The Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation to Present Dr. Dana Friedman, Port Washington, NY with the Child Care Advocate Award in Memory of Anne O. Krancer
King of Prussia, PA, October 25, 2008- The Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation (TLLCCF) has announced that nationally known Dr. Dana Friedman will be presented with its prestigious Child Care Advocate Award in Memory of Anne O. Krancer at the Foundation’s 21st Annual Rose Gala on October 25, 2008 at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel.
The Award is presented to an individual who has reached out to the child care community in an extraordinary way and who exemplifies the utmost consistency, concern, and commitment to quality child care. Dr. Friedman is being honored for her years of dedicated service to the child care community.
Dr. Dana Friedman is the executive director of The Early Years Institute. She has focused her talents and career as a researcher, policy analyst and community developer focusing on women, children, and family issues. She has worked for several national organizations and served as a consultant to major corporations, government agencies, and foundations. Prior to joining The Early Years Institute, Dr. Friedman was the project director of Early Care and Education-Long Island, a regional effort to improve the quality of early care and education created by five foundations.
Co-founder and former co-president of the Families and Work Institute (FWI), a non-profit research firm, Dr. Friedman focused on business, government and community efforts to help families care for their dependents. She continues to provide council to FWI. Prior to co-founding FWI, Dr. Friedman was a senior research associate at The Conference Board, a non-profit business think tank, where she created the Work and Family Information Center and the Work/Life Leadership Council in 1983.
Stated Suzanne du Pont-Postlewait, Foundation president, “We are grateful to Dr. Dana Friedman for all of her work in championing the cause of high-quality child care for all children. It is our distinct pleasure and it is only fitting to honor her with our highest award presented to an individual, the Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation’s Child Care Advocate Award in Memory of Anne O. Krancer. Her expertise in early care and education and work-family balance is an inspiration to all child care teachers and providers, working parents, human resource departments, and to those of us who are working to further improve early care and education in America.”
Observing its 21st year of making America better by improving early care and education, the Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation has dedicated its resources to improving the quality of child care for all children; supporting and elevating the status of child care teachers and providers; raising awareness of the need for affordable, quality child care; and, partnering with business and government in making child care a priority. TLLCCF is a nonprofit, nonsectarian 501(c)(3) organization established in 1987 in memory of Terri Lynne Lokoff, a devoted child care worker.