Grantees
We work together with our invited grantees to improve the mental, emotional, and behavioral health and well-being of young children, especially those from low-income families and under-resourced communities or other minoritized groups.2025 Grantees
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc.
Project
A grant to support the ACLU’s efforts to defend early childhood education and the rights of working parents, with a focus on opposing attempts to dismantle diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in federally funded education programs, including Head Start.
Bipartisan Policy Center
Project
A two-year grant (2024 and 2025) to support the Economic Policy Team at Bipartisan Policy Center to conduct research and policy work in paid family leave and refundable child tax credits for working families and their children.
Blueprint Labs
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Project
A two-year (2024 and 2025) grant to Blueprint Labs, a research lab that uses data and economics to uncover the consequences of policy decisions and improve society. With this grant, Blueprint Labs will conduct six research projects involving lottery-based preschool programs to assess the long-term impacts of preschool on student outcomes.
Capita
Project
Capita is an independent think tank and community whose purpose is to build a future in which all children and families flourish. This grant supports phase two of the Stay-at-Home Parents Project, to conduct surveys and focus groups, and to advocate with elected officials and their staff concerning the vital role of stay-at-home parents in caring for America’s children.
Child Care Aware of America
Project
Child Care Aware of America works to ensure that all families have access to quality, affordable child care. With this two-year (2024 and 2025) grant, Child Care Aware of America will launch its Financing Child Care Initiative, creating an actionable path forward on how to achieve a long-term solution for financing child care in the U.S.
Home Grown
Project
Our annual membership dues support this national collaborative of funders committed to improving the quality of and access to home-based child care.
Our two-year grant (2024 and 2025) supports the Thriving Providers Project to compensate family, friend, and neighbor caregivers serving a diverse population in New York City to understand the degree to which stabilizing the economic well-being of providers improves the availability and quality of care for young children.
Institute for Medicaid Innovation
Project
Our three-year grant (2024 to 2026) supports the Institute for Medicaid Innovation’s Doula Learning & Action Collaborative, which focuses on galvanizing key Medicaid partners, community-based organizations, and doulas to reduce inequities in perinatal care experiences and outcomes. With IMI’s learning collaborative model, the state-based teams work together to identify key barriers and then foster systemic changes to expand and improve doula care within Medicaid programs.
Maine Association for the Education of Young Children
Project
A two-year (2025 and 2026) grant to the MaineAEYC for its work on the Right from the Start Coalition supporting a comprehensive advocacy and policy engagement strategy aimed at securing long-term financial commitments for early childhood education policies and programs in Maine.
Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance
Project
Our two-year grant (2025 and 2026) supports policy advocacy and funding for maternal mental health programs, including the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline, the Maternal Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Program, and the MOMs Act.
Mathematica, Inc.
Project
Mathematica uses data science, social science, and technology to improve public well-being. This grant supports research to evaluate the impacts of Washington, DC’s Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund, an initiative to supplement child care and early educators’ wages and achieve pay parity with public school teachers.
National Center for Children in Poverty
Bank Street College of Education
Institution
- Bank Street College of Education
Project
A two-year grant (2025 and 2026) to support a resource analysis of social–emotional-focused supports in early care and education programs and provide consultation to Maine, New York, and Delaware. The findings will help partners identify and address gaps in existing support systems to enhance school readiness outcomes for young children.
PlayReadVIP National Center
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Project
PlayReadVIP National Center supports parents by utilizing play and reading to enhance early relational health, and by using video feedback as a tool for parents and caregivers by reinforcing their strengths. This two-year (2024 and 2025) grant supports the National Center in creating a financially sustainable business model based on direct billing and reimbursement that will lead to additional program sites.
Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health
Project
A two-year grant (2024 and 2025) that supports ‘Improving Maternal Mental Health by Embedding Community Health Workers in Obstetric Settings,’ a pilot project to study the potential benefits and challenges of integrating community health workers in obstetric clinics with a high percentage of Medi-Cal patients.
A second grant (2025) supports the Maternity and Postpartum Care Payment Reform Expert Workgroup, which will convene 8-12 leading maternity care financing experts to publish and disseminate a report on the maternity care reimbursement reform. The report will provide insight into alternative payment strategies to improve maternal health outcomes.
Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center
Vanderbilt University
Project
The three-year general operating support grant (2024 to 2026) to sustain and expand the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center. The Center translates research in child development into state-level policies and public investments and provides guidance to state leaders on the most effective investments states can make to ensure all young children thrive.
Reach Out and Read
Project
A two-year grant (2025–2026) will support Reach Out and Read in its efforts to secure Medicaid reimbursement for its program. The funding will cover provider training, quality assessment, and an evaluation of the parent/caregiver experience, with the long-term goal of making Reach Out and Read a permanent component of how Medicaid managed care plans support children’s health.
Stanford University Center on Early Childhood
Project
A two-year grant (2024 and 2025) to support the Stanford University Center on Early Childhood in the development, pilot testing, and evaluation of FIND-PD. FIND-PD is an online, self-paced, multi-level training series for early childhood educators. The training series builds on caregivers’ existing capabilities and offers practical strategies to enhance positive interactions, build child skills, and reduce challenging child behavior. The Center has developed a 24-month plan to expand the program.
Wisconsin Early Childhood Association
Wisconsin Early Childhood Association (WECA) advocates for early childhood professionals and strong early care and education in Wisconsin. This two-year grant (2025 and 2026) supports collaboration with Civitas Strategies and others to develop a tax education coaching program that enables family child care providers to accurately prepare their own taxes.
Zero To Three
Project
A two-year grant (2024 and 2025) for the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health-Financing Policy Project, providing technical assistance to state leadership teams to develop and implement financing policy plans that support the healthy development of very young children. Technical assistance will include collaborative learning, resource development, and expert consultation.
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