Founding Facts
This is the year our organization was founded.
What is 1985?
Our organization has always served clients in this sector.
What is Early Education? - early childhood educators and early childhood education programs.
This is the year we rebranded as thread.
What is 2008? (will accept 2009 - when we went public with the name).
This long-time agency resource provided books, toys, and curriculum to early childhood programs.
What is the Lending Library (or Resource Library)?
These are the cities where our current offices are located.
What is Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau?
We reach over 10,000 of this customer market annually with free services.
Who are families?
Our company was originally known by this name.
What is Child Care Connection, Inc.
This is the primary function of family services.
What is helping families learn about, find, and afford quality child care?
Between these two years, we moved our primary offices across the state.
What is 2023 and 2024?
This piece of art was commissioned for thread's 25th anniversary and created with partners.
What is the community quilt?
thread houses and manages these two early childhood systems and services.
What is Alaska SEED and Learn & Grow?
This thread team coaches and trains early educators and program administrators.
Who is the Professional Development team?
Our first office was in this city.
What is Anchorage, what is a closet in the DHSS?
This is the name of our long-time flagship service offering to early educators.
What is Professional Development training?
Learn & Grow was created this year.
What is 2016?
This holiday tradition at thread connected adult play to celebrating how young children learn.
What is Halloween or dressing up?
These are three of the five board committees.
What is 3 of: finance, audit, fund development, public policy or board development?
This is one of the areas of work we have focused to expand and grow over the last few years.
What is 1 of: public policy, fund development, or community services.
This is Mia Oxley.
Who is one of Child Care Connection's (thread's) first Executive Director/CEO's?
These partners made up the long-time Child Care Resource and Referral Network.
Who is Thrivalaska (formally Play N Learn) and the Southeast Childhood Collective (formally SEA-AEYC)?
Our organization began leading this line of business in 2005.
What is Alaska SEED?
This 2012 statewide quality initiative replaced cribs in every child care program across the state.
What was the Safe Sleep for Alaska's Babies Campaign?
These are thread's five values.
What is Empowerment, Access, Child Care Professionalism, Children's Rights, and Entrepreneurial-Incubator?
These are the Alaska SEED wage awards we advocate for and provide to early educators.
What are ROOTS? (Retaining Our Outstanding Teachers Stipends)
This was the company's first service.
What is the resource lending library?
Prior to the Summit, for over 10 years this was thread's signature community event.
What is the Book Party in the Park?
This was the first year thread began the Summit on the Economic Impact of Early Care and Learning.
What was 2015?
thread's 30th anniversary celebrated this ABC project - what did ABC stand for?
What is the Art by Children project?
This is one of thread's (3) strategic-goals.
What is:
1. Stabilize child care through funding, services/supports, data and advocacy.
2. Innovate, educate and advocate for diverse funding and system resources to strengthen and support a thriving child care sector.
3. Build agency/organization infrastructure and capacity to implement long-term vision, strategic plan and continue to provide quality services and supports.
This is one of our fund development campaigns.
What is 1 of: Pick.Click.Give., Annual Grow thread campaign, Summit sponsorships, thread Awards sponsorships?
This is the name of thread's new 10-year business plan to drive change in the child care sector.
What is Child Care Works?