Strategic Investments

The Alliance for Early Success makes two types of investments: grants for state organizations working to scale early childhood impacts and outcomes, and funding for experts and consultants who support that state-level advocacy.

The Alliance’s grants are provided on a highly flexible basis in order to best support state birth-through-eight policy advocacy.

State Policy Advocacy Grants

The Alliance provides grants to state early childhood policy organizations as unconditional, general operating grants that grantees can spend however they choose. The Alliance does not prescribe programs or activities, because we know our grantees know what’s best for their state’s young children and their families.

Current State Grantees

Responsive Support Funding

The Alliance funds a network of researchers, consultants, experts, and strategists who are standing by to provide state early childhood policy advocates with responsive support. They are chosen in response to the needs we hear from state advocates, and they funded in proportion the responsiveness, customization, and timeliness of their support.

Current Responsive Support Providers

What We Do:

“Over the course of the past several years there have been a number of emergent issues and approaches, such as the family supports anchored by the pandemic's child tax credit expansion. Core operating funding affords the flexibility needed to leverage new strategies while responding to emergent issues.”

Dr. Tiffany Tyler-Garner
Executive Director
Children's Advocacy Alliance (NV)