CEED strives to provide leadership and mentorship opportunities grounded in equity and antiracist coaching, training, and systemic professional development plans that prepare diverse scientists, practitioners, and teachers for success in the field.
The Reimagining Childcare (RCC) study is an initiative designed to examine 10 grantees from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s RCC Portfolio. The RCC portfolio is a series of investments with the following goals:
Orient advocates toward understanding the dignity, aspirations, and service of family childcare providers.
Create mechanisms of accountability that can help advocates see how their efforts center families and children who are racially or economically marginalized.
Identify new advocacy practices to anchor the early care and education system in a way that uproots sexism and racism.
Positively advance the narrative of caregivers.
This project will assist RWJF in learning more about the contribution that these projects made to changing the advocacy ecosystem, taking a deeper look at the evaluation components of this work. Based on the information we learn from this initiative, CEED will develop an overall concept model of an advocacy ecosystem that includes lessons learned from across the grantees.