That is why we fund local, community- and parent-led efforts in neighborhoods across the country.These are our superheroes. The folks of every background, race, place, income level, family make up, and more who use their deep knowledge and skills everyday to ensure every child thrives. By investing in these community-based organizations, we can help stabilize and sustain their entire communities.
Our Grantees
The people closest to a problem create the best solutions.
9to5
Georgia
9to5 is a national non-partisan member-led organization working to achieve economic justice for working women and their families. We do this through grassroots organizing, people-centered policy change, and power-building with our members, communities, and co-conspirators.
All Nations Rise
Minnesota
All Nations Rise is a movement dedicated to strengthening tribal communities, both rural and urban, by advancing high-quality early childhood systems. By empowering parental engagement and supporting children through a cultural lens, we are driving positive childhood outcomes that make a tangible difference in the lives of Native American children and their families.
Black Child Development Institute
Florida
BCDI-Miami advances the quality of life for Black and Brown families in Florida. We strategically utilize our funding toward housing, public infrastructure, and grassroots policy development in historically underserved neighborhoods. Our mission is to cultivate safe, inclusive, and equitable environments where all children can reach their full potential.
ECE On The Move
New York
ECE on the Move advocates for an equitable child care system that centers the voices of early childhood educators in residential settings and the families they serve. Through community organizing, education, and policy engagement, we build collective power to transform child care into a system rooted in fairness, stability, and respect.
Faith in Minnesota
Minnesota
Faith in Minnesota is a grassroots, multiracial organization building people-powered democracy across the state. Through our childcare coalition, Kids Count on Us—made up of over 500 community-based childcare centers—we organize providers, teachers, and parents to transform Minnesota’s childcare system.
Family Forward Oregon & Family Forward Action
Oregon
We are building an intersectional movement centered on care to fight for economic and reproductive justice for all mamas and caregivers in Oregon. Together, we’re organizing and supporting mamas and other caregivers across a range of identities to take meaningful action to change our systems, so that the systems support caregivers and our families.
For Providers By Providers
Louisiana
4PXP is led by early childhood education providers, for providers. We are dedicated to uplifting and empowering child care leaders through peer mentorship, business acumen training, and professional and workforce development. Our work ensures that those who care for our youngest learners are supported, resourced, and heard.
I Be Black Girl
Nebraska
IBBG is a collective action organization rooted in a community-based lens that centers Black women, femmes, and girls. IBBG builds economic access and opportunity, uplifts an ecosystem of support for Black caretakers, and invests in community-led solutions that create lasting systems change.
Mothering Justice
Michigan
Mothering Justice works to ensure that Black and Brown mamas have the power, voice, and resources to shape the policies and systems that impact their lives. By centering mamas as leaders and experts, we advance policies that support families and create lasting systemic change.
Nollie Jenkins Family Center
Mississippi
Nollie Jenkins Family Center dismantles systems of oppression through youth-led organizing, healing justice, and community empowerment. We center the voices of youth and families to challenge corporal punishment, school pushout, and criminalization in education. We cultivate liberated spaces where our communities can heal, lead, and thrive.