Early Childhood & Research

The topic of interest to me was funding in the early childhood field.  In narrowing this topic down I asked the following questions?  How can access to funding improve the quality of services provided? When funding is readily available, how can early childhood programs use the funding? And finally, what types of funding opportunities are available to early childhood programs? 

I chose this topic because it is a problem that many programs deal with.  Having enough money to buy supplies, pay qualified, quality staff, and have child care tuition that is affordable is something that is of importance is any early child care program but locating funding sources is a major concern.  As I have worked in the early childhood field over that past 25 years I know personal several programs that suffer from the lack of funding thus forcing them to go out of business.  I think when programs are equipped with enough funding they are able to supply the services to children and their families.