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Early Childhood Development
Grants Awarded

Year Organization and Summary Amount Location Description
2023 University of Colorado $50,000 Denver, CO

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

2023 The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley $80,000 Berkeley, CA

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

2023 Research Foundation of the City University of New York $70,000 New York, NY

This is a general operating support grant.

2023 Pennsylvania Partnership for Children $80,000 Harrisburg, PA

This is a general operating support grant.

2023 New Venture Fund $60,000 Washington DC

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.

2023 National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) $100,000 Washington DC

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.

2023 Jumpstart $40,000 Boston, MA

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

2023 HealthConnect One $40,000 Chicago, IL

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.

2023 Erikson Institute $100,000 Chicago, IL

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

2023 Council for a Strong America $50,000 Washington DC

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.

2023 Children Now $100,000 Oakland, CA

This is a general operating support grant.

2023 BUILD Initiative $50,000 Boston, MA

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.

2023 Alliance for Early Success $50,000 Washington DC

This is a general operating support grant.

2023 Strategies for Children $100,000 Boston, MA

This is a general operating support grant.

2023 Start Early $100,000 Chicago, IL

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.

2023 ParentChild+ $60,000 New York, NY

This is a general operating support grant.

2023 New America Foundation $60,000 Washington DC

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.

2023 Latino Policy Forum $60,000 Chicago, IL

This is a general operating support grant.

2023 Illinois Action for Children $80,000 Chicago, IL

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

2023 First Up $60,000 Philadelphia, PA

This is a general operating support grant.

2023 Child Care Services Association $50,000 Chapel Hill, NC

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

2023 BUILD Initiative $50,000 Boston, MA

This is a general operating support grant.

2023 Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation $60,000 Downers Grove, IL

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.

2021 Advocate Charitable Foundation $60,000 Downers Grove, IL

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.

2021 BUILD Initiative $50,000 Boston, MA

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.

2021 Child Care Services Association $50,000 Chapel Hill, NC

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.

2021 Children Now $85,000 Oakland, CA

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.

2021 Council for a Strong America $50,000 Washington District of Columbia

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.

2021 Erikson Institute $140,000 Chicago, IL

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.

2021 First Up $50,000 Philadelphia, PA

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.

2021 HealthConnect One $40,000 Chicago, IL

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.

2021 Illinois Action for Children $80,000 Chicago, IL

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

2021 Jumpstart for Young Children $40,000 Boston, MA

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.

2021 Latino Policy Forum $60,000 Chicago, IL

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.

2021 National Association for the Education of Young Children $50,000 Washington District of Columbia

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.

2021 New American Foundation $80,000 Washington District of Columbia

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.

2021 New Venture Fund $60,000 Washington District of Columbia

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.

2021 ParentChild+ $60,000 New York, NY

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.

2021 Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children $100,000 Harrisburg, PA

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.

2021 Research Foundation of the City University of New York $80,003 Brooklyn, NY

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

2021 Start Early $115,000 Chicago, IL

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.

2021 The Regents of the University of California, Center for the Study of Child Care Employment $100,000 Berkeley

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.

2021 University of Colorado, Denver $50,000 Aurora, CO

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.

2022 University of Colorado, Denver $50,000 Denver, CO

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.

2022 The Regents of the University of California $80,000 Berkeley, CA

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

2022 Research Foundation of the City University of New York $70,000 New York, NY

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

2022 Pennsylvania Partnership for Children $90,000 Harrisburg, PA

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.

2022 New Venture Fund $60,000 Washington DC

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.

2022 National Association for the Education of Young Children $100,000 Washington DC

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.

2022 Jumpstart for Young Children $40,000 Boston, MA

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.

2022 HealthConnect One $40,000 Chicago, IL

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.

2022 Erikson Institute $120,000 Chicago, IL

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.

2022 Council for a Strong America $50,000 Washington, DC

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

2022 Children Now $100,000 Oakland, CA

This grant provides general operating support for Children Now.

2022 Strategies for Children $100,000 Boston, MA

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.

2022 Start Early $115,000 Chicago, IL

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.

2022 ParentChild+ $60,000 Mineola, NY

This grant provides general operating support to ParentChild+.

2022 New America Foundation $80,000 Washington, DC

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.

2022 National Association for the Education of Young Children $50,000 Washington, DC

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.

2022 Latino Policy Forum $60,000 Chicago, IL

This is a general operating grant to Latino Policy Forum.

2022 Illinois Action for Children $80,000 Chicago, IL

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

2022 First Up $60,000 Philadelphia, PA

This is a general operating support grant.

2022 Child Care Services Association: TEACH $50,000 Chapel Hill, NC

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

2022 Advocate Charitable Foundation $60,000 Park Ridge, IL

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.

2022 Build Initiative $50,000 Boston, MA

This grant provides general operating support to BUILD.