Who funds Trying Together?

Early childhood advocacy campaign

To support trying together in providing high-quality support, resources, and professional development opportunities to early childhood educators across southwestern pennsylvania

Building awareness and education on importance of early childhood development

To improve organizational design, internal communications, and data visualization

To support professional development and public engagement efforts related to early learning

To provide matching funds to leverage a federal grant through the national fund for workforce solutions to improve job quality for the ece workforce

Infant toddler early intervention policy and research agenda

Addressing job quality in the childcare sector

General operating support

To provide maintenance for lytle land and the elizabeth street parklet

Early childhood education (cda) access

Human services

Early childhood advocacy campaign

For general operating support 2022-2024

Collaboration to support early childhood development

Toward two-year support of educator professional development focused on using evidence-based guided play practices in early elementary classrooms

To support professional development and public engagement efforts related to early learning

To support the on-going efforts to increase high-quality early childhood education on pittsburgh's northside in 2024 and 2025, and to support the regional child care job quality

Collaboration to support early childhood development

Infant toddler early intervention policy and research agenda

To support work with public school teachers and administrators to encourage a focus on explorative play in the classroom

General

To support 2023-24 little learning science bet activities

Human services

General support

Recruitment and retention of a high-quality early childhood education workforce

Toward two-year support to research, develop, and implement activities to support young children of families with low incomes with access to targeted interventions to ensure an improved developmental path

For general operating support 2022-2024

To provide operating support in 2020 -2023 to assist in filling two senior leadership positions within the organization and to contribute to the emergency child care fund to support the child care community during the covid-19 crisis

Early childhood advocacy campaign

To provide technical assistance, data, and capacity to a number of regional early childhood initiatives including the development of the allegheny county department of children's initiatives, hi5 and a county-wide early literacy initiative

To support professional development and public engagement efforts related to early learning

Collaboration to support early childhood development

To support the expansion of one northside early education workforce development efforts, as well as new family-focused early childhood navigation supports

To support work with public school teachers and administrators to encourage a focus on explorative play in the classroom

Collaboration to support early childhood development

Collaboration to support early childhood development

Education

Human services

General support

Early childhood advocacy

Recruitment and retention of a high-quality early childhood education workforce

Operating support

To provide operating support in 2020 -2023 to assist in filling two senior leadership positions within the organization and to contribute to the emergency child care fund to support the child care community during the covid-19 crisis

To support professional development and public engagement efforts related to early learning

Support for child care

For the continued development of the hazelwood play trail, ensuring that children have access to playful learning experiences and green spaces within their community

Early learning resource center transition and operations

Collaboration to support early childhood development

Collaboration to support early childhood development

Collaboration to support early childhood development

Human services

General support

Early childhood advocacy

Toward childcare professional development in homewood

Covid-19: child care system supports

To provide operating support in 2020 -2023 to assist in filling two senior leadership positions within the organization and to contribute to the emergency child care fund to support the child care community during the covid-19 crisis

To support professional development and public engagement efforts related to early learning

For the continued development of the hazelwood play trail, ensuring that children have access to playful learning experiences and green spaces within their community

Early learning resource center transition and operations

Establish an allegheny county to support early learning programs during the covid-19 pandemic to ensure continued viability.

Collaboration to support early childhood development

Support for child care

To support the advancement of holistic early childcare as a lead organization of the one northside education pillar

To support the creation of an early childhood league serving southwestern pennsylvania

To support the creation of an early childhood league serving southwestern pennsylvania

For continued support of buzzword pittsburgh, developing diverse opportunities for families to engage in vocabulary-building activities that foster positive early learning experiences for young children

To support a recess advocacy team to champion the importance of recess during the school day

To support a recess advocacy team to champion the importance of recess during the school day

Education

Matching gift program

General support

Toward education and development opportunities for homewood childcare providers

To support the one northside early childhood action team work towards training and raising the standard of care for children providers on the northside

Program/operating support

Program/operating support

To continue to support the one northside early childhood action team work towards providing the opportunity for every young child on the northside to thrive.