Early Childhood Development
Grants Awarded
Year | Organization and Summary | Amount | Location | Description | |
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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. |
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2022 | The Regents of the University of California | $80,000 | Berkeley, CA |
This grant support the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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2022 | Children Now | $100,000 | Oakland, CA |
This grant provides general operating support for Children Now. |
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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. |
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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. |
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2022 | ParentChild+ | $60,000 | Mineola, NY |
This grant provides general operating support to ParentChild+. |
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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. |
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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. |
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2022 | Latino Policy Forum | $60,000 | Chicago, IL |
This is a general operating grant to Latino Policy Forum. |
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2022 | Illinois Action for Children | $80,000 | Chicago, IL |
This grant provides general operating support to Illinois Action for Children. |
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2022 | First Up | $60,000 | Philadelphia, PA |
This is a general operating support grant. |
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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. |
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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. |
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2022 | Build Initiative | $50,000 | Boston, MA |
This grant provides general operating support to BUILD. |