Robins Foundation Refines Early Childhood Strategy Based on Community Feedback
As a part of our ongoing commitment to learn and improve how we work alongside our community to address current and long standing needs, Robins Foundation completed a comprehensive, inclusive process to collect insights and feedback to further strengthen our early childhood investment strategy and approach to learning and evaluation.
This refinement is a progression of the work we began at the end of 2021, when we announced that we would be investing more deeply, and more narrowly, into early childhood care and education (ECCE).
We partnered with School Readiness Consulting (SRC), a nationally recognized group that helps organizations elevate their early learning efforts, to host focus groups and interviews with nearly 50 early childhood leaders representing grantees, funders, content experts, agency leaders, and other providers and partners, as well as staff and board members. Based on all the feedback and review of key documents related to the early childhood landscape, SRC identified important opportunities for us to enhance our philanthropic strategy for early childhood.
The result is an updated and refined investment strategy and learning plan called “Vision to Impact,” and you can learn more here.
We greatly appreciate SRC’s expertise and guidance, and we want to extend a heartfelt thank you to the many early childhood leaders, as well as our staff and board, who played such a critical role in the development of Vision to Impact. We look forward to implementing this refined strategy in collaboration with our partners and grantees.
In fact, many of you will be hearing from us in the near future as we provide opportunities to continue your involvement during the next phases of this collaborative process.
