Carl Sussman is the principal of Sussman Associates, a Newton, Massachusetts-based management and community development consulting practice with an expertise in developing and financing early childhood facilities. Sussman was a founding member of the National Children’s Facilities Network. He helped start and managed the Child Care Capital Investment Fund and now serves on its board of directors. Sussman is the primary technical consultant to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation’s national child care facilities program and in that capacity helped craft Connecticut’s School Readiness bond financing legislation. He also consults to a number of facilities funds. He is the author of Building for the Future: A Guide to Facilities Loan Funds for Community-Based Child and Family Services and an article in Young Children, “Out of the Basement,” about facilities design. He conducts trainings, writes and speaks frequently about design, finance and development of quality early childhood facilities.