Policy and Research
In pursuit of an early education and child care system that works for everyone, Neighborhood Villages releases groundbreaking research and public education materials to guide lasting policy solutions. Check out our most recent work and our top research priorities.
Sufficient & Effective Funding
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Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3) Grant Program
Fact Sheet: C3 Guardrails (published November 2024)
Fact Sheet: C3 Funding Formula (published October 2024)
Resource: Commonwealth Cares For Children (C3) Operations Grants (updated February 2024)
Fact Sheet: Commonwealth Cares For Children (C3) Operations Grants: Critical to Sustaining and Growing the Capacity of Massachusetts’ Early Education and Care Sector (published February 2023)
Fact Sheet: Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3) Stabilization Grant Program: Critical for Sustaining the Capacity of MA’s Early Ed and Care Sector (published Spring 2022)
Policy Paper: Overview of the Massachusetts Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3) Stabilization Grant Program (published April 2022)
Cost of Providing High Quality Care
Research Report: Public Funding for Early Childhood Education Providers: Comparing Direct-to-Provider Grants to Child Care Financial Assistance Reimbursement (published April 2024)
Research Report: High-Quality Early Childhood Education: Opening the Books on its True Costs (published February 2024)
Fact Sheet: High-Quality Early Childhood Education: Opening the Books on its True Costs (published February 2024)
Defining a Transformed Sector
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Field Report: Current Landscape of Early Education and Care Center-based Programs 2022 (Published 2022)
Field Report: Status of Hiring for and Retention of the MA Early Education Workforce (Published May 2021)
Massachusetts State Budget and Legislative Reform
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Resource: FY25 Budget Primer (published May 2024)
Resource: MA Governor’s FY2025 Budget fact sheet (published March 2024)
Resource: Affordable and Accessible High Quality Early Education and Care Act (S.2707) (published March 2024)
Fact Sheet: Affordable and Accessible High Quality Early Education and Care Act (S.2707) (published March 2024)
Resource: Written Testimony Guide (published January 2024)
Fact Sheet: Child Care Advocacy Guide (published August 2023)
Fact Sheet: Affordable and Accessible High Quality Early Education and Care H.489/S.301 (published February 2023; Updated April 2023)
Fact Sheet: Massachusetts' 2021-2022 Legislative Session (published August 2022)
Fact Sheet: Massachusetts' FY23 Budget (published August 2022)
Fact Sheet: An Act to Expand Access to High-Quality, Affordable Early Education and Care (published Summer 2022)
Sustainable Careers for Educators
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Case Study: The Registered Apprenticeship Program (November 2024)
Curriculum Profile: Profile Learning through Exploration (published May 2024)
Equity And Access
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Fact Sheet: Child Care is Gender Justice: Pass the Common Start Legislation (updated March 2023)
Fact Sheet: Affordable, Accessible Child Care is Foundational to Racial Justice (published February 2023)
Resource: Child Care is Health Justice: Ensuring Access to High Quality Early Education and Care Is Key to Advancing Health Equity (published August 2022)
Resource: Child Care is Education Equity: The Common Start Legislation (published Spring 2022)
Stay Up to Date
Featured Resources
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Access Our Previous Work
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Case Study: Statewide Implementation of COVID Testing for the Massachusetts Early Education and Care Sector (published December 2022)
Field Report:A Comprehensive COVID-19 Testing System for the Massachusetts Early Education and Care and Out-of-School-Time Sector (published November 2020)
Field Report: School-Age Learning Pods: Identified Challenges and Opportunities (published Fall 2020)
Field Report:Results of Massachusetts Early Education Workforce Survey (published Fall 2020)
Field Report:Results from Survey of Massachusetts Early Education Providers Reliant on Parent-Paid Tuition Fees (published June 2020)