Washington Early Learning Fund

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2013

Signed

May 12, 2014

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$14,585,068

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Home visiting services account (hvsa)in 2011, thrive & several stakeholders & community partners, worked together to develop a washington state home visiting plan that articulates high-level goals & prioritized objectives for infrastructure-building & implementation of a home visiting system. The home visiting services account (hvsa), established by the legislature, is overseen by the department of early learning, & administered by thrive. Thrive is responsible for raising private funds to match & release public dollars from the hvsa to expand ongoing availability of services, service delivery & access, & quality & accountability. Over the past year, thrive has made great progress in ensuring that washington's vulnerable families have access to high-quality, evidence-based home visiting services by awarding grants to a total of fourteen evidence-based home visiting programs across washington. 1. Serving families: in just three years, the hvsa has expanded from funding four grantees serving about 120 children, to 51 grantees with the capacity to serve over 2,000 children statewide, while decreasing the cost per child through economies of scale. The models & programs meet the needs of diverse populations.2. Developing the field: funds work to increase the state's capacity to not only serve more families, but also serve them with highest quality. 3. Centralizing support & empowering communities: the hvsa portfolio approach opens the door to diverse models & programs, so that communities can get what fits best. With hvsa funding comes technical assistance & training that supports improved home visiting implementation to meet outcomes.

Activity 3

Partnership & community partnerships a strong early learning system is built through strong partnerships at the local, regional, tribal and state levels. For the past several years, thrive has helped fund and support the state's 10 early learning regional coalitions with its community momentum granting strategy. The regions are key players with the implementation and ultimate success of the washington state early learning plan, and in implementing the racial equity theory of change (retoc). A strong regional infrastructure for implementing the elp will ensure that statewide and local organizations work together, tap into each other's wisdom, have the capacity to understand the changing demographics and needs of children and families, and set strategy to take action collectively so that all children have a greater opportunity to be successful in school and in life, particularly those furthest from opportunity.in addition to grants, thrive provides regular individual and group support to help the regions lead their community's early learning work. During the 2012-2013 fiscal year, thrive provided capacity building assistance to the 10 coalitions, enabling them to expand and diversify membership, influence state-level policy at the department of early learning and contribute to the development of a statewide racial equity theory of change.

Filer

EIN

20-4829769