NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC
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Mission Statement
To marshal North Carolina’s great people, ideas, and achievements to ensure equitable access to opportunity and success for every child by the end of third grade.
About This Cause
Our vision is that each North Carolina child has a strong foundation for life-long health, education, and well-being supported by a comprehensive, equitable birth-to-eight ecosystem. Change happens through coordinated action across communities. We help improve the health, education, and well-being of North Carolina’s children from birth-to-age-eight and their families by: Promoting understanding. • Effectively communicating the importance of early childhood investments • Centering racial equity in our work and communicating why it is critical to close the opportunity gap for children of color in their earliest years • Engaging business leaders and elected officials to champion early care and education • Lifting up community and family voices to guide decision making Spearheading collaboration. • Convening state and local health, education, family, business, and policy leaders, to build strong alignment across early childhood systems and actively foster discussion, dialogue, and collaboration • Encouraging accountability Advancing policies. • Providing policy analysis, resources and data • Inspiring innovation and action for change • Connecting and clarifying the complex landscape of policies, programs, research, and state agency agendas that impact children and families Our Principles We are boldly positive. The best way to make positive change happen is to believe it is possible and achievable, illuminate paths forward, and back it up with real results. We promote what works. We promote policies and programs grounded in research. We use data and research to pinpoint problems, identify promising solutions and engage in continuous quality improvement. We hold ourselves accountable for making measurable progress and aligning our work with other efforts to improve third grade outcomes. We support state and local solutions. Progress on third grade achievement takes sustained state and local effort and investment. We help identify and create leverage points and accelerate change. We are appreciative and inclusive leaders. We believe the best results are achieved when we tap into the potential and positive energy of diverse perspectives and cultures. We value and respect differing opinions and contributions, and actively seek to include them in our work. We are intentional and grateful partners. North Carolina has a wealth of great leaders and organizations working to improve outcomes for children. We seek to add value by prioritizing communication and creating opportunities for shared learning, problem solving, credit, and successes.