Opportunities Exchange is a non-profit organization focused on transforming the business of early care and education (ECE).
We facilitate change across the sector.
FEATURED WORK
Early Care & Learning Council
OppEx is partnering with the Early Care and Learning Council (ECLC) to create a technology roadmap that strengthens both the Council and its network of CCR&Rs across New York. The project maps current data systems, identifies gaps, and highlights flexible solutions to meet present and future needs. Through broad stakeholder engagement, OppEx is ensuring workflows, perspectives, and functions inform recommendations for an outcomes-driven ECE system.
Early Childhood Business Solutions
OppEx supports the team at Early Childhood Business Solutions, a program of Southwest Human Development (SWHD), to bring fiscal stability, automation and Shared Services to child care providers in Arizona. Partnering with the management team, OppEx assists to analyze business coaching data and to refine and develop new tools and training for the business coaches based on data gaps and trends. SWHD offers a range of programs and services targeted to families with young children and those that serve them, and engages in policy and other advocacy efforts impacting the ECE field nationally, and especially in Arizona.
Iowa Health and Human Services
The state of Iowa is building financial sustainability for providers through automation (CCMS) and business coaching, while simultaneously investing in a comprehensive, interoperable technology infrastructure. OppEx supports state-level staff with a host of tasks that include: working strategically with technology vendors; reducing paperwork by identifying ways that CCMS can support documentation required for licensing; identifying data needs; and more. OppEx also supports Iowa-based business coaches to strategically link their work to use of CCMS and effectively use data dashboards.
CLIENT LIST
Opportunities Exchange works with ECE stakeholders in communities across the U.S.
A partial list of our current and former clients and partners is listed below:
Acre Family Child Care (MA)
All Our Kin (CT)
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Arizona Department of Economic Security
Arizona AEYC
Battle Creek Community Foundation (MI)
Buffett Early Childhood Fund (NE)
BUILD Initiative
Buncombe Partnership for Children (NC)
CERCLE (CT)
Child Care Aware of America
Colorado Office of Early Chlidhood
Community Foundation of Bloomington & Monroe Counties (IN)
Connecticut Office of Early Childhood
DC Shared Services
Early Care & Learning Council (NY)
Early Learning Indiana
Early Learning Works (OK)
First Five Los Angeles
Gary Community Investments (CO)
Gateway Early Childhood Alliance (St. Louis)
George Kaiser Family Foundation (OK)
Granite United Way (NH)
Growing Up New Mexico
Idaho AEYC
Indiana Office of Early Care and Out of School Learning
Iowa Health and Human Services
Lets Grow Kids (VT)
LIIF (DC)
Louisiana Board of Regents
Louisiana Department of Education
Low Income Investment Fund
Luminary Evaluation
Maryland Family Network
Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation UMass
Miriam and Peter Haas Fund (CA)
National Association of Counties Research Foundation
Nebraska Early Childhood Collaborative
New York AEYC
North Carolina Partnership for Children (Smart Start)
Oklahoma Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence (KY)
Pritzker Early Childhood Initiative
Programs for Parents (NJ)
Quality Care for Children (Atlanta)
Self-Help Credit Union (NC)
Southwest Human Development (Phoenix)
State of New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department
Support for Early Learning and Families (SELF) (WA)
Texas Workforce Commission
The Children’s Trust of Miami-Dade
United Way of Greater Boston
United Way of Southwest Virginia
Utah AEYC
Ventura County Office of Education (CA)
Virginia Early Childhood Foundation
William Penn Foundation (PA)
Wisconsin Early Childhood Association
WK Kellogg Foundation
YWCA of Northwest Ohio
“OppEx helped us explore strategies for re-imagining how to support our ECE workforce ... the team helped us launch several regional pilots with Shared Services as a pillar and craft potential policy & finance options to stabilize child care providers, especially those caring for infants and toddlers.”
—Jon Reeves [he/him/his], Community Systems Team Manager, Oregon Early Learning