2021 Grants Awarded: Early Childhood Development
| Organization | Amount | Location | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advocate Charitable Foundation | $60,000 | Park Ridge, IL | description |
| Advocate Children's Hospital Healthy Steps Program, in conjunction with Advocate Medical Group, will continue to engage and support physician practices serving socially-vulnerable communities to promote effective screening and management for child mental health issues and unmet social needs. | |||
| Build Initiative | $50,000 | Boston, MA | description |
| This grant provides general operating support to BUILD. | |||
| Child Care Services Association: TEACH | $50,000 | Chapel Hill, NC | description |
| This is a general operating support grant for T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood National Center. | |||
| First Up | $50,000 | Philadelphia, PA | description |
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This is a general operating support grant | |||
| Illinois Action for Children | $80,000 | Chicago, IL | description |
| This grant provides general operating support to Illinois Action for Children. | |||
| Latino Policy Forum | $60,000 | Chicago, IL | description |
| This is a general operating grant to Latino Policy Forum. | |||
| National Association for the Education of Young Children | $50,000 | Washington DC | description |
Building on work carried out through current and previous Stone Grants, NAEYC will advance the quality of early childhood higher education programs by using NAEYC accreditation as a lever and engaging higher education leaders in championing investments in degree programs that prepare an effective, diverse, well-prepared and well-compensated ECE profession. | |||
| New America Foundation | $80,000 | Washington, D.C. | description |
| This grant supports New America's Early & Elementary Education Policy Program to continue to inject PreK-3rd grade policy ideas into the national education conversation and produce new policy insights to propel PreK-3rd reforms in states, school districts, communities, and schools. | |||
| ParentChild+ | $60,000 | Mineola, NY | description |
| This grant provides general operating support to ParentChild+. | |||
| Start Early | $115,000 | Chicago, IL | description |
| Start Early, formerly The Ounce, will: (1) Capitalize on opportunities to advance the early childhood (EC) system in Illinois; (2) Advance the EC workforce, and (3) Lift up learnings for Illinois to inform and benefit from national conversations. | |||
| Strategies for Children | $100,000 | Boston, MA | description |
| This grant supports Strategies for Children to ensure that increasing public investments and policies are aligned, scalable and targeted to improve the lives of low-income children. | |||