Advocacy

2024 Policy Priorities

ECE Coalition Budget Letter of Support

Build Up California is a proud member of the California Early Care and Education Coalition. We joined 35 other ECE advocacy groups in signing on to this year’s letter to the state legislature. The letter urges Governor Gavin Newsom and the CA state legislature to maintain their…

2024-2025 State Budget Request – Maintain Current Funding and One-Time $50 Million Child Care Facilities Funding

The Infrastructure Grant Program has supported over 5,000 child care providers with grants totaling over $350 million to fund repair and renovation projects to expand and enhance both home-based and center-based childcare facilities. This funding, while a historically large state investment, still did not serve all applicants. In our letter, we urge the Legislature to maintain their commitment to distributing IGP Major Repair & New Construction grants to awarded providers and to add a one-time $50 million allocation to continue funding the IGP.

AB 2732: internet web portal: climate-related grants, child care sector

Child care providers know the impact climate change can have on their facilities, but finding public funding to build climate resiliency can be hard to find. AB 2732 would add a “child care provider” search category to www.grants.ca.gov to make this process easier, and better equip providers with the funds they need to protect their facilities and children against the effects of climate change.

Assembly hearing testimony
Shelly Masur, LIIF’s Vice President of ECE, Advisory and State Policy, testified at the Pre-K –12 Assembly Budget Committee …

CA CCDF recommendation letter

In the coming fiscal year, California is estimated to receive an increase of $76,850,822 in Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funds, totaling over $830,350,950 for the three year grant cycle. Additionally, the recently released CCDF guidelines provide a change to the definition of minor repairs …