Education

Our Funding Focus

Increase access to quality early childhood education opportunities.

Grantees like Pulse use shared data to advance a comprehensive early childhood system, and help launch new centers like New Harvest Learning Center in Battle Creek neighborhoods where there weren’t any. Meanwhile, the Calhoun Intermediate School District is leaning in to an approach to shared services to strengthen child care centers’ business models and leadership.

Provide culturally relevant education opportunities.

The Burma Center and VOCES are creating and delivering culturally relevant education in diverse languages for communities of color.

We partnered with the State of Michigan, local child care providers and employers to create affordable child care options through the Tri-Share program, an approach that splits the cost of child care between employers, employees and public and private funding.