Our tales are options oriented.
Reasonably than focus our narrative change mission on extra of the downside—which analysis exhibits could make folks really feel disempowered and hopeless—our reporting grants search to search out and shine a highlight on state, native, and personal efforts to search out options. Analysis exhibits that studying about vibrant spots, nevertheless small, can create a way of company and hope. Our grants lean into incremental improvements and options that construct the power and can to gas public demand. They uplift examples that assist foster enterprise neighborhood assist and present policymakers the worth of investing public {dollars} in constructing the equitable, common little one care infrastructure this nation desperately wants.
Previous grant recipients embody a few of the high reporters protecting little one care and new entrants to the beat in an effort to bolster and amplify new voices. A lot of the grantees’ work focuses on uncovering how native governments, organizations, actions, and people try to enhance our damaged, patchwork little one care system to extend households’ entry to inexpensive, high quality care and enhance wages, advantages, and dealing circumstances for the care workforce. This contains nontraditional care techniques, household, neighborhood, and neighborhood efforts, enhancements in day-to-day actions, and native and state authorities modifications in funding, subsidies, and rules.
As a part of our mission, we’re continuously searching for new methods to deliver narrative change to a broader viewers and present federal, state, and native stakeholders—together with households, suppliers, policymakers, and companies—the worth of combating for brand new investments in care.