Start Early
Start Early provides early childhood programs in Illinois that support each aspect of a child’s development, starting before birth through age 5. They take a comprehensive approach to improving early learning in Illinois includes supporting children, families, early childhood professionals and policymakers.
UnidosUS is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that serves as the nation’s largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization. UnidosUS will develop and share materials, resources, and approaches that strengthen program providers serving Latino families, while also informing and engaging local leaders and policymakers around the importance of bilingual learning for young children and father engagement.
Save the Children is an international humanitarian organization that has been protecting children around the world for more than 100 years. As part of the ELN Collective, Save the Children will advance early learning in rural communities through networking, advocacy, and training opportunities for local leaders and communities.
At the Early Learning Nation Collective (ELN Collective) we respect and protect the privacy of our constituents and those who use our website. The following Privacy Statement provides details about how your personal information is collected and used. This privacy statement applies to the ELN Collective microsite website including the eln-collective.org domain.
Information Collection and Use
ELN Collective is the sole owner of information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Our website offers several opportunities for visitors to register for informational electronic mailings. These registration forms are often linked to CSSP mailing lists and require users to give contact information (such as name and email address). We use this contact information to send users information about ELN Collective work, news updates, and new initiatives. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings at any time.
Sharing and Usage
We will never share, sell, or rent your personal information with third parties for their promotional use. Occasionally, we enter into contracts with third parties so that they can assist us in servicing you (for example, providing customer service). The contracts prohibit them from using any of your personal information for their own purposes, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information we provide to them. We may disclose or report personal information in limited circumstances where we believe in good faith that disclosure is required under the law. For example, we may be required to disclose personal information to cooperate with regulators or law enforcement authorities, to comply with a legal process such as court order, subpoena, search warrant, or law enforcement request.
Use of Web Technologies
We use a variety of technologies on our site. Among these are cookies; a piece of information that our websites provide to your browser when you visit our sites. Cookies allow us to verify the login status of customers using services linked directly with our website, track point of entry to point of registration for those users participating in our email signup programs, and to track and measure the success of a particular email blast. Cookies also allow us to track overall site usage and determine areas users prefer, enabling us to make your visit to our website easier by recognizing you when you return and helping to provide you with a customized experience. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. If you choose to disable cookies, you may still use our site; however, you may have limited access to some areas within our website.
We also keep track of activity on our website via log files stored on our web servers. We collect information such as IP address, browser type and version, and pages you view. We also keep track of how you got to our site and any links you click on to leave our site. We use your website activity to assist us in offering you a personalized Web experience, assist you with technical support, diagnose problems with our server, administer our websites, and to tailor our informational offerings to you.
Security
We take every precaution to protect the confidentiality and security of your personal information by using industry-recognized security safeguards such as firewalls, coupled with carefully developed security procedures to protect your information from loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration.
ELN Collective takes care to reinforce the importance of our website visitors’ security and privacy among our partners. Our partners are trained and required to safeguard your information and, using physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards, we restrict access to personal information to those partners and agents for business purposes only.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on the ELN Collective website, so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) builds community so young people grow up with dignity, hope, and joy. CDF will provide local leaders with resources and training to drive systemic change in early learning systems while serving as the ELN Collective’s fiscal sponsor and helping communities access funding to support their efforts.
The Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) works to achieve a racially, economically, and socially just society in which all children, youth, and families thrive. CSSP will offer technical assistance to community groups and local leaders, develop and update tools and resources for local leaders and national partners to use, and provide leadership on measuring the impact of the ELN Collective.
The Hunt Institute brings together people and resources that help build and nurture visionary leadership and mobilize strategic action for greater educational outcomes and student success. The Hunt Institute will engage elected and government officials nationwide through a yearlong fellowship program for mayors, city or county council members, school board members, and others to advance policies that support young children and their families.
The National League of Cities (NLC) is an organization comprised of city, town, and village leaders that are focused on improving the quality of life for their current and future constituents. In addition to supporting operations for the ELN Collective’s Steering Committee and national organization partners, NLC will work with local governments nationwide to prioritize early learning in their strategic plans and budgets.
Start Early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap. Start Early will provide collaborative opportunities for childhood program providers and families to learn and apply human-centered design solutions to address issues facing children while helping local leaders identify and map out the systems that are crucial to serving children and families.