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 helped this national nonprofit organization that trains, supports, and sustains family child care educators.
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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.
The grant helped fund a three-year evaluation of a virtual (telehealth) version of Family Connects, a postpartum nurse home visiting model, and advocacy for implementing the model in New York State.
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 childcare 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.
A grant supported an evaluation of young children’s social emotional and language development acquisition in family and center-based child care during implementation of LENA programming in Washington DC.
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 grant funded a portion of salary support for an Associate Research Scientist at the Yale Child Study Center, to work with the Elevate team on the analysis of the MOMS administrative data from several key government systems in Washington DC: Medicaid, TANF, child welfare, education and additional data on earnings and wages.
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.
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.
This grant funded the Center to hire an external consultant to develop a strategic plan to evaluate the feasibility of establishing a multi-departmental “hub” to influence public and private policy in child and family behavioral health.
A grant funded the expansion into New York City of this national nonprofit organization that trains, supports, and sustains family child care educators.
A grant supported senior fellow Katharine Stevens in her work examining the ways in which the science of early brain development relates to child care policies.
This grant funded a study of the impact of monthly, unconditional cash gifts to low-income mothers and their children in the first four years of the child’s life.
This grant funded longitudinal administration of a survey to assess changes in family needs and the supply, types, and quality of child care available across the country, to make recommendations to strengthen support for working families.
Our annual membership dues supported 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 the Urban Institute to write eight policy briefs to leverage existing federal programs and resources in support of home-based child care providers.
Our grant funded 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.
Our general operating support grant helped 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.
This grant has helped the organization develop a value-based payment model to support the pilot of IMPACT, a pediatric model of healthcare delivery that includes HealthySteps and will integrate maternal care, behavioral health care, and pediatric primary care, to promote optimal early childhood development.
As a collaborative member, we also made a grant to EdAdvance for a Covid 19 emergency fund that provided financial assistance to Connecticut child care providers.
As a collaborative member, we also made grants to a national Covid 19 emergency fund to provide personal protective equipment, technical and financial assistance to home-based child care providers.
We also supported Home Grown’s to Child Trends to help fund the development of a 50-state scan of home-based provider policies and in-depth case studies of five exemplar states.
This grant contributed to a Covid 19 emergency fund that provided financial assistance to New York City child care providers.
This grant contributed to a Covid-19 relief fund that provided emergency personal protective equipment, technical and financial assistance to child care providers in Washington DC.
The grant supported implementation of the MOMS Partnership in Bridgeport and for the Partnership’s data integration in New Haven.
A grant to Walter Gilliam, Ph.D. supported a series of studies on the impact of Covid 19 on child care providers.
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