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Child Care Facilities: Quality By Design (Children's Investment Partnership (CIP)) Show Details
A publication that highlights research on Connecticut facilities and emphasizes the link between good design and program quality.
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Meeting the Need, Accepting the Challenge: Developing Quality Early Education Facilities for Connecticut (Full Report) (Children's Investment Partnership (CIP)) Show Details
This report highlights the findings of a study of Connecticut’s early education facilities conducted by the Children's Investment Partnership (CIP), a program of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). CIP studied six years of data on Connecticut’s two preschool construction programs and offers a plan for addressing the preschool space shortage. The report also contains recommendations for financing programs.
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Meeting the Need, Accepting the Challenge: Developing Quality Early Education Facilities for Connecticut (Press Release) (Children's Investment Partnership (CIP)) Show Details
This report highlights the findings of a study of Connecticut’s early education facilities conducted by the Children's Investment Partnership (CIP), a program of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). CIP studied six years of data on Connecticut’s two preschool construction programs – the Department of Education’s School Construction Grant Program and the Tax-Exempt Financing Program of the Child Care Facilities Loan Fund, administered by the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority (CHEFA), with the Department of Social Services (DSS). It found that by building up to an annual investment of $17 million per year, the state can erase its 15,000-space shortage in five to seven years. The report also contains a series of recommendations for how the state can further strengthen financing programs as it expands its early education system.
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Resource Guides and Tools for Early Education Facilities (Children's Investment Partnership (CIP)) Show Details
A list of "how to" guides developed by the Children's Investment Partnership to assist organizations that are planning to renovate, construct or improve their early education facilities.
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Children's Investment Partnership Products and Services (Children's Investment Partnership (CIP)) Show Details
A brochure outlining the technical assistance, training and resource materials and funding offered by the Children's Investment Partnership to licensed childcare centers and School Readiness Councils.
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Press Release: Future of Quality Childcare in CT Gets a Boost Through New Support for Innovative Facilities Program (Children's Investment Partnership (CIP)) Show Details
May 2007 press releast the Graustein Memorial Fund's partnership with five communiy foundations in Connecticut to support CIP.
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Child Care Facilities: Quality By Design (Children's Investment Partnership (CIP)) Show Details
A publication that highlights research on Connecticut facilities and emphasizes the link between good design and program quality.
(1.18M Bytes)
(See other resources by Children's Investment Partnership (CIP))
Meeting the Need, Accepting the Challenge: Developing Quality Early Education Facilities for Connecticut (Full Report) (Children's Investment Partnership (CIP)) Show Details
This report highlights the findings of a study of Connecticut’s early education facilities conducted by the Children's Investment Partnership (CIP), a program of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). CIP studied six years of data on Connecticut’s two preschool construction programs and offers a plan for addressing the preschool space shortage. The report also contains recommendations for financing programs.
(838.86K Bytes)
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Meeting the Need, Accepting the Challenge: Developing Quality Early Education Facilities for Connecticut (Press Release) (Children's Investment Partnership (CIP)) Show Details
This report highlights the findings of a study of Connecticut’s early education facilities conducted by the Children's Investment Partnership (CIP), a program of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). CIP studied six years of data on Connecticut’s two preschool construction programs – the Department of Education’s School Construction Grant Program and the Tax-Exempt Financing Program of the Child Care Facilities Loan Fund, administered by the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority (CHEFA), with the Department of Social Services (DSS). It found that by building up to an annual investment of $17 million per year, the state can erase its 15,000-space shortage in five to seven years. The report also contains a series of recommendations for how the state can further strengthen financing programs as it expands its early education system.
(11.53K Bytes)
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Resource Guides and Tools for Early Education Facilities (Children's Investment Partnership (CIP)) Show Details
A list of "how to" guides developed by the Children's Investment Partnership to assist organizations that are planning to renovate, construct or improve their early education facilities.
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Building Early Childhood Facilities: What States Can Do to Create Supply and Promote Quality (Brief) (Children's Investment Partnership (CIP)) Show Details
To help policymakers address the resulting need for new facilities, LISC’s Community Investment Collaborative for Kids partnered with Rutgers University’s National Institute for Early Education and Research to produce this brief, which outlines strategies for successfully financing, designing and developing high quality preschool facilities.
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Building Early Childhood Facilities: What States Can Do to Create Supply and Promote Quality (Full Report) (Children's Investment Partnership (CIP)) Show Details
To help policymakers address the resulting need for new facilities, LISC’s Community Investment Collaborative for Kids partnered with Rutgers University’s National Institute for Early Education and Research to produce this brief, which outlines strategies for successfully financing, designing and developing high quality preschool facilities.
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National Clearinghouse of Educational Facilities Resource List Show Details Web site
NCEF's resource list of links, books, and journal articles providing extensive resources on design guidelines, quality indicators, and safety requirements for early childhood centers.
National Clearinghouse of Educational Facilities Resource List Show Details Web site
NCEF's resource list of links, books, and journal articles providing extensive resources on design guidelines, quality indicators, and safety requirements for early childhood centers.



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