CIF Director Theresa Jordan, Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler, State Representative Adrian Madaro, East Boston Social Centers (EBSC) Executive Director Justin Pasquariello, Senator Sal DiDomenico, an EBSC educator and student, and EEC Commissioner Amy Kershaw. Last Monday, the Healey-Driscoll administration announced that 20 programs from across Massachusetts will r...

Today, CEDAC released our FY23 Annual Report, highlighting our most exciting and impactful projects of the past year that were completed alongside our non-profit community development partners in our ongoing efforts to create greater access to high quality affordable housing and child care across Massachusetts. In 2023, the Commonwealth achieved historic milestones in t...

Greater Lawrence Community Action Council. © Damianos Photography Children’s Investment Fund, CEDAC, and the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) announced over $18M in funding for child care facilities this year. This unprecedented level of funding is the largest state investment in early childhood education and out-of-school time facilities in...

CEDAC is thrilled to share our FY22 Annual Report, detailing recent projects and initiatives completed alongside our nonprofit community development partners in our ongoing efforts to create greater access to high quality affordable housing and child care across Massachusetts. In 2022, with the world beginning to once again look to the future after weathering the global...

Pictured above: Aspire Developmental Services in Lynn before and after renovating their facility. This project was made possible in part by a $1 million Building Quality Capital Fund grant, which CIF/CEDAC administer with the MA Department of Early Education and Care (EEC). Today, we're excited to share a CommonWealth Magazine op-ed authored by Theresa Jordan, Direc...

Today, we hear from Mike Lindstrom – Principal of studioMLA Architects and Children’s Investment Fund (CIF) Board Chair – and Bree Horwitz, CIF Senior Project Manager, as they highlight the Horizons for Homeless Children’s new Edgerley Family Horizons Center in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. Mike explains how studioMLA approached the design of this child care fac...

President Biden’s American Jobs Plan is controversial in some quarters because it directs public capital into “non-traditional” forms of infrastructure. People commonly associate infrastructure with vast public works construction projects like highways and water treatment facilities that benefit society broadly; not just the truckers who use the roads or swimmers...

Massachusetts Preserved Over 3,400 Affordable Housing Units Last Year Despite the Challenges of the Pandemic CEDAC announced today that Massachusetts preserved the long-term affordability of more than 3,400 existing units of rental housing during 2020. Our data show that 22 project developments with a total of 3,443 affordable apartments across the state were preserved ...