Laundry Cares Foundation and Too Small To Fail, the early childhood initiative of the Clinton Foundation, are proud to announce a fall webinar series. The three-part series will be made available free of cost for laundromat owners, early childhood providers and the funding community on September 15, 17, and 22, 2020. 

The series features keynotes from former President Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Cindy McCain, Ralph Smith, Managing Director of the Campaign for Grade Level Reading, Judge Ramona Gonzalez, Immediate Past President of the Council of Juvenile and Family Courts, Brian Wallace, CEO of the Coin Laundry Association and Patti Miller, Director of Too Small To Fail. Also featured are “coffee chats” with children’s authors Andrea Davis Pinkney and Mo Willems.

This series focuses on the high need of young children and their families to find early literacy in everyday spaces and why laundromats are the ideal place to provide these services. Attendees will learn valuable research updates from Dr. Neuman’s evaluation project in Chicago and will take part in tracks of learning to help develop partnerships and amplify results of early childhood literacy in laundromat settings. The first national awards will be given for exemplary partnerships, and awards for laundromat owners showing best practices and early childhood providers will also be presented.

“The online Summit allows us to accelerate our learning in the critical time of COVID-19 shutdowns.  We will all learn new ways to collaborate and come together in service of the children who need us most,” said Dan Nauman, Senior Vice President of the LaundryCares Foundation.

The Summit series has been made possible in part through generous funding by David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Allstate. Registration is free but seats are limited. Please visit www.laundrycares.org/summit2020 for more information, view the agenda for each of the three sessions, and to register to attend. Please register by September 1, 2020.