8.4 Public-Private Partnerships

Lead Agencies must demonstrate how they encourage partnerships among other public agencies, Tribal organizations, private entities, faith-based organizations, businesses, or organizations that promote business involvement, and/or community-based organizations to leverage existing service delivery (i.e., cooperative agreement among providers to pool resources to pay for shared fixed costs and operation) to leverage existing child care and early education service delivery systems and to increase the supply and quality of child care services for children younger than age 13. 8.4.1 Lead Agency public-private partnerships Identify and describe any public-private partnerships encouraged by the Lead Agency to leverage public and private resources to further the goals of CCDF: The Lead Agency utilizes Ready Start Networks in communities to establish public-private partnerships that increase the quality and supply of early childhood care and education in those communities. Ready Start Networks are local-level agencies that are tasked with creating strategic plans for improving early childhood quality and access at the community level; developing a coalition of early childhood stakeholders; creating an advisory council to guide local-level decision-making related to quality, access, and local funding for early care and education; and creating, maintaining, and updating a funding plan that outlines the Ready Start Network’s plans for seeking additional funding to support early care and education initiatives implemented at the local level. To execute these aims, Ready Start Networks form partnerships with private entities that are interested in supporting early care and education at the local level.