund education; prekindergarten services are included in some states:
Thirteen states have lotteries with a stated purpose of funding education…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic: Early Childhood Program Design and Management, Equal Access to Child Care, Family Engagement and Consumer Education, Program Integrity and Accountability
Group: Not Applicable