About

The Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation (TLLCCF) is a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization dedicated to making America better by improving early care and education. Our focus is to improve the quality of programs that care for and educate children from birth through age five, and enlist and enlighten others to do the same.

   “The Foundation recognizes that quality early care and education depends on the expertise of teachers and providers.”

To that end, we honor and reward early education teachers dedicated to excellence, support nonprofit and nonsectarian child care centers, provide art and cultural programs to child care centers serving low income areas, and advocate for early care and education every day. TLLCCF’s funds have benefited thousands of children, child care centers, child care teachers and educational scholarships at many outstanding child care agencies and academic institutions throughout the nation.

Terri Lynne Lokoff/Children's TYLENOL® National Child Care Teacher Awards, Child Care Center Enhancement Grants, and Lois B. Cohan Museums to Go. The foundation also provides funds for early care and education professional conferences, and education scholarships in the field of ECE.

We are committed to ensuring the availability of affordable, high-quality child care for all children in order to reap the educational, societal and economic benefits that will follow for all Americans. The societal benefits generated as a result of children attending high-quality early care and education programs are documented in The High Scope Perry Preschool Study through Age 40 summary, which concludes that every dollar invested in early care and education has a return of $17.

The long-term benefits translate into savings on remedial and special education, reduces the number reliant on welfare, and entering the prison system. Children who have had the benefit of high-quality early care and education contribute to society as taxpayers with higher earning potential. The children are also at a lower risk for becoming teenage parents and drug users.

Recognizing the need to raise the status of child care teachers and the need for quality child care, the Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation (TLLCCF) created the Terri Lynne Lokoff/Children's TYLENOL® National Child Care Teacher Awards.

This award acknowledges the critical role of child care teachers in providing quality early care and education. Child care teachers from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and on U.S. Military bases and installations around the world are invited to apply.

About the Award:

   Fifty teachers win each year.
   Each award recipient receives $500 for the teacher's personal use and      up to $500 to implement the project.
   An award ceremony takes place each spring in Pennsylvania.
   Hotel and transportation are provided for the recipients.

   o A paid trip to historic Philadelphia
   o Meet with peers and exchange ideas
   o Excellent educational experience
   o FUN: portraits, special ceremony, after party

   Out of the 50 teachers, one receives The Helene Marks Award and the honor of being named the National Child Care Teacher of the Year, and receives an additional $1,000. Contenders for this award are the top ten scorers of the 50 recipients who answer a series of questions, scores based on a rubric.
   The TLLCCF has proudly presented this prestigious award since 1994.
The Lois B. Cohan Museums to Go provides $500 to child care centers serving at-risk children and low-income families to bring an age-appropriate cultural, art, music, theater and educational programs from outstanding local museums and institutions to the classroom.

Child Care Center Enhancement Grants are presented each year to non-profit, non-sectarian child care centers in the Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. The child care centers are invited to submit applications for grants, which afford the centers an opportunity to implement specific changes to improve the quality of care provided to children. A committee of TLLCCF board members and early childhood educators and specialists review each application.

The Lois B. Cohan Museums to Go provides $500 to child care centers serving at-risk children and low-income families to bring an age-appropriate cultural, art, music, theater and educational programs from outstanding local museums and institutions to the classroom.