Early Childhood Development Impact Intentions

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?

Applications for AHR’s 2022 grants open on Wednesday, July 28, 2021 and close at 5:00 P.M. on Wednesday September 22, 2021

CLICK HERE TO APPLY.

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