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Listed below are recent articles and publications that you may find of interest. This section will be regularly updated with older articles and publications found via the Organizations section of this website.

Articulating the Economic Importance of Child Care for Community Development
Special Issue: Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society Volume 37 No 2, June 2006.
This special issue, edited by Mildred E. Warner, focuses on the economic significance of child care in three areas: the importance of child care for the long term prospects of children, child care’s importance for parents as workers and child care purchasers, the importance of the child care industry for regional economies.

Early Care and Education: Realizing a Collective Vision
Published by the Insight Center For Community Economic Development, the report is the culmination of a 3-year project funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and reflects lessons learned and participant insights in the replication of Insight Center For Community Economic Development's economic impact model.

Child Care and Parent Productivity: Making the Business Case
Written by Karen Shellenback and published in December 2004, this publication is a collaboration between Smart Start's National Technical Assistance Center and Cornell University's Linking Economic Development and Child Care Project.

Economic Development Strategies to Promote Quality Child Care
Written by Mildred Warner, Ph.D., Shira Adriance, Nikita Barai, Jenna Hallas, Bjorn Markeson, Taryn Morrisey, and Wendy Soref in 2004. This publication is a collaboration between Smart Start's National Technical Assistance Center and Cornell University's Linking Economic Development and Child Care Project.

A Framework for a Coherent Early Care and Education System
By Teresa Vast
This essay is adapted from "Financing Strategies to Support a Coherent Early Care and Education System" and particularly focuses on the development of an early childhood system framework with both local and state components. A sketch of such a system can also be found in the essay.

The New Economics of Preschool: New Findings, Methods and Strategies for Increasing Economic Investments in Early Care and Education.
Dana E. Friedman, Ed.D.Early Childhood Funders' Collaborative (2004).
This paper provides an overview of research on both the long- and short-term economic impact of early care and education. Friedman reviews research on the long-term economic benefits that accrue from early childhood education. She also highlights research on short-term economic returns that result from the child care industry as a whole as well as increased and stable parental employment. She argues that both approaches are important and ends with practical applications and next steps.

Developmental Education: The Value of High Quality Preschool Investments as Economic Tools
The Committee for Economic Development has issued a new paper, focusing on the increased return of investing in early childhood education and the need for state and local policymakers to make this a component of their economic development policy toolkit.
http://www.ced.org/docs/report/report_preschool_2004_developmental.pdf

Measuring the Regional Economic Importance of Early Care and Education:
The Cornell Methodology Guide By Rosaria Ribeiro and Mildred Warner, Ph.D.
This guide is part of the larger Cornell University Linking Economic Development and Child Care Research Project and is designed to help study teams answer basic questions about how to conduct a regional economic analysis of the child care sector.

Collective Management of Early Childhood Programs: Approaches That Aim to Maximize Efficiency, Help Improve Quality and Stabilize the Industry.
Written by Louise Stoney, this is a collaborative publication of Smart Start's National Technical Assistance Center and the Cornell University Linking Economic Development and Child Care Research Project.

Early Care and Education Program Management and Support Services: North Carolina Approaches to Sustain Quality.
Written by Marsha Munn in collaboration with Smart Start's National Technical Assistance Center as a state-based companion piece to Louise Stoney's "Collective Management of Early Childhood Programs"

When Change is Out of Control by Margaret Wheatley
Margaret Wheatley writes, teaches and speaks about radically new practices and ideas for organizing in chaotic times. This article was published in February 2003 in Link&Learn.

A Catalog of Tax-Based Approaches for Financing Child Care
This was published by the National Women's Law Center in November 2001 and is based on a series of meetings it held over a two-year period on this topic.

Summary of Child Care Economic Impact Studies
A matrix that includes web links to all of the completed child care economic linkage studies in the United States as of July, 2003.

Other resources
Compiled by the Linking Child Care and Economic Impact Project.

Early Childhood Development: Economic Development with a High Public Return
An article written by Art Rolnick & Rob Grunewald, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and published in the fedgazette.

Financing School Readiness Strategies: An Annotated Bibliography
Prepared by Charles Bruner with Sheri Gloyd and Abby Copeman. February 2003. Available in hard copy from the State Early Childhood Policy Technical Assistance Network. (515) 280-9027 email.

Finding Funding: A Guide to Federal Sources for Out-of-School Time and Community School Initiatives, The Finance Project
Updated in January 2003, this guide provides information on more than 100 federal programs that have the potential to provide funding for out-of-school time and community school initiatives. In addition, the guide describes different approaches for accessing these funds and strategies for combining different funding streams.

Finding Resources to Support Rural Out-of-School Time Programs, The Finance Project
This strategy brief discusses the resource challenges that program leaders in rural communities are facing. It describes federal programs that can support rural out-of-school time programs and identifies strategies that state and local leaders can use to support and sustain out-of-school time programs in rural communities.

Blending and Braiding Funding to Support Early Care and Education Initiatives, The Finance Project
This strategy brief highlights the successes and lessons learned in blending early childhood funding streams. It presents financing strategies that state and local policy makers, community leaders, and program coordinators can employ to align, coordinate, and integrate discrete, categorical funding streams.