Grants
The Celebrate Children Foundation has offered two funding opportunities to enhance the work of local agencies strengthening families. The current grants focus on strengthening Wisconsin families through books and concrete supports. The agencies awarded the one-time competitive grants will have initiatives around:
• Building brains and bonds with books: Research has shown that having books in the home can boost child literacy. In addition to increasing literacy, when caregivers read to children it boosts the caregiver-child connection, builds protective factors, and helps foster healthy child development.
• Concrete supports: Research has shown economic and concrete supports help families address basic needs and create safer environments for children to thrive. There is also emerging evidence that the effects of economic and concrete supports reduce the risk for child maltreatment.
2025 Awardees
• Bay View Community Center
• Childcaring
• Children’s Service Society of Wisconsin
• Family & Childcare Resources of NEW
• Indianhead Community Action Agency
• Lakeland Family Resource Center, Inc.
• Northwest Connection Family Resources
• Tree House Child and Family Center Inc.
• United Way of Sheboygan County
Strengthening Families with Books and Basic Needs
These small grants will support agencies efforts to strengthen families by providing books to build better bonds between parent and child thus increasing healthy early childhood experiences. And providing basic needs to create stable environments for families and connect families with other community resources. The grants and initiatives will also connect the participating families to Five for Families.
2024 awardees and results:
• Bay View Community Center
• Early Literacy Coalition of the Greater Chippewa Valley
• Family Resource Center of Iowa County, Inc.
• Northwest Connection Family Resource
• Children's Service Society of Wisconsin
• Indianhead Community Action Agency
