Under the leadership of Anne Mitchell, the Alliance has engaged in several cost modeling projects, aimed at helping states to estimate the cost of various early care and education finance initiatives. Articles, resources and tools from this work are included below:
Shared Services Financial Impact (2010). Anne Mitchell, Alliance for Early Childhood Finance. Powerpoint presentation for the National Shared Services Technical Assistance Conference, modeling the cost/benefit of shared services for centers.
Lessons from Cost Modeling: The Link Between ECE Business Management and Program Quality (2010) Mitchell and Stoney. This brief highlights key principals that have emerged from the Alliance cost modeling work.
QRIS Cost Modeling (2009) Anne Mitchell has developed interactive spreadsheets to understand the cost of implementing and expanding different QRIS designs. These are now an online interactive tool – the QRIS Cost Estimation Module – that can be used to estimate the cost of any QRIS model from small pilot to full-scale multi-year implementation. http://qriscostmodel.nccic.acf.hhs.gov [THIS LINK REQUIRES A LOGIN TO THE SITE]
Costing Out Early Care and Education (2004) — a conference call sponsored by Smart Start’s National Technical Assistance Center, with Anne Mitchell and Stacie Golin. Resources from this call.