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.
Oakland Forward
Michigan
Oakland Forward engages, equips, and empowers Black and Brown residents of Oakland County to collectively revitalize communities of color. We achieve this through advocacy, civic engagement, community organizing, leadership development, and coalition building.
Ohio Organizing Collaborative
Ohio
We believe that, no matter what zip code you live in, children deserve access to high-quality early education and that caregivers deserve wages that allow them to thrive. By building the leadership of Black women and women of color who are directly impacted by the care economy, we believe that they can build enough collective power to transform childcare in Ohio.
OLÉ
New Mexico
OLÉ is committed to centering the experiences of Black, Brown, Indigenous and People of Color; system-impacted folks, renters, early educators, parents, workers and immigrants. Since 2009, OLÉ has had an impact on policies that will shape New Mexico for generations.
Parent Voices Oakland
California
PVO advocates for affordable, accessible, quality child-care. PVO is building an inclusive and intersectional movement centering families and communities with the highest need to receive the equitable and high quality child care that we deserve.
Parents for Healthy Homes
Michigan
Parents for Healthy Homes is a grassroots organization dedicated to ending childhood lead poisoning and ensuring that all children grow up in safe, healthy homes. We use relationships, education, involvement and advocacy to shape policies that support children and families.
Parents Leading for Educational Equity
Rhode Island
PLEE is a parent-led, grassroots advocacy organization fighting to improve public education for students of color. We advocate for families who feel disenfranchised by their child’s education system and provide them with a safe space to meet, learn from each other, build momentum, and create change together.
Sacred Pipe Resource Center
North Dakota
The mission of the Sacred Pipe Resource Center is to engage the urban Tribal Native American population by providing safe spaces in which we can connect with cultural knowledge, find healing, build community, and affect positive change.
SPACEs in Action
Washington, DC
SIA is a grassroots, non-profit membership organization. SIA campaigns include increasing early childhood learning opportunities, access to health equity and racial/economic dignity for Black, Latinx, and Immigrant families in the metro Washington, DC region.
Springboard To Opportunities
Mississippi
Springboard To Opportunities works alongside residents of federally subsidized housing as they pursue their goals in school, work, and life. Through personalized navigation support, we connect residents to essential services, coaching support, opportunities to build social capital, and much more.
The BEE Collective
South Carolina
The BEE Collective is a Black- and women-led grassroots organization rooted in South Carolina, working at the intersection of birth justice, early childhood advocacy, and community healing. Our work centers the voices of caregivers, children, and birthworkers through a liberation-focused lens.