At the Institute for Child Success, we know and honor that many communities want to do more to improve outcomes for their youngest but lack the resources or strategies to always do so. We see Pay for Success (PFS) financing…
by Katherine Klem, Director Policy Innovation and Impact The Institute for Child Success (ICS) is proud to announce an exciting result of a feasibility study it coached in Tempe, Arizona: Tempe has decided to expand free high-quality preschool! With funds from…
If you were feeling down about national political divisions these days, you should have been at ICS’s #SmallTalks event in Greenville, S.C., the evening of Feb. 22. National early childhood experts and innovators joined ICS for a panel discussion on…
by Megan Carolan, Director for Policy Research Last month, ICS shared the news that we’ve received funds from the Nonprofit Finance Fund to continue working with partners in Spartanburg, South Carolina around improved outcomes for families and children through the…
The Institute for Child Success has received $200,653 from Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) as part of a federal effort powered by the Corporation for National and Community Service’s Social Innovation Fundto address entrenched social challenges. The funds will bring Spartanburg partners…
We’re excited to announce that ICS is again opening its competition for Pay for Success Technical Assistance focused on early childhood programs. ICS’s technical assistance will help states and local governments determine whether to pursue PFS financing to expand services…
It was a proud day for ICS when South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley announced the Nurse–Family Partnership Pay for Success Project back in February. ICS had been a key proponent of this project from its early days, conducting the feasibility…
ICS provides technical assistance and resources on utilizing Pay for Success financing for early childhood programs. Often, this work is focused on home-visiting services, high-quality preschool, or expanding evidence-based child welfare models. As ICS's Bryan Boroughs and AmericaForward's Nicole Truhe…
How can educators, health leaders and communities help more parents learn to work with their children to prepare them to be healthy, and for school and life? That was a key question on Day 2 of ICS’s fourth annual Early…
They gathered in an unlikely location, the former Middleton Place plantation in Charleston, S.C., in October for ICS’s Race, Justice and the Young Child leadership seminar: social workers, poets, childcare providers, child abuse prevention advocates, policymakers, and other leaders passionate…