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The Build Initiative was created by the Early Childhood Funders'
Collaborative (ECFC), a consortium of national and local foundations
that have substantial grantmaking programs in early childhood
care and education. The Collaborative provides networking, information
sharing and strategic grantmaking opportunities to its members.
The 16 ECFC members who have chosen to fund the Build Initiative
comprise the Funders' Advisory Council.
The foundations hope that private funds will stimulate public
investment for durable early learning systemic change. The
Council also provides broad strategic oversight of the initiative.
Foundations sponsoring the Build Initiative include:
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private charitable organization
dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged
children in the United States. It was established in 1948
by Jim Casey, one of the founders of United Parcel Service,
and his siblings, who named the foundation in honor of their
mother. The primary mission of the foundation is to foster
public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports
that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable
children and families. In pursuit of this goal, the foundation
makes grants that help states, cities, and neighborhoods fashion
more innovative, cost-effective responses to these needs.
http://www.aecf.org
The George Gund Foundation
The George Gund Foundation was established in 1952 by George
Gund, former chairman of the Cleveland Trust Company. The
foundation funds programs that enhance our understanding of
the physical and social environment in which we live and increase
our ability to cope with its changing requirements. The foundation
prioritizes support for disadvantaged populations and emphasizes
public policy advocacy as a grantmaking strategy. Grants are
made quarterly in the areas of education, human services,
economic and community development, environment, arts and
civic affairs.
http://www.gundfdn.org
http://www.gundfoundation.org
The Irving Harris Foundation
Founded in 1947 by Irving Harris, a successful businessman,
the Irving Harris Foundation is a private family foundation
that takes a strategic approach to funding programs, policies,
research and organizations that support and advocate for optimal
early childhood development, with an emphasis on the prenatal
period through the first three years of life. The foundation
also supports the arts and humanities and Jewish philanthropy.
The Harris Foundation funds primarily in the Chicago region
but does fund special training and early childhood initiatives
across the United States and in Israel.
The Heinz Endowments
The Heinz Endowments comprise two private foundations, the
Howard Heinz Endowment and the Vira I. Heinz Endowment. Their
shared mission is to help southwestern Pennsylvania thrive
as a whole community – economically, ecologically, educationally,
and culturally – while advancing the state of knowledge
and practice in the fields in which they work. Their Children,
Youth and Families program seeks to ensure that the region’s
young children and adolescents are given the educational preparation
and support they need to succeed in school and in life.
http://www.heinz.org
The Joyce Foundation
Based in Chicago, the Joyce Foundation supports efforts to
strengthen public policies in ways that improve the quality
of life in the Great Lakes region. Education grantmaking works
to ensure that all Midwest children receive an education that
prepares them for lives as thoughtful and productive citizens,
regardless of race, gender, or economic circumstances. An
important part of that effort is to improve early education
opportunities. Other grant programs are in Environment, Employment,
Money and Politics, Gun Violence Prevention, and Culture.
http://www.joycefdn.org
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private foundation
established by the late Ewing Kauffman, founder of the pharmaceutical
firm Marion Laboratories (now Aventis Pharmaceuticals) and
original owner of the Kansas City Royals Baseball Club. The
foundation looks beyond need to identify and develop pivotal
opportunities for improving the education of children and
helping create successful business in Kansas City and nationwide.
http://www.emkf.org
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Since 1930, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has worked to improve
the lives of youth through education and healthy development.
Using a holistic and child-centered approach, the foundation's
Youth and Education Programs address the continuum from preschool
through college, or from birth through age 24. The overall
programmatic goal is to increase the learning of youth, especially
those most vulnerable to poor achievement. The strategies
are: 1) to mobilize communities to change systems and policies
that affect learning; and 2) to foster partnerships between
communities and educational institutions to promote achievement
and workforce development.
http://www.wkkf.org
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation was established
in 1950 as a private foundation independent of the Knight
brothers newspaper enterprises. Knight Foundation promotes
excellence in journalism worldwide and invests in the vitality
of 26 U.S. communities by funding projects that address the
well-being of children and families, education, community
development, economic development, civic engagement and the
vitality of cultural life. Knight's national grant making
program, the National Venture Fund, supports innovative leadership,
organizations and ideas addressing Knight's fields of funding
interest and seeks to deepen the foundations impact by providing
models, leveraging resources and influencing decisions that
create systemic change at the community level and across the
nation.
http://www.knightfdn.org
The Lucent Technologies Foundation
The Lucent Technologies Foundation is the charitable arm of
Lucent Technologies. Its primary philanthropic focus is to
help young people around the world meet the challenges of
our changing global society. Efforts are directed toward education
reform, youth development, innovative work at the college
and university level, and programs that enhance opportunities
in science and engineering for under-represented minorities.
In addition, the foundation supports a diverse set of local
projects in communities around the world where Lucent employees
live and work.
http://www.lucent.com/news/foundation
The A.L. Mailman Family Foundation
The A.L. Mailman Family Foundation's mission is to enhance
the ability of families and communities to nurture their children.
As a small family foundation with a national grantmaking focus,
it believes that the most effective way to fulfill its mission
is by focusing on early childhood. Its primary program goal
is to assure quality early care and education experiences
for all young children. During the past 20 years, the foundation's
work has shifted from support for innovative projects and
model programs, to experimentation with replication strategies,
to an emphasis on policy,research and systemic approaches.
http://www.mailman.org
The Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation
The McCormick Tribune Foundation was originally established
as a charitable trust upon the death, in 1955, of Colonel
Robert R. McCormick, the longtime editor and publisher of
the Chicago Tribune. The foundation currently supports grantmaking
in four areas: promoting local philanthropy through its communities
program; working to improve early childhood education in the
Chicago area; supporting journalism and a free press in the
Americas; and encouraging active citizenship and volunteerism.
http://www.rrmtf.org
The McKnight Foundation
The McKnight Foundation was founded in 1953 and endowed by
William L. McKnight and Maude L. McKnight. Mr. McKnight was
one of the early leaders of the 3M Company, although the foundation
is independent of 3M. The foundation fulfills a dual role
as a responsive grantmaker that supports grassroots action,
and a strategic grantmaker that encourages larger systems
and policy reform.
http://www.mcknight.org
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a private family
foundation created in 1964 by David Packard, co-founder of
the Hewlett-Packard Company, and Lucile Salter Packard. The
Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the
following broad program areas: conservation, population, and
science; children, families, and communities; the arts; and
organizational effectiveness and philanthropy. The foundation
makes grants at the national and international level, and
also has a special focus on the Northern California counties
of San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey, and the
community where David Packard was born, Pueblo, Colorado.
http://www.packard.org
The William Penn Foundation
Otto and Phoebe Haas created their family’s foundation
in 1945 in response to social problems following World War
II. The William Penn Foundation strives to improve the quality
of life in the Greater Philadelphia region through efforts
that foster rich cultural expression, strengthen children’s
futures and deepen connections to nature and community. The
Foundation's Children, Youth & Families program seeks
to promote the full development of children and youth to become
capable adults and productive citizens, with a special emphasis
on key transitions in their lives. The Foundation's grantmaking
objectives include a focus on building a comprehensive system
of effective early care and education services.
http://www.williampennfoundation.org
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) is dedicated to promoting
the well-being of all people in the transition to global interdependence.
On July 1, 1999 the Charles E. Culpepper Foundation merged
with RBF. One of the goals of the foundation's Education Program
is to promote universal, quality education and care for pre-kindergarten
children with a comprehensive approach to their development,
including concerns for health, safety and readiness to learn.
Strategies include supporting the development of public policies
that promote universal access to early childhood programs
and advancing the professional development of early educators.
http://www.rbf.org
The Caroline and Sigmund Schott Foundation
The Schott Foundation's mission is to develop and strengthen
the movement for equity in education and child care. The foundation
focuses on universal, high quality early care and education,
public school excellence in underserved communities, and gender
healthy public schools. The Schott Foundation works in partnerships
with parents, educators, advocates, policymakers, community,
labor and business leaders, funders, and other friends of
children to make high quality education a reality for every
child, beginning at birth.
http://www.schottfoundation.org
The Schumann Fund for New Jersey
The Schumann Fund for New Jersey was founded in 1988 by Florence
Schumann and her children to carry on the philanthropic tradition
of Florence and John Schumann. The fund makes policy grants
throughout New Jersey, and program grants in Essex County.
Its funding priorities are early childhood development, environmental
protection, and school innovation.
http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker/schumann
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