THE CALIFORNIA BIRTH-3 PARTNERSHIPThe Advancement Project
1541 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 508
Los Angeles, California 90017
Tel: (213) 989-1300
Molly Munger, Director
www.advancementproject.org/a>
Children Now
1212 Broadway, 5th Floor
Oakland, California 94612
Tel: (510) 763-2444
Ted Lempert, President
www.childrennow.org
Zero to Three
2000 M Street NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: (202) 638-1144
www.zerotothree.org
Matthew Melmed, Executive Director
The Advancement project's mission is to be an innovative civil rights and policy "action tank". Their work is based on the belief that sustainable progress toward social justice can be made when multiple tools - including community engagement, strategic communications, research, policy, analysis and law - are employed in a coordinated and integrated manner.
Children Now's mission is to find common ground among influential opinion leaders, interest groups and policymakers, who together can develop and drive socially innovative, "win-win" approaches to helping all children achieve their full potential.
Zero to Three's mission is to promote the health and development of infants and toddlers.
The Advancement Project, Children Now, and Zero to Three are all grantees of The Atlas Family Foundation.
In 2010 and 2011, the goal of the collaborative is twofold:
- to expand constituencies to impact state policy through educating and engaging legislators, business leaders, philanthropy, and K-12 stakeholders on the need for evidence-based programs and infrastructure necessary to support quality improvement strategies; and
- to build a strong advocacy voice for infants and toddlers by creating an infant-toddler policy agenda and by identifying and cultivating early childhood development experts as policy advocates.
The collaborative provides a nonpartisan, singular focus on young children's best interests and aims to present a unified approach on policy solutions thereby ensuring that all children in California, from pre-natal through high school have the opportunity to optimize their potential - socially, emotionally and cognitively.
Recent AFF grant:
$50,000 (of which $25,000 is a match), November 2010
