Awarded Grants

To strengthen the field of early childhood by strategically supporting technical assistance to leverage funding from federal sources and national or regional funders.

To provide parents and caregivers tools to boost early learning by developing a plan to launch Vroom statewide.

To advance public policies that make it easier for young children to thrive by conducting a policy analysis on several priorities identified in Spark NH's Framework for Action

To promote the adoption of shared goals and activities at the local, regional and state levels; and to raise awareness about the importance of early childhood by supporting five communities to develop concrete action plans for enhancing the development of all NH young children and their families

To strengthen the capacity of the early childhood advocacy infrastructure by monitoring legislation during the 2016 session and sharing information among policy advocates and stakeholders

To strengthen the early childhood field

To raise awareness about the importance of investing in early childhood by promoting and disseminating the NH Public Television program Raising New Hampshire.

To enhance capacity of the field to analyze and use cross-sector data to improve the early childhood system and advance policy.

To support the development of a comprehensive plan for the health and well-being of NH children and families by facilitating a working group to create goals and strategies, and providing the working group with research on current NH programs and services for children and families, as well as research on similar planning efforts used by other entities.

To spur influential Granite State leaders to take action to support sufficient investment in early childhood by holding a New Hampshire Leaders' Summit on Early Childhood in 2015.

To create better collaboration between New Hampshire's regional early childhood initiatives and Spark NH, the state’s early childhood advisory council, by creating a community of practice.

To increase educators’ knowledge and awareness of poverty barriers and proven strategies for addressing them by funding a keynote speaker for the 2015 NH Educators Summer Summit Early Childhood Strand.