by Adena White | Mar 27, 2024 | E8 Foundations, Health
At Excel by Eight, one of our goals is to ensure that all women receive complete, high-quality preconception, prenatal, and postpartum care. Candace’s experience highlights the importance of doula support in advocating for patients’ voices to be heard during...
by Adena White | Mar 6, 2024 | E8 Foundations
Today, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed an executive order to create the Arkansas Strategic Committee for Maternal Health. Excel by Eight looks forward to working alongside this steering committee to improve health outcomes for mothers and babies across the state....
by Adena White | Feb 1, 2024 | E8 Foundations
Child care workers in Arkansas are now eligible to participate in the state’s Child Care Assistance Program. The Arkansas Department of Education receives a Child Care Development Block Grant totaling more than $100 million each year from the U.S. Department of...
by admin | Jan 30, 2024 | E8 Foundations
Workforce participation a priority for Excel by Eight business coalition LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Jan. 30, 2024) – A statewide business coalition tasked with tackling Arkansas’s child care crisis convened for the first time on Friday, Jan. 26, at the Supply Chain Hall of...
by Adena White | Nov 10, 2023 | E8 Foundations
In late October, the Excel by Eight Foundations Collaborative gathered in Little Rock with stakeholders and partners for a Summit to dive deeper into the goals and recommendations that have been developed by the collaborative’s working groups over the past year. This...
by Adena White | Jul 26, 2023 | E8 Foundations
For the past several months, Excel by Eight has been undergoing a planning process to review and update our policy agenda to improve health and education outcomes for infants and toddlers. We kicked off our planning process in November 2022 with a daylong summit that...
