Bright & Early DuPage Grant - Local Early Childhood Collaborations

Bright & Early DuPage Grant - Local Early Childhood Collaborations

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: DuPage Foundation
Amount: Up to US $50,000
Last Updated: June 02, 2025

Summary

The Bright & Early DuPage Grant supports local early childhood collaborations, ensuring children from birth to age five receive essential educational resources. Funded by the DuPage Foundation, this initiative encourages community partnerships and family engagement to enhance access to quality early childhood education. Each year, grants of up to $50,000 are awarded to strengthen local efforts in promoting child development and navigating available resources, ultimately preparing young children for success in school and beyond.

Overview

Bright & Early DuPage Grant Bright & Early DuPage (B&ED), an initiative of DuPage Foundation, is a unique program designed to leverage area resources to ensure that all DuPage children from birth to age five receive the comprehensive support critical in preparing them for success in kindergarten and beyond. Community by community, B&ED is engaging and uniting local organizations and individuals to build awareness for and facilitate access to early childhood education and support services for DuPage children and their families. Each year, the B&ED initiative provides grant funding to local community organizations to help establish, build and maintain early childhood collaboratives. B&ED also serves as a voice for early learning and child-friendly policies at all levels of government. Although there are many ways to support young children and their families, the Foundation is most interested in supporting the development of new early childhood collaborations or those already in existence which are focusing on building local capacity for early childhood resources in the community, and family outreach and engagement in order to connect families to those resources. This includes identifying needs/resources to develop and implement a plan which expands high-quality early childhood education capacity and provides family support/education. Local Early Childhood Collaborations (Maximum Request - $50,000) The following are required activities for existing collaborations that apply for funding: Operate effectively as a collaboration by engaging with community partners, school district(s) and early childhood education providers on a regular basis.Empower families/caregivers with increased child development knowledge, provide educational activities/opportunities to help families navigate the early childhood systems, and provide specific resources and educational events focused on families and children who have risk factors such as economic, language, disability or additional needs.Conduct outreach focused on increasing the number of young children within their region to receive developmental screenings and track the number of children referred for appropriate early intervention services.Promote quality early childhood education and work towards full enrollment of all available program seats, (center-based and home-based) in your community.

Eligibility

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