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Featuring Oakland Starting Smart and Strong 
  • Measure C has sent $53M to Alameda County childcare centers; The Oaklandside, July 2026.
  • Power-Sharing Under Pressure: What a Decade of Community Partnership Reveals for Philanthropy Today; Engage R+D, The Foundation Review, June 2026. 
  • More 4-year-olds are in publicly funded preschool than ever — in Oakland and across the state; The Oaklandside, April 2026.
  • All Oakland 4-year-olds are eligible for transitional kindergarten; The Oaklandside, August 2025.
  • Early Childhood x Oakland, CA Advancing Community Solutions: A Spotlight; Stanford Center on Early Childhood, May 2024.
  • Three Golden Rules for Improving Early Childhood Systems; New America, October, 2024. 
  • Co-Creation: Approaches to Sharing Power in a Place-Based Initiative; The David and Lucille Packard Foundation, November 2024
  • Meet Our Partners: Priya Jagannathan; Engage R+D, August 2024
  • How Oakland Overcomes Racial Disparities in Child Care (Live at KDOL-TV); No One is Coming to Save Us Podcast, Lemonada Media, 2023
  • In the San Francisco Bay Area, Two New Funds Support Early Care and Education; New America, May 2023
  • Incorporating Anti-Racist Principles into Preschool Classrooms; New America, April 2022
  • Seeing a Birth of Hope: Training Teachers in Trauma-Informed Classroom Practice; New America, July 2019​
  • ​Parents Know Best: How Family-Led Data Collection and Advocacy Lead to Increases in Early Childhood Funding in Alameda County; National Institute for Children's Health Quality, 2021

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  • ABOUT
    • OUR PURPOSE
    • OUR IMPACT
    • OUR TEAM >
      • STAFF AND CONSULTANTS
      • LEAD PLANNING TEAM
      • SUPPORTERS
      • FEATURED LEADERS
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      • TRAUMA-RESPONSIVE LEARNING >
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      • LET'S TALK EARLY LEARNING
    • DATA, POLICY AND ADVOCACY >
      • POLICY AND ADVOCACY
      • FAMILY CHILD CARE POLICY PROGRAM
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