The Low Income Investment Fund’s ABCD Initiative supports the development of quality child care facilities in California. In this report, BTW took an in-depth look at one of the initiative’s strategies—Constructing Connections. Through this strategy, LIIF supported local collaborative teams consisting of child care operators, developers, civic leaders, small business leaders and other stakeholders in 11 California counties. These collaborative teams worked together to identify and eliminate local and regional barriers to child care facilities development, streamline the development process and provide support to new child care construction projects. This executive summary summarizes the key findings and implications from the evaluation, including the importance of having an ongoing connective community resource to support long-term systems change work

The After-school and Summer Enrichment Subprogram of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation helps build sustainable programmatic and financial support for California’s out-of-school programs. Having supported the Subprogram since 2005, the Foundation engaged BTW to evaluate the impact of its contributions.

BTW undertook a multi-year evaluation. Our Phase I study determined that the Foundation’s efforts have helped build critical infrastructure for the field. These and future findings by BTW (Phase II will be released in 2011) will help the field assess its accomplishments in providing technical assistance, workforce development and leadership to summer enrichment and after-school programs.

The purpose of the Low Income Investment Fund’s ABCD Initiative is to create a sustainable system for financing and developing California childcare facilities, and to support quality childcare spaces statewide. BTW is in its fourth year of an evaluation designed to identify how the Initiative’s interwoven strategies have affected outcomes.

Building Knowledge & Systems for Lasting Change: A Third Year Evaluation of the ABCD Initiative Executive Summary summarizes the key findings and implications from the third year of this evaluation.

This in-depth case study illustrates how Merced County is implementing th local capacity building work of the ABCD initiative.

This in-depth case study illustrates how Riverside County is implementing the local capacity building work of the ABCD Initiative.

The ABCD Story outlines the purpose, components and intended impacts of the ABCD Initiative.