In 2009 a study was conducted of Quality New York (QNY), a New York City-based AFP, to determine what the AFP's contributions were to improvements in program quality (Stephens, 2009). The study's findings are informative and have implications beyond the individual AFP studied. In particular, the results highlight how important it is far AFPs to collect and analyze data and turn the data into information. This information is important not only for internal use within the AFP but also, perhaps more importantly, because it can be invaluable to public policy and research. Specifically, the study sought to measure how the quality of participating early care and education programs improves during their participation in QNY, identify how components of QNY contribute to improvement, and, based on these findings, consider what components of QNY might be replicated and which system-wide policies and practices adopted. (author abstract)