All on Board for Children Learning Community

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All on Board for ChildrenLearning Community

• Webinar
• How Tax Policy Is Linked to Quality Early Care
  and Education
• Insight Center for Community Economic Development
• April 22, 2008

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INSIGHT CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT(Formerly the National Economic
Development and Law Center)

• Who we are Insight Center is a 39 year old
  national research, consulting and legal
  non-profit organization
• Our Mission Helping vulnerable people and
  communities become, and remain, economically
  secure
• How we work We partner with a diverse range of
  colleagues to develop innovative strategies
  and programs that result in systemic change
• Focus Areas Early care and education
• Building community, communal, and individual
  financial assets
• Workforce Development
• www.insightcced.org

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All on Board for Children Initiative (ABC)

• Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, The ABC
  Initiative has identified the following
  objectives to advance the early care and
  education (ECE) field
• 1. Create and lead a national learning
  community
• 2. Help build state infrastructures
• 3. Develop an effective message strategy that
  lays the groundwork for a policy agenda
• 4. Develop state and national policy agendas

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Webinar Instructions

• Conference call line
• You are all muted to keep the ambient noise to a
  minimum. Presenters and respondents are not
  muted.
• If cut off, click Info tab at the top of your
  screen and use the call, session, and attendee
  info there
• Technology problems or questions
• Please call WebEx at 866-469-3239, and enter the
  session number which is 802-797-684
• Questions/Comments on presentations
• Type your question using QA function and select
  All Panelists. We will then un-mute you so that
  you can ask your question, then re-mute you
• If you did not log-on in the right sequence (i.e.
  computer then telephone), we will not be able to
  see your name when you type a question, thus if
  you submit a question it will be read aloud by
  the moderator or technical staff

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Todays Webinar

• GOAL For participants to come away with the
  information, resources and insight needed to
  determine if embarking on a tax policy
  strategy in your state is the right course to
  take
• PRESENTERS
• Louise Stoney Co-founder of the Alliance for
  Early Childhood Finance, and a partner in the
  Linking Economic Development and Child Care
  Project.
• Amy Matsui Senior Counsel at the National
  Womens Law Center
• Geoffrey Nagle Assistant Professor of
  Psychiatry at Tulane University School of
  Medicine and the Director of the Tulane
  Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental
  Health.