Louise Stoney

Location: Averill Park, NY
Phone: 518.674.5635
Fax: 518.674.3025
E-mail: lstoney@aol.com
Web site: www.earlychildhoodfinance.org

EXPERTISE

Economic development strategies, the early care and education industry, shared services/collective management of early care and education programs, engaging the business community, economic impact research and data, ECE policy and finance in general.

Current Positions

Co-Founder Alliance for Early Childhood Finance; President, Stoney Associates; Co-Principal Investigator, Linking Economic Development and Child Care Project.

Previous Positions

Technical Assistance Specialist, National Child Care Information Center; Executive & Policy Director, NYS Child Care resource and Referral Network; Legislative Director, NYS Assembly Legislative Task Force on Women's Issues; Instructor, Center for Women in Government, State University of New York at Albany.

Education

Bachelor of Science, SUNY Stony Brook, MSW SUNY Stony Brook

Short Bio

Louise Stoney has worked on early care and education policy and finance for over twenty-five years. She has authored numerous reports and articles on early childhood finance, most recently Smarter Reform: Moving Beyond Single Program Solutions to an Early Care and Education System as well as the widely cited publication Financing Child care in The United States: An Expanded Catalog of Current Strategies. Louise has played a key role in the Linking Economic Development and Child Care project since its inception. She has conducted economic impact research (It Makes Work Pay: An Economic Development Strategy for Kansas and The Child Care Industry: An Integral Part of Long Island's Economy); has explored innovative management approaches that aim to maximize efficiency, help improve quality and stabilize the early care and education industry (Collective Management of Early Childhood Programs); and has helped many state study teams roll-out reports, craft recommendations and envelop new policy options.

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