RELEASE: Major Investment Empowers Children’s Campaign Fund Action to Advance Child Care Platform

SEATTLE– The Children’s Campaign Fund Action (CCFA) has received a game-changing $1.23 million investment from Ballmer Group and others to advance its mission of building political power for children, youth, and families. With these new resources, CCFA will continue its work with the Association of Washington Business Institute to educate lawmakers and candidates on the importance of investing in high-quality child care, with the goal of helping candidates talk about early learning issues more effectively on the campaign trail and elevating early learning as a significant issue in the 2024 electoral cycle. 

“We are thrilled by the opportunity that these new partnerships will provide to build a movement for children, making child care a high priority in Olympia.,” said Children’s Campaign Fund Action co-chair and former State Representative Ruth Kagi. 

Additionally, CCFA will partner with MomsRising and One America Votes to launch a poll on child care, develop a shared platform, and organize debriefs with gubernatorial and state legislative candidates on child care. CCFA will share the results of this poll with gubernatorial candidates, state legislative candidates, and the media. CCFA will also work in collaboration with other influential partners, such as Child Care Aware of Washington, to build a political movement to advance legislation to pass a living wage for child care providers and a plan for all Washingtonians to have access to affordable child care. 

“Across the state, Washingtonians struggle to find affordable and accessible child care,” Children’s Campaign Fund Action Executive Director Alex Galeana said, “Kids can’t wait. We need bipartisan solutions for high-quality care across Washington now.”

These efforts are  part of a new strategic vision for the Children’s Campaign Fund Network (CCFN). CCFN is composed of the Children's Campaign Fund Political Action Committee and the Children’s Campaign Fund Action, a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization. We build political power through electioneering, education, and advocacy to enact transformational policy change for children, youth, and families. As one of the longest-standing nonpartisan PACs focused on children’s issues in the country, now paired with an affiliated advocacy arm, the Children’s Campaign Fund Network is mobilized to advance policy issues for children, youth, and families.

Media Contact: 

Alex Galeana 

alex@childrenscampaignfund.org

206-395-4371

The results are in!

Our 2022-2023 Impact Report is here, and we couldn't be more proud of our endorsed lawmakers! Here's a recap of the 2022 elections cycle:

• We interviewed 106 candidates, endorsing 84.

• Our endorsed candidates won 87% of the time.

• There are 96 endorsed champions now in the legislature, including 23 lawmakers from the 2020 cycle.

• We contributed over $52,000 to campaigns, thanks to your support of the CCF PAC!

Our endorsed lawmakers sent a strong message in Olympia: we need to champion issues for children, youth, and families! On average, our endorsed champions voted "YES!" on our priority tracked bills 98% of the time.

You can read more about our impact in our full report below!

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Announcing our new mission and vision!

The Children’s Campaign Fund Network, composed of the Children’s Campaign Fund Action and the Children’s Campaign Fund PAC, is excited to announce our new mission and vision for the future! Building on more than thirty years of advancing champions in the legislature for children, youth, and families, CCFN has a renewed sense of purpose for the next thirty years and beyond.

OUR NEW VISION

We envision a Washington where all lawmakers prioritize the health, well-being, safety, and learning and development of the children, youth, and families of Washington State, especially those who are under-resourced and marginalized.

OUR NEW MISSION – CCF

The Children's Campaign Fund builds non-partisan political power by helping to elect lawmakers who will enact transformational policy change for children, youth, and families.

OUR NEW MISSION – CCFA

Children’s Campaign Fund Action builds non-partisan political power through advocacy and education to enact transformational policy change for children, youth, and families.

OUR NEW STRUCTURE

As one of the longest standing nonpartisan PACs focused on children’s issues in the country now paired with an affiliated advocacy arm, the Children’s Campaign Fund Network is in an exciting and ambitious phase of growth and deeper impact on behalf of children, youth, and families statewide. To fulfill its mission, CCFN seeks to build political power through three core strategies: electioneering, education, and advocacy.

ELECTIONEERING: Our focus is to elect more pro-kids champions who will support our policy priorities. We will do this by making candidate contributions and running voter contact campaigns (doors, phones, paid media ads, etc.) to propel them into office. We will also recruit and train pro-kids candidates to run for open state legislative seats.

EDUCATION: We will educate candidates and their staff on the importance of children's issues early in the campaign trail. Doing this will ensure that they are strong pro-kids champions once they assume office. In time, we will also conduct voter education campaigns that build a statewide pro-kids electorate.

ADVOCACY: We will connect the political capital we amass from our electioneering work to strengthen our advocacy efforts in collaboration with other policy leaders and coalitions. We will establish a membership program to allow individual allies to invest and participate in our advocacy work.

Through these three pillars, we will continue to ensure issues affecting children, youth, and families will be top priorities in Olympia for lawmakers.