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The Rhode Island Early Childhood Investment Council

Selected for their commitment to the success of all Rhode Island’s children, the Rhode Island Early Childhood Investment Council will work together to identify and promote winning strategies for improving the future prospects of our state’s youngest, poorest and most vulnerable children.

David Caprio
President & Chief Executive Officer
Children’s Friend

Robert A. DiMuccio
President & Chief
Executive Officer
AMICA
Anthony Maione
President & Chief
Executive Officer
United Way of
Rhode Island
           
Saul Kaplan
Chief Catalyst
Business Innovation Factory
Patricia Martinez
Director
Rhode Island Dept. of Children, Youth and Families
Lenette Azzi-Lessing, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor of
Social Work
Wheelock College
           
Roger Nozaki Director Howard R. Swearer Center for Public Service, Associate Dean of College Brown University Laurie White
President
Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce

Thomas Lyons, Esq.
Attorney
Of Strauss, Factor, Laing & Lyons

           
Joseph J.
MarcAurele
President & Chief Operating Officer, member of the Board of Directors
Washington Trust Bancorp, Inc.
Bahjat Shariff
VP of Operations &
Operating Partner
Howley Bread Group/ Panera Bread
John C. Warren
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
The Washington Trust Company
           
Patricia Flanagan, M.D.
Director of the Teen Tot Clinic
Hasbro Hospital;
Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Brown University;
And member of the Rhode Island Foundation Board

For more information on the benefits of effective early childhood investment, please review the following resources.

The Economic Promise of Investing in High-Quality Preschool
A Statement by the Research and Policy Committee of the Committee
for Economic Development

A Science-Based Framework for Early Childhood Policy
Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University

Exceptional Returns: Economic, Fiscal, and Social Benefits of Investment in Early
Childhood Development
Robert G. Lynch

Investing in Disadvantaged Young Children is an Economically Efficient Policy
James J. Heckman