Alliance for Early Success
Motto | "The Alliance for Early Success is a catalyst for putting vulnerable young children on a path to success" |
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Formation | 2005 |
Type | Grantmaking Organisation |
Headquarters | Leawood,KS, United States |
President | Jessie Rasmussen |
Revenue (2014) | $5,227,869[1] |
Expenses (2014) | $7,583,635[1] |
Website | www.earlysuccess.org |
The Alliance for Early Success (the Alliance) is a pooled fund grant-making organization, The Alliance's stated mission is to promote state policies with the funding necessary to shift the odds in favor of young children at risk for poor health and developmental outcomes. Founded in 2005, the Alliance became a non-profit 501c3 organization in 2008. Current investors in the pooled fund include: Buffett Early Childhood Fund, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Irving Harris Foundation, JB & MK Pritzker Foundation, George Kaiser Family Foundation and an anonymous donor. The Executive Director of the Birth to Five Policy Alliance is Lisa Klein.
Grantees
The Birth to Five Policy Alliance emphasizes collaborative efforts among their grantees. Current grantees are:
- Build Initiative
- Center for Law and Social Policy
- Committee for Economic Development
- Council of Chief State School Officers
- Fight Crime: Invest in Kids
- National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
- National Association for the Education of Young Children
- National Center for Children in Poverty
- National Council of La Raza
- National Conference of State Legislatures
- National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
- National Scientific Council on the Developing Child
- Ounce of Prevention Fund
- Urban Institute
- United Way of America
- Voices for America’s Children
- Zero to Three[2]
Funders
The Alliance's pooled fund is supported by the following organizations:
- Buffett Early Childhood Fund
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- George Kaiser Family Foundation
- Irving Harris Foundation
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- The Children's Initiative ( A project of the JB and MK Pritzker Family Foundation)
- An Anonymous donor[3]
References
- 1 2 "Alliance for Early Success" (PDF). Foundation Center. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
- ↑ http://birthtofivepolicy.org/index.php/about/
- ↑ http://www.buffettearlychildhoodfund.org/alliance.html
External links
- Official Site
- Buffett Early Childhood Fund
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation