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 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.
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Council for a Strong America is a national, bipartisan nonprofit that mobilizes business leaders, retired admirals and generals, and law enforcement leaders to promote evidence-based policy solutions that ensure children, especially from vulnerable communities, are prepared to succeed. With this grant, the Council for a Strong America will advocate to strengthen federal policies for child care and children’s nutrition.
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 grant supports creating a cross-sector return on investment calculator that includes short- and long-term Medicaid savings to demonstrate the value of HealthySteps to various audiences. Our grant also supports the HealthySteps National Office to build and launch an Expert Faculty program that trains health care industry leaders to assist in onboarding new sites.
LENA is a national nonprofit whose mission is to transform children’s futures through early talk technology and data-driven programs. With this grant LENA will expand its measurement of the child’s audio environment beyond ‘serve and return’ to determine if factors such as child and parent initiated interaction, peer interaction, and background noise levels impact social emotional functioning and early language skills.
Blueprint Labs is a non-partisan research lab that uses data and economics to uncover the consequences of policy decisions and improve society. This grant will launch a research initiative designed to equip stakeholders with actionable evidence on early childhood education performance and fund Blueprint Labs’ first convening to facilitate idea-sharing and collaboration among preschool practitioners, researchers, and funders.
Video Interaction Project is an individualized parent-child intervention that is delivered to families at the time of pediatric check-ups. This grant will support the Video Interaction Project in building a sustainable funding model, including hiring a part-time project manager and consulting with Medicaid funding experts.
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