The Early Care and Education Collaborative is a multi-year project of eight state-based child advocacy organizations working on child care issues in the U.S. The Communications Consortium Media Center (CCMC) coordinates the Collaboration. The project's purpose is to design and implement strategic public education strategies aimed at creating the public will in each of the target states to expand both the supply and the quality of early care and education resources. Further, the Collaborative wants to share "lessons learned" on this unique partnership with the broader child care community.

One of the useful resources on this website is a page which features a number of articles and reports on the topic of economic development and early care [3].