The mission of the Alliance for Early Success is to advocate for policies that improve outcomes for children from birth through eight years old, with a particular focus on promoting racial equity and disrupting structural racism and historic barriers to success in communities of color.
The Alliance for Early Success provides two types of grants aimed at scaling early childhood impacts and outcomes. These include funding for state organizations working to expand early childhood policy advocacy, as well as for leading national organizations that support state-level advocacy. A key feature of these grants is their flexibility; they are state-led, allowing states to identify their own opportunities for advocacy. Furthermore, the state advocacy grants are core operating grants, meaning grantees have the liberty to allocate funds as needed to support their policy advocacy efforts for children from birth through eight years old.
Given that collaborative efforts are a cornerstone of the Alliance's success, we highly recommend that proposals specify the way in which partnerships across state and national experts will be established to achieve common objectives.