Focus Area: Advocacy in Early Childhood

Grant Amount: $10,000

Based in St. Paul, serves statewide. Think Small is a leading early education organization that supports families in accessing quality care and education, helps to build quality within the field, and improves the early learning system. It operates the Small Talk series, educating community and professionals about early childhood policy issues.

Grant supports the building of a new statewide coalition, conducting education campaigns, performing family voice surveys, and advocating for statewide change. Think Small will lead a new approach to early care and education regulation and quality assurance in Minnesota. The goal is to stop tinkering with the current system and start transforming it to take the burden from families and appropriately support early childhood educators in their quality care journeys. The coalition will include parents, educators, local and statewide early childhood coalitions and nonprofits, state agencies, and elected officials.