Seeking to improve lives by advancing research and training in neuroscience, children’s health, medicine, and education.
Seeking to improve the understanding and treatment of child and adolescent ADHD and depression, and to improve access to mental health care for children and their families.
Committed to promoting breakthrough neuroscience research, improving early childhood care and education (particularly among low income children), and enhancing the development of teachers and leaders in independent schools.
Dedicated to the advancement of children’s health in Maine, primarily by improving their oral health.
Our general operating support grant helps this national nonprofit organization train, support, and sustain family child care educators.
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Two grants were made to BPC. The first grant supports conducting focus groups and interviews of working parents, with children under age five, not using formal child care options to learn the reasons for this choice. Survey results will be summarized in a national report (“Understanding the One-Third”) to educate the public and lawmakers and provide a guide for policy action. The second grant supports ongoing efforts to expand access to paid family leave and permanently enhance the Child Tax Credit.
Our membership dues support the collaborative in its mission to bring the collective voice and resources of philanthropy to build and sustain a comprehensive early childhood system in Connecticut.
Our membership dues support this national collaborative of early childhood funders, which is focused on increasing the effectiveness of philanthropic investment in equity-focused approaches to early childhood and promoting policies that support young children and their families.
Our general operating support grant helps this organization reach parents and newborns to offer free, nurse home visiting and connection to local services to meet their needs. In addition, the organization engages with policymakers to support sustainability of local programming and collaborates with community-based resources and care systems.
Our general operating support grant helps the Center, which translates scientific research and serves as a non-partisan resource for policymakers, practitioners, and lay audiences, has coined the terms “toxic stress” and “serve and return.”
A grant supports the development of a sustainable, value-based payment model for dyadic care in New York that integrates child behavioral health, parenting, and caregiver behavioral health into pediatric care, and advocacy for this approach.
Our annual membership dues support this national collaborative of funders committed to improving the quality of and access to home-based child care.
As a collaborative member, we made a grant to support Home Grown’s initiative to review and create guidelines for home-based child care quality standards in Pre-K and conduct an economic analysis of the cost of funding child care that adheres to these standards.
We also supported Home Grown’s initiative to partner with five state and local governments to develop effective child care networks that offer high-quality child development services, improve children’s mental, physical, social and economic well–being.
Our membership dues support the Group’s mission to encourage and advance strategic systemic changes that will improve results for young children aged birth to 8 throughout the state.
This three-year grant funds the expansion of a free, online curriculum that teaches pediatric residents throughout the US how to promote brain development and strengthen parent-child relationships during routine well-child visits and the development of a companion series of brief videos for parents.
A grant to Niskanen Center will help build–out their Policy and Welfare department, which prioritizes family stability and child well-being as they are impacted by family economic security issues such as child payments, paid leave and child care.
This two-year grant is to fund the development of an online professional development platform to disseminate and scale Filming Interactions to Nurture Development (FIND), a brief, flexible, evidence-based video coaching program for caregivers of young children.
The two-year general operating support grant helps the Center, which translates research in child development into state-level policies and public investments, such as paid family leave and child care subsidies, and provides guidance to state leaders on the most effective investments states can make to ensure all young children thrive.
Our grant supported a webinar featuring a bipartisan panel of scholars to discuss trends in childhood poverty with the aim of highlighting areas of shared agreement that can serve as touchstones for action, including negotiations on extending the expanded Child Tax Credit.
A two–year grant to Walter Gilliam, Ph.D. to hire staff and develop training materials to expand his early childhood mental health consultation model, which provides expert consultation to child care providers to improve the emotional climate of their classrooms and their relationships with children and parents.
A one-year general operating support grant for the MOMS Partnership and the Elevate Policy Lab. Elevate has been scaling the MOMS Partnership beyond New Haven, Connecticut establishing eight new sites, while developing strategies and tools to support the sites and to evaluate the program’s impact.
A two-year grant to provide technical assistance to states to advance Infant Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) financing policies that support healthy development of very young children, emphasizing a continuum of developmentally appropriate supports and services inclusive of promotion, prevention, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. Technical assistance includes collaborative learning, resource development, and expert consultation.
Our Grantees: View an alphabetical list of all grantees.