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.2022 Grantees
All Our Kin
Project
Our general operating support grant helped this national nonprofit organization that trains, supports, and sustains family child care educators.
Connecticut Early Childhood Funder Collaborative
Project
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.
Early Childhood Funders Collaborative
Project
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.
Family Connects International
Duke University
Project
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.
Harvard Center on the Developing Child
Project
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.”
Healthy Steps
Project
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.
Home-Grown Child Care
Project
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.
LENA
Project
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.
Maine Early Childhood Funders Group
Project
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.
Mental Health Outreach for Mothers (MOMS)
Project
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.
Mount Sinai Parenting Center
Project
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.
Niskanen Center
Project
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.
Phil Fisher, Ph.D.
Project
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.
Prenatal-to-3-Policy Impact Center
Project
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.
Walter Gilliam, Ph.D.
Yale Child Study Center
Project
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.
Yale Child Study Center
Project
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.
2021 Grantees
All Our Kin
Project
A grant funded the expansion into New York City of this national nonprofit organization that trains, supports, and sustains family child care educators.
American Enterprise Institute
Project
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.
Babies First Years
Teachers College
Project
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.
Bipartisan Policy Center
Project
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.
Connecticut Early Childhood Funder Collaborative
Project
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.
Early Childhood Funders Collaborative
Project
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.
Family Connects International
Duke University
Project
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.
Harvard Center on the Developing Child
Project
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.”
Healthy Steps
Project
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.
Home-Grown Child Care
Project
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.
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.
LENA
Project
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.
Maine Early Childhood Funders Group
Project
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.
Mental Health Outreach for Mothers (MOMS)
Project
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.
Mount Sinai Parenting Center
Project
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.
Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center
Project
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.
United Hospital Fund
Project
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.
2020 Grantees
All Our Kin
Project
A grant funded the expansion into New York City of this national nonprofit organization that trains, supports, and sustains family child care educators.
American Enterprise Institute
Project
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.
Bipartisan Policy Center
Project
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.
Connecticut Early Childhood Funder Collaborative
Project
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.
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.
Early Childhood Funders Collaborative
Project
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.
Home-Grown Child Care
Project
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 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.
Low Income Investment Fund
Project
This grant contributed to a Covid 19 emergency fund that provided financial assistance to New York City child care providers.
Mary's Center
Project
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.
Mental Health Outreach For Mothers (MOMS) and Mobile Mental Health Outreach Van
Project
The grant supported implementation of the MOMS Partnership in Bridgeport and for the Partnership’s data integration in New Haven.
United Hospital Fund
Project
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.
Walter Gilliam, Ph.D.
Yale Child Study Center
Project
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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