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THIS GRANT’S FOCUS: Early Childhood, Early Education, Early Care, Workforce/Professional Development
Deadline: Jan. 21, 2025 (letters of intent) | Mar. 21, 2025 (full proposals)
“The Stranahan Foundation’s Early Childhood Education grantmaking program focuses on increasing access to high-quality early care and education for young children (birth to five), especially those from low-income families, by investing in developing and retaining a high-quality, thriving early educator workforce. The spring 2025 funding cycle will support nonprofit organizations and projects focused on advancing our Innovation and Proven Professional Development strategies. These strategies are outlined below:
- Innovation: This strategy focuses on developing, piloting, and refining new approaches to improve the knowledge, skills, or practices of aspiring and existing early childhood professionals. To be considered under this strategy, your project must have:
- A clearly defined logic model.
- Incorporated best practices in adult learning.
- An evaluation plan that (a) assesses the model’s impact on classroom environments, teacher practices, and, ideally, child learning and (b) advances our collective understanding of “what works, for whom, and under what conditions” by the end of the grant period.
- Plan to repeat or scale the innovative approach to other settings or geographies if proven successful.
- Proven Professional Development: This strategy focuses on expanding or modifying a clearly defined, proven professional development model to enable future expansion or implementation in a new childhood setting. To be considered as part of this strategy, your professional development model must have:
- A clearly defined logic model.
- Substantial third-party evidence of positive outcomes for early childhood professionals, classroom environments, and, ideally, child learning. The Foundation generally defines “substantial” as consistent with the definitions of What Works Clearinghouse or ESSA Tier 1 or 2 evidence.
- Clear evidence of repeated, successful implementation in multiple early childhood settings or various geographies.
This cycle has up to $1.5 million in funding available to support innovation and proven professional development proposals. Based on the highest needs surfaced through the Foundation’s recent engagement and discussions with ECE leaders and educators in our 2024 Provider cycle, we are exclusively interested in models and approaches designed to do one of the following:
- Build the capacity of early childhood leaders, coaches, or mentor teachers to deliver or support instructional coaching.
- Support early childhood professionals in building the skills necessary to support children’s social-emotional health and effectively address challenging behaviors.
- Grow the pipeline of high-quality, well-trained early childhood leaders and teachers.”
Funder: The Stranahan Foundation
Eligibility: “This call is open to local, state, and national U.S.-based nonprofit organizations, fiscally sponsored organizations, public school districts, and higher education institutions.”
Amount: Up to $500,000
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