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.
Scale and Sustainability for the ECE Industry: An Overview of Shared Services Louise Stoney, Alliance for Early Childhood Finance and Opportunities Exchange January, 2010 – Powerpoint presentation for webinar conducted for the BUILD Initiative.
Shared Services for the ECE Industry: Using the Alliance Model in Early Childhood, Louise Stoney, Alliance for Early Childhood Finance May 13, 2010 – Powerpoint presentation for webinar conducted for Child Care Resource Center in Loraine, Ohio.
Business and Technology Tools for Shared Service Alliances. Powerpoint presentation for Shared Services Learning Community. April 20, 2010. Speakers on Early Learning Ventures platform: John Toman, Acelo Solutions; Zerel Appel, David and Laura Merage Foundation. Speakers on ECE Shared Resources platform: Denise Sayer and Laurie Cochran, CCA Global; Sharon Easterling, DVAEYC
Scale and Sustainability for the ECE Industry: An Overview of Shared Services Presentation for CED meeting in Mississippi. Louise Stoney, Alliance for Early Childhood Finance. May, 2010
Shared Services: The ECE Industry’s Role in Finance Reform Presentation at Florida Early Childhood Summit. Stoney, L. January 24, 2008. This powerpoint, prepared for a Florida summit on ECE finance, positions shared services as a way that ECE providers can become actively involved in finance reform efforts.
Public Support for the Alliance Model: A Summary of Interviews with State Child Care Administrators – This powerpoint presentation summarizes findings from a series of telephone interviews with State Child Care Administrators, conducted by Louise Stoney in the summer of 2006
Partner Organizations
Opportunities Exchange – a collaboration of the national consulting practice of BWB Solutions and the Alliance for Early Childhood Finance. Co-founders from these organizations – John Weiser of BWB Solutions, and Louise Stoney of the Alliance for Early Childhood Finance – formed Opportunities Exchange in 2009 to further the development of Shared Services Alliances. The Opportunities Exchange website includes a host of resources on shared services, including a starter kit.
Early Learning Ventures (ELV) – an operating foundation focused on supporting shared services for the ECE industry. The ELV website includes descriptions of ELV Alliances as well as other resources to guide the start-up of local early care and education alliances.
www.ECEsharedresources.org - an easy-to-use web-based platform that offers a range of tools (downloadable budget templates, handbooks, job descriptions, marketing materials, etc.) cost-saving discounts, information (access to data, state rules and forms, reference materials) as well as social networking tools. The platform is designed to help ECE programs gain scale by working together nationally, both within the ECE industry as well as in partnership with other small businesses. ECESharedResources is powered by CCA Global partners.
Conference Calls:
On January 10, 2006, the Shared Services Learning Community held a conference call to explore various administrative approaches/governance strategies for shared service alliances.
- Profile of The Children’s Home
- Governance Structure for the Children’s Home Child Care Center Network
- Children’s Home/Chambliss Shelter Partnerships & Collaborations
- Puget Sound Child Care Consortium
- Governance Structure for Puget Sound Child Care Consortium
- Profile of Infant Toddler Family Day Care
- Governance Structure for Infant Toddler Family Day Care