Early Childhood Development
Grants Awarded

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant for the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will support Jumpstart’s workforce development program in San Francisco and national workforce development. The Jumpstart/EDvance Practicum connects future teachers with high-quality coaching, mentorship, and guided hands-on experience, resulting in better outcomes for children and a sustainable, well-prepared pipeline of early educators.

Addressing the increased need for racial equity in health for birthing families, and building on the success of the first year launch of its Birth Equity Action Network, a community-involved policy and advocacy project promoting birth equity, HealthConnect One will continue community-led advocacy and collective action.

A grant will support Erikson Institute’s Early Teaching and Learning Academy and Policy and Leadership Department, which, through professional development opportunities and key policy initiatives, help young children gain equitable access to high-quality care and early educational experiences that set the foundation for optimal development, lifelong health, learning, and success.

Council for a Strong America (CSA) will build policymakers’ and the public’s support for increased investments in high-quality early childhood education and care, coupled with investments in a strong early childhood workforce, by elevating the voices of members from law enforcement and business communities in Illinois, California, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.

This is a general operating support grant.

The BPS Department of Early Childhood will partner with the University of Massachusetts, Boston, to create an online, credit-bearing course for directors of preschool programs to support them as UPK programs as instructional leaders. There will be a parallel course for leaders to develop their technological skills to support instruction.

This grant ensures that increasing public investments and policies are aligned, scalable, and targeted to improve the lives of low-income children.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will (1) implement the Road Map (defined below) around four issues; (2) educate, engage, and activate key state leaders, policymakers, and stakeholders; and (3) influence relevant federal and national conversations and activities impacting the early childhood education (ECE) workforce and incorporate related learnings into Illinois’ efforts.

This grant will (1) advance early childhood policy at the national and state levels, including policy to support a statewide prenatal-to-five system that is comprehensive, focused on quality, and inclusive of all early learners; and (2) produce and disseminate awareness building tools highlighting various impacts of the Ounce’s longitudinal Follow-Up Study of Educare Chicago (FUS).

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.

This project will identify the structural barriers and policy conditions that negatively impact higher education access and the success of early childhood educators, and highlight examples of strategies to reduce these barriers. Emphasis will be placed on educators of color and bilingual educators.

This is a general operating support grant

This is a general operating support grant.

The T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood National Center will develop strategies and support policy development to advance education, compensation, retention, and career mobility in support of a diverse, competent early childhood workforce for the nation’s young children.

This is a general operating support grant.

Healthy Steps, a program of Advocate Children’s Hospital, will continue to support the implementation of social needs screening, information and referral program to improve patient access and adherence to health and mental health care. Healthy Steps will work with Advocate Physician Partners to promote Healthy Steps online training modules to affiliated, community-based pediatric providers in the coming year.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will support workforce development program in San Francisco. The Jumpstart/EDvance Practicum connects future teachers with high-quality coaching, mentorship, and guided hands-on experience, resulting in better outcomes for children and a sustainable, well-prepared pipeline of early educators

This grant will support the execution of the workforce development objectives created through a multi-year expansion initiative that advances the goal of a universal, effective, and sustainable infant/early childhood mental health consultation (I/ECMHC) model and an expanded and qualified consultant workforce.

Building on the success of our Birth Equity Leadership Academy and energized by new leadership, this grant would support the launching of the Every Baby Our Baby Advocacy Network, including a new Advocacy/Policy Director, to increase our capacity for collective action and community-led advocacy for birth equity.

This grant will help maximize the use of the Illinois Risk and Reach Report as a go-to tool for stakeholders, continuing its dissemination strategy through June 2020, and beginning plans for the next iteration of the Report in 2021.

This grant will support Erikson’s Early Teaching and Learning Academy and the development of a sustainable professional development system.

Council for a Strong America (CSA) will build policymakers’ and the public’s support for increased investments in high-quality early childhood education and care, coupled with investments in a strong early childhood workforce, by elevating the voices of members from law enforcement and business communities in Illinois, California, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant for the Center for Study of Child Care Employment.

The BPS Department of Early Childhood will partner with the University of Massachusetts, Boston, to create an online, credit-bearing course for directors of preschool programs to support them as UPK programs as instructional leaders. There is a parallel course for teachers currently being created through another source of funding.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will support our administrative, legislative, and grassroots efforts to advance the early childhood system in Illinois, with a focus on infants and toddlers, children and families in priority populations, and the workforce.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant for T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood National Center.

This is a general operating support grant.

Advocate Children’s Hospital will develop a specialized lactation consulting program to enhance direct services and improve coordination across hospital locations.

This grant will increase understanding of and momentum to infuse P-3 content/strategies into principal preparation programs.

This is a general operating support grant for the Center for Study of Child Care Employment.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This will support a child care movement network that engages partners and stakeholders across policy, research, communications, and organizing to center racial and gender equity in child care in order to create and enact a bold, equitable agenda.

This project builds on and sustains work that helps states, higher education leaders, and advocates advance towards the vision of a diverse, effective, well-prepared, and well-supported ECE profession by developing resources that support equitable access to quality ECE higher education, and by supporting trusting, lasting, and effective family/educator advocacy partnerships.

This grant will support Jumpstart’s workforce development program in San Francisco and the roll-out of its workforce programming to all sites nationally.

Civic Leaders for Illinois Children, a project of the Illinois Network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, will build policymakers’ and the public’s support for increased investments in high-quality early childhood education, including investments in the early childhood workforce, by elevating the voices of law enforcement and business leaders.

HealthConnect will build an evidence-based case for the value of community-based doula models, promote sustainability for the workforce, and ensure that community-based doulas are included in national discussions with policymakers about their reimbursement, certification requirements, and the diversification and sustainability of the community-based doula workforce.

This grant will support Erikson Institute’s Early Teaching and Learning Academy and Policy and Leadership Department.

This is a general operating support grant.

BUILD Initiative will support Illinois’ leaders in building a high-quality, comprehensive ECE workforce system by assisting cross-agency, public, and private sector analyses of current foundational efforts.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will support Start Early’s administrative, legislative, and grassroots efforts to advance the early childhood system in Illinois, with a focus on infants and toddlers, children and families in priority populations, and the workforce.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant supports New America’s Early & Elementary Education Policy Program to continue to inject Birth-3rd grade policy ideas into the national education conversation and produce new policy insights to propel B-3rd reforms in states, school districts, communities, and schools.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant for T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood National Center.

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.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will increase understanding of and momentum to infuse P-3 content/strategies into principal preparation programs.

This is a general operating support grant for the Center for Study of Child Care Employment.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This will support a child care movement network that engages partners and stakeholders across policy, research, communications, and organizing to center racial and gender equity in child care in order to create and enact a bold, equitable agenda.

This project will help states, higher education leaders, and advocates make advances towards the vision of a diverse, effective, well-prepared, and well-supported ECE profession.

This grant will support Jumpstart’s workforce development program in San Francisco and the roll-out of its workforce programming to all sites nationally.

HealthConnect will build an evidence-based case for the value of community-based doula models, promote sustainability for the workforce, and ensure that community-based doulas are included in national discussions with policymakers about their reimbursement, certification requirements, and the diversification and sustainability of the community-based doula workforce.

This grant will support Erikson Institute’s Early Teaching and Learning Academy and Policy and Leadership Department.

Build policymakers’ and the public’s support for increased investments in high-quality early childhood education and care, coupled with investments in a strong early childhood workforce, by elevating the voices of members from law enforcement and business communities.

This is a general operating support grant.

BUILD Initiative will support Illinois’ leaders in building a high-quality, comprehensive ECE workforce system by assisting cross-agency, public, and private sector analyses of current foundational efforts.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will support Start Early’s administrative, legislative, and grassroots efforts to advance the early childhood system in Illinois, with a focus on infants and toddlers, children and families in priority populations, and the workforce.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant supports New America’s Early & Elementary Education Policy Program to continue to inject Birth-3rd grade policy ideas into the national education conversation and produce new policy insights to propel B-3rd reforms in states, school districts, communities, and schools.

This is a general operating support grant.

This general operating grant will support organizational initiatives advancing state public policies promoting excellence in Illinois early childhood education and child care.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant for T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood National Center.

This is a general operating support grant.

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.

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.

Support BUILD to partner with state leaders and teams to build racially equitable early childhood systems by developing/extending leadership capacity, increasing knowledge, reflection, and critical analysis skills, and the capacity to think and act strategically, forge networks across sectors, and seize opportunities to act within one’s role, authority, and influence.

The National Center will work with state partners to expand and strengthen its evidence-based T.E.A.C.H. Scholarship and Child Care WAGE$ early childhood workforce initiatives to reach more educators and promote equity and will implement new strategies to tackle longstanding and COVID-related challenges impacting educator retention and the teacher preparation pipeline.

Children Now continues to work on Cradle to Career data-sharing system for services to children and families throughout the State, and the credentialing system project that works towards building a well-prepared early childhood workforce.

Council for a Strong America will build policymakers’ and the public’s support for increased investments in high-quality early childhood education and care, coupled with investments in a strong early childhood workforce, by elevating the voices of members from law enforcement and business communities at the national and state levels.

A grant will support Erikson Institute’s Early Teaching and Learning Academy and Policy and Leadership Department, which, through professional development opportunities and key policy initiatives, help young children gain equitable access to high-quality care and early educational experiences which set the foundation for optimal development, lifelong health, learning, and success.

First Up works to improve the quality of early childhood education and care for all young children in our region. First Up’s work will impact professionals, programs, and systems, with a focus on serving those with the greatest need.

Funding to pay community-based birth workers is critical and largely absent, legislative action and Medicaid MCO funding can change this. This project will center on community-based birth workers in a storybook related to the sustainability of the profession, advocacy training, and an advocacy trip to Capitol Hill.

Illinois Action for Children supports organizational initiatives advancing state public policies promoting excellence in Illinois early childhood education and child care.

The Jumpstart SFSU Practicum connects future teachers with high-quality coaching, mentorship, and hands-on experience, resulting in better outcomes for children and a well-prepared pipeline of early educators.

This grant supports Latino Policy Forum’s Quality Bilingual ECE Programs for English Language Learners. The work focuses on strengthening the early childhood bilingual workforce pipeline and advancing recommendations and lessons learned with national stakeholders.The work focuses on strengthening the early childhood bilingual workforce pipeline and advancing
recommendations and lessons learned with national stakeholders.

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.

This grant supports New America’s Early & Elementary Education Policy Program to continue to inject Birth-3rd grade policy ideas into the national education conversation and produce new policy insights to propel B-3rd reforms in states, school districts, communities, and schools.

Support for the launch of a new child care movement network that engages partners and stakeholders across policy, research, communications, and organizing to center racial and gender equity in child care in order to create and enact a bold, equitable agenda.

ParentChild+ will support early childhood well-being and school readiness for families in historically marginalized communities by innovating and expanding our proven models during COVID and beyond. We will focus on growing our Family Child Care (FCC) model, piloting a One-on-One to FCC pipeline providing support for parents becoming providers.

This grant provides general operating support for Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children with an emphasis on early care and education and its intersections with child and maternal health. In addition, during the grant cycle funds will support data management and development particularly around child care workforce issues.

This grant provides general operating support for the New York City Early Childhood Research Network at the New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute.

Start Early respectfully works to further: (1) Capitalize on opportunities to advance the early childhood (EC) system in Illinois; (2) Advance the EC workforce, and (3) Lift up learning from states to inform federal early childhood investments and policies.

This grant provides general operating support for the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE) at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as resources to support CSCCE to engage in state-based work related to the implementation of American Rescue Plan funding.

Few principal preparation programs in institutions of higher education (IHE) incorporate meaningful attention to early childhood. The National P-3 Center will convene principal preparation faculty and P-3 leadership thinkers. The goal is to produce both a product and a group of IHE leaders that inspire additional engagement on this topic.

This will extend 2022 efforts by engaging experts, policymakers, and practitioners to collaboratively create metrics that can guide the incorporation of P-3 content and strategies into statewide policy for, and IHE implementation of, principal preparation programs. The final product will be a report that can inform states and IHEs.

This grant support the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment.

This grant provides general operating support for the New York City Early Childhood Research Network at the New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute.

This grant provides general operating support for Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children with an emphasis on early care and education and its intersections with child and maternal health.

This grant will support the launch of a new child care movement network that engages partners and stakeholders across policy, research, communications, and organizing to center racial and gender equity in child care in order to create and enact a bold, equitable agenda.

Working with its national, state- and community-based partners in geographies deemed ripe, NAEYC will combine federal insights and state-specific strategies that bring parent and provider voices together under an advocacy umbrella to push for systems improvements. Through this work, NAEYC and its partners will build stronger state-level infrastructure to engage parents and providers together in collaborating to increase investments and advance improvements in early childhood systems.

This grant supports the workforce development program in San Francisco and the roll-out of Jumpstart’s workforce programming to all sites nationally. The Jumpstart SFSU Practicum connects future teachers with high-quality coaching, mentorship, and hands-on experience, resulting in better outcomes for children and a strong pipeline of early educators.

Funding to pay community-based birth workers is critical and largely absent, legislative action and Medicaid MCO funding can change this. This project will convene a collective of community-based birth workers to build a data consortium providing evidence-based policy recommendations to ensure the sustainability and scale of this critical workforce. Key deliverables include the development of a data for action toolkit, evidence-based advocacy training, and virtual hill visits.

A grant will support Erikson Institute’s Early Teaching and Learning Academy and Policy and Leadership Department, which, through professional development opportunities and key policy initiatives, help young children gain equitable access to high-quality care and early educational experiences which set the foundation for optimal development, lifelong health, learning, and success.

Council for a Strong America will build policymakers’ and the public’s support for increased investments in high-quality early childhood education and care, coupled with investments in a strong early childhood workforce, by elevating the voices of members from law enforcement and business communities

This grant provides general operating support for Children Now.

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.

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.

This grant provides general operating support to ParentChild+.

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.

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.

This is a general operating grant to Latino Policy Forum.

This grant provides general operating support to Illinois Action for Children.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant for T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood National Center.

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.

This grant provides general operating support to BUILD.