About Us

The Early Care and Education Consortium is a non-profit alliance of America’s leading national, regional, and independent providers of quality early learning and development programs for young children. ECEC member organizations operate more than 7,500 centers enrolling nearly 800,000 children in 49 states and the District of Columbia. As the voice for quality early care and education providers at the national level, the Consortium includes private non-profit and for-profit members, and large, multi-state organizations as well as smaller entities that operate in one or only a few states. 

ECEC was formed in 1999 when a number of the largest national and regional early care and education companies came together to create an alliance to influence public policy on behalf of quality care and education for children and families.

In 2006, ECEC reincorporated, opened a new national office in Washington, DC, and first hired staff to work on state public policy initiatives, particularly those relating to prekindergarten, early childhood education quality, and child care assistance to working families.

Ascendere, Inc. Lawrenceville, New Jersey Bright Horizons Watertown, Massachusetts Brightside Academy Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Childcare Network Columbus, Georgia Easter Seals Child Development Network Chicago, Illinois Human Services Management Corporation San Fransico, California Knowledge Learning Corporation Portland, Oregon Learning Care Group Novi, Michigan Massachusetts Association of Day Care Agencies Boston, Massachusetts

Minnieland Private Day Schools Woodbridge, Virginia National Child Care Association Washington, DC New Horizon Academy Plymouth, Minnesota Nobel Learning Communities West Chester, Pennsylvania Primrose Schools Acworth, Georgia Stepping Stone School Austin,Texas The Sunshine House Spartanburg, South Carolina Sunrise Preschools Temple, Arizona Teaching Strategies, Inc. Bethesda, Maryland