Focus Area
Early Childhood (0-3)
Early investments open up a lifetime of potential and opportunity
Healthy development for children ages 0-3 provides the building blocks for strong communities, lifelong health, and educational and career success. This period represents a time of incredible growth and potential for young children and families. Early relationships with caregivers can promote healthy development and encourage early literacy for infants and toddlers.
In addition, early experiences, positive and negative, impact the developing brain and make it vital that we address issues societal and racial disparities, support the whole family, and treat caregivers and early educators as equal partners in widespread social change.
“In the first few years of life, more than 1 million new neural connections are formed every second”
– Harvard Center on the Developing Child
Clients in Early Childhood
These are just a few of our grantees. For more information on who we fund, visit our Annual Reports page.