{"id":223,"date":"2022-08-30T16:11:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T20:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecdfwg.ca\/?page_id=223"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:46:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:46:51","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ecdfwg.ca\/fr\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"Histoire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ECDFWG began as a collaboration of eight family foundations with a mix of regional and national mandates, different-sized endowments and granting levels, and varied histories as foundations and in funding early child development. At the invitation of the Lawson Foundation and Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation, these foundations met with other foundations and related organizations in Toronto in 2009 to explore how they could expand the effectiveness of their philanthropy with respect to young children. Subsequently, seven original member foundations joined the Margaret &amp; Wallace McCain Family Foundation to prepare and promote <a href=\"https:\/\/ecereport.ca\/fr\/point-sur-petite-enfance\/letude\/\"><em>Le point sur la petite enfance 3<\/em><\/a>, which was published in 2011. Over the years, foundations have come together in different combinations outside the ECDFWG to co-fund and collaborate on different early childhood initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>De 2015 \u00e0 2021, l\u2019ECDFWG a explor\u00e9 de nouvelles fa\u00e7ons de d\u00e9velopper ses collaborations et de jouer un r\u00f4le de d\u00e9fense collective plus fort, en co-r\u00e9digeant <a href=\"https:\/\/ecdfwg.ca\/fr\/open-letters\/\">four open letters<\/a> et en mandatant <a href=\"https:\/\/ecdfwg.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/leger_study_highlights.pdf\">un projet de recherche conjoint<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>En 2022, l\u2019ECDFWG a entrepris une r\u00e9flexion avec les membres actuels pour examiner comment le groupe poursuivrait son travail dans les prochaines ann\u00e9es. Le Groupe de travail des fondations sur la petite enfance a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de maintenir le cap sur le partage des connaissances et des ressources en tant que groupe de fondations philanthropiques soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement de la petite enfance, alors que d\u2019autres continueront \u00e0 \u00e9tablir des collaborations en dehors du ECDFWG.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ECDFWG began as a collaboration of eight family foundations with a mix of regional and national mandates, different-sized endowments and granting levels, and varied histories as foundations and in funding early child development. At the invitation of the Lawson Foundation and Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation, these foundations met with other foundations and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":156,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-223","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecdfwg.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecdfwg.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecdfwg.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecdfwg.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecdfwg.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ecdfwg.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/ecdfwg.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecdfwg.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecdfwg.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}