Grants

The Celebrate Children Foundation has offered three funding opportunities to enhance the work of local agencies strengthening families. The current grants focus on strengthening Wisconsin families through books and concrete supports. The agencies awarded the one-time competitive grants will have initiatives around:

• Building brains and bonds with books: Research has shown that having books in the home can boost child literacy. In addition to increasing literacy, when caregivers read to children it boosts the caregiver-child connection, builds protective factors, and helps foster healthy child development.

• Concrete supports: Research has shown economic and concrete supports help families address basic needs and create safer environments for children to thrive. There is also emerging evidence that the effects of economic and concrete supports reduce the risk for child maltreatment.