Grantees

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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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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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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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

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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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