NH State-Wide: Early Care and Education Systems-Building
Our statewide ECE priority has a long-term goal of ensuring all children from birth to age 5 in New Hampshire, with a focus on families with low-income and communities of color, have access to high-quality, affordable early care and education within an equitable system that:
- Continuously improves to meet families’ needs
- Creates the developmental foundation for long-term social, health, and academic success
- Contributes to closing racial and opportunity gaps over time.
Within this priority, we support collaboration with public and private partners to build statewide capacity in New Hampshire for leadership, advocacy, and effective public policies that support strong systems of early care and education.
Our grantmaking strategies
To achieve our long-term goal for early care and education in New Hampshire, we engaged these four grantmaking strategies:
Enhancing advocacy and grassroots organizing to build collaborative coalitions shaping equitable policies to increase access to and quality of ECE for the youngest Granite Staters.
Bolstering strong, coordinated local, regional, and state systems to equip ECE programs and providers across settings with the resources and tools required to promote children’s learning and development and support a well-prepared and compensated ECE workforce.
Advancing research and innovation to further explore how to build and scale equitable, high-quality ECE programs and systems.
Strengthening administrative leadership and capacity to shape effective, data-driven, cohesive, equitable ECE policies at national, local, regional, and/or state levels.
We do not accept unsolicited proposals for this priority.
Applications are by invitation only and invitees must meet eligibility parameters. We have three grant application cycles each year, and deadlines for each cycle are available on our online portal login page. We welcome the opportunity to speak with you in more detail about our ECE systems building work, please contact us at info@couchfoundation.org.
Our grants in action
NHFPI study finds lack of child care leads to significant financial losses for families, businesses and local governments
A new study from the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute found that in 2023, New Hampshire businesses were losing an estimated $36 to $56 million annually due to the [...]
The NH ECE Research Consortium publishes the first five of seven primers
The NH Early Care and Education Research Consortium is a partnership of researchers and research users whose goal is to conduct new research and collaborate [...]