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Author: LIIF Early Care and Education Team

NEPAC’s Impact in the Early Care and Education Sector: Part 1, New York City 

In August 2022, LIIF launched a National Early Care and Education Practitioners Advisory Committee (NEPAC) as part of its efforts to center the voices of providers. The group comprises leaders in the early care and education (ECE) field who have successfully used LIIF grant funds in the past. Our aligned values are sustainability, respect, dignity…

Early Care and Education: LIIF Scaling Solutions via New Business Plan 

LIIF is recognized as a national leader and advocate for the early care and education (ECE) sector. What started a quarter century ago as a partnership with the City and County of San Francisco has burgeoned into a national model. Today, LIIF supports the building, expansion and improvement of facilities, further deepening our investment to…

LIIF Supporting Thousands of Child Care Educators to Improve Facilities, Deploying Hundreds of Millions with the California Department of Social Services 

“Margins are slim in the child care sector. The Infrastructure Grant Program (IGP) funding has allowed me to stay in business,” states Inna Pavlova, owner of Our Rainbow Kids Family Childcare in San Francisco’s Parkside neighborhood.  Those words of gratitude are echoed by Co-Executive Director Ellen Veselack of the 44-year-old Child Educational Center in La Cañada,…

Building Better for Black Families: A Panel with Black Women Leaders Advocating for Affordable, Accessible, High-Quality Child Care

In communities across New York, families continue to endure the challenges of accessing and affording early child care and education options. For families living in the Bronx, New York, the challenges are even more dire. In February, Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) and Goldman Sachs’ One Million Black Women initiative partnered to host the “Building Better for Black…

CDFI Wins, Opportunities, and Challenges in the Proposed CRA Rule

August 5th is an important date that all community development stakeholders should have marked on their calendars — the deadline to submit public comment letters in response to the banking regulators’ proposed rule on the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). CRA is one of the most important drivers of bank investments in community development and this…