Alice Huffard Richards Fund Early Childhood Development Grants

We Fund:

• Efforts designed to develop young children’s “reading readiness” and early literacy skills
• Access to local, high quality early educational opportunities
• Professional development of the local, early childhood development workforce
• Early screening and intervention for preschoolers around problems that could limit educational success (speech, hearing, vision, development, autism and specific learning disabilities)
• Approaches that prepare parents to effectively support their child’s early learning, develop reading readiness skills and promote early literacy (parent coaching/mentoring, books in the home, etc.)

We Measure:

• Number of adult scholarship recipients that complete an early child education degree or certificate.
• Number of preschoolers/families that benefit from early screening/intervention.
• Number of families our grantees connect to early development opportunities (examples are: to quality childcare, early disability detection, coaching parents how to read with children).
• Number of children who are provided with books for their homes

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Interested in applying for an AHR Early Childhood Development Grant?

The 2021 AHR grant application is now open!

CLICK HERE TO APPLY.

The application deadline has been extended to November 6, 2020.

2020 AHR Grant Final Reports are due December 15, 2020.

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