Our vision is to better understand the needs of families, and increase awareness of the importance of early childhood development to ensure that all children will benefit from early education.

We support strengthening the capacity of early childhood teachers and the quality of child care centers, homes, and school-age programs.
There are 2,000 days between birth and kindergarten. The majority of brain development happens during this time, forming the foundation for all future learning.

We invest in the first 2,000 days of a child’s life by partnering with local organizations to provide programs that improve the quality of early childhood education; increase access to affordable, high quality early care; expand early literacy opportunities; and provide family support.

We are a Smart Start Partnership. Smart Start was created in 1993 as an innovative solution to a problem: Children were coming to school unprepared to learn. The power of Smart Start is that it delivers outcomes by giving communities local control to determine the best approach to achieving them.