Child CareWORKS
A coalition of parents, caregivers and children’s advocates that strives to achieve high-quality, affordable and accessible child care for every Minnesota family.
Children, Youth & Family Consortium
An organization that provides leadership for the University of Minnesota’s President’s Initiative on Children. Youth and Families, serving as a bridge to information and resources and connecting research, teaching, policy and community practice.
Children’s Defense Fund-Minnesota
An organization that works to ensure that all Minnesota children have health care coverage, compile statewide county-by-county data on the well-being of Minnesota’s children and families, improve tax policies and help frame state policy debates to consider the well-being of children in all public decision making.
First Children's Finance
An organization dedicated to helping family child care providers and earlt childhood education centers become better businesses.
Greater Twin Cities United Way and its program Success by 6
Funds programs, promotes quality and works to increase awareness about school readiness and standards for early childhood services.
Itasca Project
A group of corporate and community leaders looking at major forces and factors that will impact the future of the Twin Cities. The committee develops recommendations for private and public actions designed to tackle key problems and opportunities, including early childhood.
Minnesota Business for Early Learning
Emphasizes awareness around an array of early learning issues, identifies and promotes best practices in the workplace and impacts public policy.
Minnesota Children’s Platform Coalition
A collaborative effort of families, faith communities, nonprofit and community organizations, businesses, labor unions and higher education, partnering with Every Child Matters on behalf of children and youth in Minnesota.
Minnesota Early Childhood Caucus
Bipartisan caucus of Minnesota Legislators collaborating to support early childhood.
Minnesota Early Learning Foundation
Created in 2005 by a group of foundation, corporate and civic leaders to address school readiness and recommend cost-effective strategies to prepare children for success in kindergarten.
Minnesota Department of Education
A state agency whose mission is to improve education achievement by establishing clear standards, measuring performance, assisting educators, and increasing opportunities for lifelong learning.
Pre K Now
A project of the Pew Center on the States, a public education and advocacy campaign that advances high-quality, voluntary pre-kindergarten for all three and four year olds.
Ready 4K
A school readiness campaign working to bring comprehensive policy change on behalf of Minnesota’s children, their parents and caregivers.