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The Alliance for Early Success is a 50-state resource for early-childhood advocates as they pursue the big, sustained impact that will ensure every child in every state, birth through age eight, has an equal chance to grow, learn, and succeed.

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The Alliance Names Abriana Kimbrough as Its New Grants and Systems Manager

The Alliance for Early Success has named Abriana Kimbrough as its Grants and Systems Manager—a newly created position in the organization.

In the role, Kimbrough will strengthen the Alliance’s grantmaking practices and the infrastructure behind them. Her work will make the grant process easier to navigate so grantees can spend less time on administration and more time advancing their work for young children and families.

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BEE Collective Is Healing Communities and Building Power in South Carolina

As part of our celebration of this year’s Black Maternal Health Week (April 11-17), the Alliance is spotlighting a few of the maternal health organizations that you may not have heard about. The Beloved Early Education and Care Collective (BEE Collective) works in the southern part of South Carolina, outside of Charleston, and is focused on building on the assets of the pregnant people, children, and caregivers who are furthest from opportunity — work that creates the kind of deep community that heals itself and builds increasing power.

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State Advocates Learn Together in New Collaboration Community on Elevating Parent Voice in Advocacy

In partnership with the Alliance for Early Success, ZERO TO THREE has launched a collaboration community to support Alliance state grantees in elevating family voice and cultivating their leadership in advocacy and policy. A key focus of the community is exploring strategies to shift organizational culture and systems in ways that support meaningful partnership with families from the beginning of policy agenda development through the policy implementation process.

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New Alliance 50-State Report Shows Progress and Power Building at State Level in 2024 

Each year, the Alliance for Early Success surveys early childhood policy advocates representing all 50 states and the District of Columbia to create its annual 50-State Early Childhood Policy Progress and Landscape Report. The 2024 report, released in January, shows that support for state early childhood policies and funding continued to be strong, with policymakers from every region and political landscape acting to improve their early childhood policies.

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