Grantees

All Our Kin

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• Our general operating support grant helps this national nonprofit organization train, support, and sustain family child care educators.

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All Our Kin

All Our Kin

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• A grant funded the expansion into New York City of this national nonprofit organization that trains, supports, and sustains family child care educators.

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All Our Kin

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• A planning grant to design an in-depth evaluation of All Our Kin’s impact on family child care quality and stability, and child and family outcomes. All Our Kin is a national nonprofit organization that trains, supports, and sustains family child care educators.

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American Enterprise Institute

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• 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.

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Baby's First Years

Teachers College

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• 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.

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Bipartisan Policy Center

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• A two-year (2023 and 2024) general operating support grant to the Early Childhood Team at the Bipartisan Policy Center to support their work in child care research and policy.

  A second 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.

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Bipartisan Policy Center

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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.

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Bipartisan Policy Center

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• 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.

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Blueprint Labs

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• 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.

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Blueprint Labs

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• 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.

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Capita

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• Capita is an independent, nonpartisan think tank whose purpose is to build a future in which all children and families flourish. This grant supports Capita to conduct research and make policy recommendations concerning the potential role of stay-at-home parents in child care policy.

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Center on the Developing Child

Harvard University

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• A two-year (2023 and 2024) general operating support grant to the Center, which translates scientific research and serves as a non-partisan resource for policymakers, practitioners, and lay audiences.

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Child Care Aware of America

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• 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.

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Citizens' Committee for the Children of New York

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• Citizens’ Committee for the Children of New York advances well-being, equity, and justice for all of New York’s children through research, advocacy, and civic engagement. This grant supports a data project investigating how early care and education providers can best support early intervention and behavioral health supports.

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Connecticut Early Childhood Funder Collaborative

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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.

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Connecticut Early Childhood Funder Collaborative

Connecticut Early Childhood Funder Collaborative

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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. 

  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.  

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Council for a Strong America

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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.

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Early Childhood Funders Collaborative

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• 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. 

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Education Trust–New York

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• The Education Trust–New York works to attain educational justice through research, policy, and advocacy that results in all students achieving at high levels from early childhood through college completion. This grant supports the Raising New York Coalition in its effort to advance state policies that benefit families of infants and toddlers, with a focus on improving long-term outcomes for low-income households, children of color, and those in other underserved groups.

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Elevate Policy Lab

Yale School of Medicine

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• With this grant, Elevate Policy Lab will combine data across its seven sites to extract takeaways that will be used to refine the MOMS Partnership® model. The model is comprised of brief, accessible, and evidence-based interventions targeting mental health, and a set of strategies designed to engage populations of under-resourced women who are caregiving to children.

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Family Connects International

Duke University

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• 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.

   

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Family Connects International

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• A two-year (2023 and 2024) general operating grant to Family Connects International to offer in-home clinical care by nurses and referrals to local support for newborns and their family members. In addition, FCI engages with policymakers to support sustainability of local programming and collaborates with community-based resources and care systems.

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Harvard Center on the Developing Child

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• 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.” 

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HealthySteps

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• 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.

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HealthySteps

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• Our two-year grant (2023 and 2024) 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.

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Home Grown

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• 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.

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Home Grown

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• 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.

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Home Grown

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• 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 two-year grant (2023 and 2024) to fund Home Grown’s Pre-K Standards in Home-Based Childcare initiative that will provide technical assistance to city and state leaders to ensure the inclusion of home-based providers in publicly funded pre-K initiatives.

  A second two-year grant (2023 and 2024) supports Home Grown’s initiative to partner with state and local governments to create comprehensive networks as durable infrastructure for home-based child care providers.

  An additional 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.

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Home Grown

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• 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.

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Institute for Medicaid Innovation

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• 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.

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Institute for Medicaid Innovation

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• This grant supported the Institute for Medicaid Innovation’s Maternal Health Policy Equity Summit. The summit convened Medicaid stakeholders and leading maternal health and Medicaid policy experts to identify challenges, generate solutions, and chart a path forward to ensure Medicaid works effectively for families.

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LENA

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• LENA is a national nonprofit whose mission is to transform children’s futures through early talk technology and data-driven programs. This grant supports an evaluation of its teacher-led Grow model that uses artificial intelligence to provide real-time, electronic feedback to teachers. Teachers’ access to personalized LENA data may improve outcomes for young children.

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LENA

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• 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.  

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LENA

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• 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.

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Low Income Investment Fund

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• This grant contributed to a Covid 19 emergency fund that provided financial assistance to New York City child care providers.  

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Maine Association for the Education of Young Children

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• A grant to support MaineAEYC’s work with the Right from the Start Coalition which works to ensure that all Maine children have equal opportunity for healthy development by providing early care and education that is accessible and of high quality, from birth to eight, throughout the state.

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Maine Early Childhood Funders Group

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• 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. 

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Mary's Center

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• 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.    

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Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance

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• A grant to support the second phase of the Perinatal Mental Health Education and Screening Project, a multi-year multi-disciplinary collaborative effort to ensure that all pregnant and postpartum individuals are educated about and screened for perinatal mental health disorders and are connected to resources for recovery.

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Mental Health Outreach for Mothers (MOMS)

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• 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.  

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Mental Health Outreach for Mothers (MOMS) and Mobile Mental Health Outreach Van

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• The grant supported implementation of the MOMS Partnership in Bridgeport and for the Partnership’s data integration in New Haven.

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Mental Health Outreach for Mothers (MOMS) and Mobile Mental Health Outreach Van

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• The grant supported implementation of the MOMS Partnership in Bridgeport Hospital and Head Start and Early Head Start programs.

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Mental Health Outreach for Mothers (MOMS) and Mobile Mental Health Outreach Van

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• A grant supported MOMS services to promote father-engagement in early childhood, a mobile “Parenting Van” that delivered mental health services to families in New Haven, CT, and technical supports to align administrative data systems to assess impact of the MOMS program.

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Mount Sinai Parenting Center

Mount Sinai Parenting Center

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• 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.

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Mount Sinai Parenting Center

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• This three-year grant (2022 to 2024) 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.

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National Workforce Registry Alliance Inc.

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• This grant supports prototyping by the National Workforce Registry Alliance Inc. the first state early childhood professional registry data audits in Maine and Washington DC. Project outcomes will help increase data confidence and determine infrastructure capacity for future data collection and contribute to designing a first-of-its-kind workforce well-being report.

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Niskanen Center

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• 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.   

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Niskanen Center

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• A two-year (2023 and 2024) general operating support grant to Niskanen Center Social Policy Team to help educate policymakers, thought leaders, journalists, advocates, and others about how child tax credits, paid family, and unemployment insurance leave can improve child well-being, stabilize families, and maximize parental choice.

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NYU Grossman School of Medicine

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• 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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Phil Fisher, Ph.D.

Stanford University

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• This two-year grant (2022 and 2023) 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.  

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PlayReadVIP National Center

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

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• 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.

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Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health

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• 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.  

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Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center

Vanderbilt University

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• 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.

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Prenatal-to-3-Policy Impact Center

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• 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.  

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Prenatal-to-3-Policy Impact Center

Vanderbilt University

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• The two-year general operating support grant (2022 and 2023) 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.

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Reach Out and Read

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• Reach Out and Read gives young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into pediatric care and encouraging families to read aloud together. With this grant, Reach Out and Read will collaborate with its partners in Washington, DC, on developing a sustainable Medicaid funding model to ensure that Reach Out and Read can be scaled and sustained over time for all children in the District. This pilot will inform larger healthcare financing opportunities for Reach Out and Read across the country.

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Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity

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• 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.

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Stanford University Center on Early Childhood

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• 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.

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United Hospital Fund

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• 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. 

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Walter Gilliam, Ph.D.

Yale Child Study Center

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• 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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Yale School of Public Health

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• 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.

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Zero to Three

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• A two-year grant (2022 and 2023) 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.

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Zero To Three

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• 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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