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Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Maternal Justice MomsVote Politics & Policy

12/18/20

Your urgent action is still needed before the country shuts down for the year-end holidays! The clock is ticking: We’ve got to keep urging Congress to help families who are suffering COVID’s economic fallout by taking immediate steps to strengthen and expand unemployment insurance, as well as...

MomsRising Together

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Childcare & Early Education

12/17/20

As part of its America For Early Ed Initiative, NAEYC created its “Our Votes. Their Futures” electoral advocacy campaign, which engaged thousands of child care providers and families in the 2020 elections. NAEYC teamed up with partners like ECM and hosted virtual panels at both major parties’ conventions, took part in National Voter Registration Day, and used social media to bring attention to child care as an issue to ask candidates about during debates and to hold them accountable for when elected.

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Erin Robinson

Nearly 30,000 NC children are on the waiting list for child care subsidies.

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security MomsVote Politics & Policy

12/17/20

ICYMI: The MomsRising community was all about creating, harnassing and using our PARENT POWER for good this week. Check out some content you might have missed for the week ending Dec. 18, 2020. YOUR GIFT MATCHED: Double Your Parent Power We need you now! As 2020 winds to a close, we’re giving...

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Kerri Karvetski

Childcare & Early Education

12/16/20

We are living in unprecedented times in a global pandemic. As a psychotherapist and child development expert, I witness and assist the anxiety and stress parents are under, and as I say, parenting is messy, and one of my missions is to help with that mess. We are currently parenting under uncertain...

MomsRising Education Fund

Lina Acosta Sandaal

Childcare & Early Education

12/15/20

With many schools across the country going virtual for the indefinite future, life has turned upside down for families. As two toddler moms working from home, we juggle snacks, naptime, and teatime with stuffed animals with our own endless Zoom meetings and overflowing inboxes. It’s easy to feel...

MomsRising Together

Jessica Juarez Scruggs

MomsVote

12/14/20

Thank you for helping to power our MomsVote campaign for the special election in Georgia! Amidst a global pandemic and one of the busiest times of year, you are making time to remind moms in Georgia about their voting options. We are so grateful - thank you again! The future is what we do together.

MomsRising Education Fund

Sara Alcid

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Health Care

12/13/20

As we move towards the end of 2020, we are still waiting on Congress to pass comprehensive COVID-19 legislation. If you haven’t already signed the petition, please find the link below. We also have four other ways for you to get involved with MomsRising. -- Sue Anne, Kristin, Elyssa, Nina, Anita,...

MomsRising Education Fund

Sue Anne Reed

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Health Care MomsVote

12/11/20

ICYMI: Despite a global pandemic and a year of unique pain and challenges, together, we lifted our voices, spoke up for each other and shared our power to help ALL moms and families experience racial, economic and gender justice. Check out these posts that reflected, amplified and powered up the...

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Kerri Karvetski

Childcare & Early Education

12/10/20

Through the Night, a documentary by filmmaker Loira Limbal, an Afro-Dominican filmmaker and DJ, is a documentary that shares the story of a 24 hour child care center in New Rochelle, NY, Dee’s Tots. The documentary sheds light on what providers and parents go through as navigate caregiving in our...

MomsRising Education Fund

Diana Limongi

MomsRising

12/10/20

Across the country, so many of us faced so many different hardships this past year. And, despite it all, and often against all odds, MomsRising supporters stepped up in so many ways to show that we are not alone-- and that together we are powerful! In fact, together we are... KAPOW! YAY! BAM! WOW!...

MomsRising Together

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner