Unlocking Resources &Finding Pathways Forward

Early Care and Education (ECE) is an economicimperative for Montgomery County. ECE impactstoday's employers and employees and theworkforce of tomorrow.

On March 16, 2020, MMF’s Annual Community Symposium

will continue to advance our cross-sector collaboration

around enhancing ECE in Montgomery County. We will

share key accomplishments and lessons learned during the

past year, look at what's on the horizon for advancing ECE

priorities in the County, and share new opportunities for

engagement.

Our County's Commitment to Early Care & Education 2.0

montgomery moving forward 2020 community symposium

Sponsorship Opportunity

If you have been involved in ECE in Montgomery County -

or would like to be - this is an opportunity for you and your

company or organization to (re)connect with others who

recognize the importance of this issue, position yourself

as an ECE champion, and learn more about how you can

support a coordinated birth-to-five system for Early Care

and Education.

March 16 | 12:30 - 3:30 p.m. (tentative) | Rosborough Center at Asbury

Sponsorship Levels & Benefits

Symposium Keynote Speaker Sponsor$2,500 to $5,000

Symposium Overall Event Sponsor$5,000 to $10,000

Early Care & Education Toolkit for Employers Launch Sponsor

$10,000 and above

Recognition in Symposium marketing materialsand publicityRecognition in the Symposium booklet providedto attendeesRecognition during the Symposium Recognition at ECE Toolkit publicity events

Benefits will be tailored to fit the priorities of eachsponsor, and may include:

Symposium Capacity/Audience: 150-200

This high-profile event will include representativesfrom county and state government; leaders fromeducation, business, philanthropy, and nonprofits;and community advocates for children.

For more information on sponsorship opportunities, please contact:

Sharon Friedman, Project Director, Montgomery Moving Forward sharon@nonprofitmoco.org | Phone: (301) 404-0171

or

Lesley MacDonald, Executive Director, Nonprofit Montgomery lesley@nonprofitmoco.org | Phone: (301) 943-6583

Montgomery Moving Forward (MMF) is a collective impact initiative that allows an entire community to work toward a shared vision. In 2018,after a year of intensive learning and community engagement, MMF released a Call to Action for Early Care and Education in MontgomeryCounty. The Call to Action outlines priority activities to assure that all Montgomery County children enter kindergarten ready to learn. MMF ismobilizing a community conversation around ECE as an economic imperative for the future of the county. Montgomery Moving Forward is aninitiative of Nonprofit Montgomery, a 501c3 organization.

We convene and facilitate conversations around critical issues in Montgomery County.We produce issue-specific, data-driven documents to inform decision-making. We gain input from hundreds of community leaders to gain feedback on community issues through aninnovative and interactive set of community forums and learning opportunities.We mobilize a 40-member cross-sector Leadership Group to work for system-level changes to improvethe economic well-being of community residents.

How MMF Works:

Learn more at nonprofitmoco.org/mmf

montgomery moving forward 2020 community symposium

Sponsor the Launch of a New ECE Toolkit for Employers! Thanks to the support and investment of both the public and private

sectors at last year’s Symposium, MMF will launch the Early Care and

Education Toolkit for Employers, a web-based resource for employers

and parents in Montgomery County.

The ECE Toolkit was developed by a team of local employers and child care experts, and it was created in response

to the goals set forth in MMF's Call to Action for Early Care and Education. MMF seeks sponsors for the launch of the

ECE Toolkit in conjunction with this year's Symposium to insure this new resource has maximum reach and impact.

About Montgomery Moving Forward

Sponsor the Symposium Keynote Speaker!Our keynote speaker on March 16 will be Ronald Ferguson, PhD., founder of The Basics. Ferguson is an economist

whose focus on education and youth development has had a tremendous impact on the way institutions, communities,

and families interact with children. He has made a career of intentional change through his work as an author, director

of The Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University, co-founder of Tripod Education Partners, over 30 years

of teaching at the Harvard Kennedy School, and now, as founder of The Basics.