What's New
CCI 2010 Annual Champions for Children Awards - SAVE THE DATE 10/18/2010
On October 18, 2010, CCI will hold its Annual Champions for Children Awards at the Yale Club of New York City. This annual event recognizes the hard work and efforts from early care and educational professionals in the field, business leaders and organizations, and community philanthropists and advocates as it relates to early care and education. The event also raises important funds to continue the quality training, research and policy work that CCI is known and respected for. For more information on how you can be a partner or provide support for this event, email gscott@centerforchildrensinitiatives.org.
4th Annual Citywide Infant Toddler Conference
On July 8th, CCI in collaboration with the New York City Infant Toddler Resource Center, The Educational Psychology Department & the Child Development and Learning Center of the CUNY Graduate Center and the New York City Early Childhood Professional Development Institute sponsored a day- long conference: 4th Annual Citywide Infant Toddler Conference, at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue in New York City.
This year's conference, entitled Weaving a Tapestry: Connecting Communities of Practice for Infants, Toddlers, and Families, focused on critical aspects of infant-toddler care, birth to three, with an emphasis on the communities that have an impact on the health, education, and well-being of infants, toddlers and their families. For a full review of this year's conference including session descriptions, click here. We would like to thank all that attended, fascilitated, volunteered, sponsored and supported this highly successful event, it is greatly appreciated. To provide feedback and suggestions, please click here to complete the short conference evaluation. Thank you.
CCI Celebrates "Fun, Facts and Friendship" on the High Line
On May 19th the Center for Children’s Initiative (CCI) hosted an event to share with our friends and supporters information about who we are and our new initiatives for New York’s families. We thought that there was no better way to do this, but to celebrate on one of NYC’s most fabulous new attractions, the High Line. We called it an evening of “Fun, Facts and Friendship” and it was!
Following a stroll down the High Line at sunset, a large group of existing and new friends of CCI entered the Brecht Forum to hear an informal talk between Nancy Kolben, CCI’s Executive Director, and CCI Board Member and event chair Ed Gavagan discussing CCI’s accomplishments over the last quarter of a century and our services today. Later the group was entertained by nationally known NPR Moth Story Hour story tellers, including our own Ed Gavagan, as well as Peter Aguero and Faye Lane, who told hilarious, enthralling and poignant stories about their childhood. This was followed by a fantastic performance by vocalist Kate Fenner, who has toured and recorded with artists including BB King and Neil Young. Kate, who performed songs from her new album, was accompanied by guitarist, Tony Scherr.
The evening was an excellent way to keep our longtime supporters informed about what CCI is up to and to introduce a new audience to our organization. We are deeply grateful to our friends and the evening’s entertainers for making it such a terrific event.
Strengthening the Pre-K Investment: A Working Forum
Thank you to all who participated in this forum! See YNN news footage here, and photos here.
Presentations by: Kristie Kauerz, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Marci Young, Project Director, Pre-K Now, Dr. John B. King, Senior Deputy Commissioner for P-12 Education at the NYS Education Department, Dana Friedman, Founder & President of the Early Years Institute
The forum highlighted the newly released WBNY report Strengthening the Pre-K Investment: Next Steps to a Winning Beginning for Every Child in New York State. The report includes new data and lessons learned in the first 12 years of Pre-K implementation. The recommendations propose strategies to improve Pre-K as part of a comprehensive early care and learning system.
download full report - download 8-page summary
CCI is now the Center for Children's Initiatives
CCI recently completed an important strategic step with the launch of a new name and branding that better reflects the goals and breadth of our organization. CCI, as the Center for Children's Initiatives, better captures the scope of our focus – taking action on behalf of young children and families. To find out more about CCI, click here:
What's New
CCI 2010 Annual Champions for Children Awards - SAVE THE DATE 10/18/2010
On October 18, 2010, CCI will hold its Annual Champions for Children Awards at the Yale Club of New York City. This annual event recognizes the hard work and efforts from early care and educational professionals in the field, business leaders and organizations, and community philanthropists and advocates as it relates to early care and education. The event also raises important funds to continue the quality training, research and policy work that CCI is known and respected for. For more information on how you can be a partner or provide support for this event, email gscott@centerforchildrensinitiatives.org.
4th Annual Citywide Infant Toddler Conference
On July 8th, CCI in collaboration with the New York City Infant Toddler Resource Center, The Educational Psychology Department & the Child Development and Learning Center of the CUNY Graduate Center and the New York City Early Childhood Professional Development Institute sponsored a day- long conference: 4th Annual Citywide Infant Toddler Conference, at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue in New York City.
This year's conference, entitled Weaving a Tapestry: Connecting Communities of Practice for Infants, Toddlers, and Families, focused on critical aspects of infant-toddler care, birth to three, with an emphasis on the communities that have an impact on the health, education, and well-being of infants, toddlers and their families. For a full review of this year's conference including session descriptions, click here. We would like to thank all that attended, fascilitated, volunteered, sponsored and supported this highly successful event, it is greatly appreciated. To provide feedback and suggestions, please click here to complete the short conference evaluation. Thank you.
CCI Celebrates "Fun, Facts and Friendship" on the High Line
On May 19th the Center for Children’s Initiative (CCI) hosted an event to share with our friends and supporters information about who we are and our new initiatives for New York’s families. We thought that there was no better way to do this, but to celebrate on one of NYC’s most fabulous new attractions, the High Line. We called it an evening of “Fun, Facts and Friendship” and it was!
Following a stroll down the High Line at sunset, a large group of existing and new friends of CCI entered the Brecht Forum to hear an informal talk between Nancy Kolben, CCI’s Executive Director, and CCI Board Member and event chair Ed Gavagan discussing CCI’s accomplishments over the last quarter of a century and our services today. Later the group was entertained by nationally known NPR Moth Story Hour story tellers, including our own Ed Gavagan, as well as Peter Aguero and Faye Lane, who told hilarious, enthralling and poignant stories about their childhood. This was followed by a fantastic performance by vocalist Kate Fenner, who has toured and recorded with artists including BB King and Neil Young. Kate, who performed songs from her new album, was accompanied by guitarist, Tony Scherr.
The evening was an excellent way to keep our longtime supporters informed about what CCI is up to and to introduce a new audience to our organization. We are deeply grateful to our friends and the evening’s entertainers for making it such a terrific event.
Strengthening the Pre-K Investment: A Working Forum
Thank you to all who participated in this forum! See YNN news footage here, and photos here.
Presentations by: Kristie Kauerz, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Marci Young, Project Director, Pre-K Now, Dr. John B. King, Senior Deputy Commissioner for P-12 Education at the NYS Education Department, Dana Friedman, Founder & President of the Early Years Institute
The forum highlighted the newly released WBNY report Strengthening the Pre-K Investment: Next Steps to a Winning Beginning for Every Child in New York State. The report includes new data and lessons learned in the first 12 years of Pre-K implementation. The recommendations propose strategies to improve Pre-K as part of a comprehensive early care and learning system.
download full report - download 8-page summary
CCI is now the Center for Children's Initiatives
CCI recently completed an important strategic step with the launch of a new name and branding that better reflects the goals and breadth of our organization. CCI, as the Center for Children's Initiatives, better captures the scope of our focus – taking action on behalf of young children and families. To find out more about CCI, click here:
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