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. The goal of the collaborative is to provide a nonpartisan, singular focus on young children's best interests, respected leadership, and deep experiences in health and education policy, all required to effectively address the current opportunities and threats in California's Birth-3 policy landscape.
The ultimate goal of this collaborative is to team with advocates for pre-school, K-12 education and others 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:
$25,000, October 2009
