Focus Area: Youth Development

Grant Amount: $10,000

Based in St. Paul, serves the east metro. Founded in 1906, Wilder helps children, families and older adults through direct service programs, research, leadership development and community building. It operates a 4-star Parent Aware certified childcare program that takes a whole-family approach to the families it serves. Wilder is part of the Promise Neighborhood, an educational partnership focused on the Frogtown, Rondo, and Summit-University neighborhoods that works to facilitate a long-term cradle-to-career initiative supporting a child’s life and family in meaningful, measurable ways.

Grant supports Thrive by Five, an initiative that aims to improve early childhood development and kindergarten readiness outcomes for children. It helps parents and caregivers through one-on-one coaching, home visits, navigating early childhood education options and resources, and building social capital through group connections with other parents and caregivers. Grant funds will support the child-centered activities that directly engage parents and caregivers and their children through the Parents as Teachers home visiting model.