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In the popular baseball movie, Field of Dreams, the character played by Kevin Costner hears a voice urging, “Build it and they will come . . . ” Although the purpose behind the message was unclear, he knew he should begin by building a baseball field on his Iowa farm. A similar situation occurred in Birmingham, Alabama in 1994, except that the cast of characters was different, and instead of a baseball field, the vision was a community-university partnership to build a world-class child care center.
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Bradbard, M.R., Henton, J., Mize, J., Grover, J., Roberts, R. (1999). Build it and They Will Come . . . The Birmingham Early Learning Center: Creating a Vision for the Future of Alabama’s Children. In: Chibucos, T.R., Lerner, R.M. (eds) Serving Children and Families Through Community-University Partnerships. Outreach Scholarship, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5053-2_2
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