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Early Childhood Continuums (ECC)

RFP: Community Facilitator for Pāhoa Promise

Early Childhood Action Strategy (ECAS) is currently seeking a contractor to serve as a Community Facilitator for Pāhoa Promise, the Early Childhood Continuum network based in Pāhoa, Hawaiʻi, starting on or about December 1, 2026.

Attached please find Request for Proposal (RFP) documents for the Community Facilitator contract.  Information about Hawaiʻiʻs Early Childhood Continuum work can be found at the Healthy, Safe, and Thriving website, and info specifically about the Pāhoa Promise community effort can be found at this website.

If you are interested, please submit your proposal to me (vivian@ecashawaii.org) by Friday, November 6, at 4:00 PM. 

Please pass this information along to other organizations or parties of interest, and feel free to reach out with any questions.

RFP Information
RFP Evaluation Rubric

Early Childhood Continuums are community-centered collaborations working to ensure every keiki is Healthy, Safe and Thriving and ready to learn from their first day in kindergarten.

Over the past years, 2 communities have brought together a network of health, early childhood, education, and family serving partners to test and develop community-centered solutions. Pāhoa Promise Partnership, on Hawaiʻi Island, and the Waimānalo Early Education ʻUpena partnership, on O‘ahu, are community-based efforts to develop an Early Childhood Continuum of support for young keiki and their ʻohana.

www.healthysafethriving.org