Partner Program

OVERVIEW
The Foundation for Early Learning partners with experts and organizations to distribute information to the public and to highlight valuable content from around the field of early learning. If you are an expert in a particular area of early learning, you can share your tips with the public by becoming a partner of the Foundation for Early Learning.

This partnership opportunity enables participating organizations and contributors to reach a broad community of parents, care providers and early learning professionals.

By becoming a content contributing partner, you advance the field of early learning and help build a central hub of information for the field of early learning, while also driving traffic back to your website and resources. Read on to identify if you qualify and complete the form below.

CONTENT AREAS
The Foundation is primarily interested in partnering with organizations that provide information in the following areas:

• Physical Health
• Mental Health
• Early Care
• Family Resources

PARTNERSHIP EXAMPLE
Content partners come in many forms including educational consultants, non-profit organizations and policy makers.

Each partner has the opportunity to participate in any way they choose. An organization with a popular booklet can include a subset of it on the Early Learning Community with a link back to the organization's site. A childcare provider can author an article in a monthly newsletter on an upcoming event. You can choose from one of our long-form or periodical content outlets to share your early learning information with the public. Please read below to learn more.

DISTRIBUTION OUTLETS
The Foundation features content from our partners in the channels below. These outlets reach tens of thousands of professionals and community members each month. In the past, partners have reported a significant increase in website traffic and engagement from the public after their content was featured by the Foundation. We value our role in connecting community members with valuable early learning information and resources.

• Early Investments Newsletter

  – A monthly newsletter with content serving early learning professionals from across the northwest and nation. This email-based publication includes news, job postings, surveys and area events. An archive featuring past issues of Early Investments can be viewed by visiting: www.EarlyLearning.org/resources/sign-up.

• Early Words Family Newsletter

  – This new publication being developed for parents and caregivers, will be published quarterly by email and will include childcare tips, family events and articles from industry experts and organizations.

• Early Learning Community

  – Dedicated to the world of early learning, this online social network enables community members to interact, share tips and explore parenting information from content experts. Join today at www.EarlyLearningCommunity.org.

• Early Learning Community Fair

  – An annual statewide event, the Early Learning Community Fair includes hundreds of locations across Washington State hosting informational events to celebrate the value of early learning. This coordinated event is usually held in either August or September timeframe.

• Social Media

  – With a presence on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, the Foundation has the ability to syndicate your early learning information to a broad audience. By sharing information through these mediums you also have the potential to reach an audience you may not traditionally reach.
  

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
By participating in the partner program, you can share your information with a broad audience and help advance the field of early learning.

1. Review the partner criteria below to ensure you qualify
2. Complete the form below
3. Once approved, establish a content agreement with the Foundation for Early Learning (contact joel@earlylearning.org).
4. Provide any questions or information to Joel Ballezza, Communications Manager at joel@earlylearning.org

PARTNERSHIP CRITERIA

• Serve the field(s) of early learning, childcare or early education
• Contribute content (blog posts, long-form topical content, publications, etc) in the areas of
• -Physical Health
  -Mental Health
  -Early Care
  -Family Resources
  
• Contributions must be original works, and copyrights must be held by the author or organization providing the content
• All partnerships will be approved at the discretion of Foundation for Early Learning

For questions about this program, please contact Joel Ballezza, Communications Manager at joel@earlylearning.org.