The Institute for Child Success is turning Sweet Sixteen!
“The ICS Innovation Fund will provide the capital that allows ICS to develop bold new solutions, to step in when there’s an urgent need, and to continue to serve as a mission-aligned bulwark for critical work.”
-Minor Shaw, Honorary Chair of the Sweet 16 Campaign
The ICS Innovation Fund: Help ICS Make a Difference for Children and Families
As the Institute for Child Success celebrates our truly “Sweet Sixteen” milestone, we invite you to join us. Just as this age marks a turning point in a young person’s life, our 16th anniversary is a time for renewed purpose and a bold vision for the future. With your support, we plan to solidify our future in early childhood advocacy.
This anniversary is a testament to our community’s unwavering support, and we are proud to collaborate with our community partners on their wide-ranging needs and to provide immediate, rapid response support when unexpected challenges arise. This innovative work truly sets ICS apart.
Our most significant wins have been sparked by agile, innovative projects – projects not funded by restricted program dollars, but by our annual donor giving campaign. And many have later evolved into programs, publications, and key policy changes that have shaped the early childhood landscape across the nation.
To continue this vital work and remain a flexible, nimble resource for children and families, we are asking for your support of the ICS Innovation Fund. This fund is our strategic investment in ICS’s future—it allows us to:
- Attract top talent and deepen our expertise
- Respond quickly when our communities need us most
- Build solutions to urgent problems
- Remain a mission-aligned haven for critical work
Your gift to the ICS Innovation Fund will ensure our mission continues moving forward with the agility and responsiveness needed to face both current and future challenges. This is about giving us the flexibility to do what we do best: see a problem, act quickly, and build a solution that gives children a strong start in life.
Gifts to the ICS Innovation Fund don’t just fund one initiative—they fund the strategy behind them all.
How does unrestricted funding help support ICS’s work? It allows us to:
- Increase our flexibility and efficacy in meeting immediate, unexpected needs
- Increase our resilience and ability to innovate in the face of change
- Increase our investment in staff training, financial systems and technology
- Increase our capacity for engaging completely in programmatic work
Please join us in making this a truly “sweet” celebration for the children we serve. Your partnership will help ensure that more children have the chance to experience hope and opportunity. To support ICS’s work on behalf of children and families across the nation, click the link below.
(Left to right) The Honorable Merl Code, Linda Brees, Ann Robinson, Tami McKnew, Dr. Susan Shi, and Dr. Desmond Kelly.
About the Institute for Child Success
Launched in 2010, the Institute for Child Success (ICS) is an independent research and applied policy organization. ICS works to create a culture that facilitates and fosters the success of all children. ICS supports policymakers, service providers, government agencies, funders, and business leaders focused on early childhood development, healthcare, and education, with the goal of improving the lives of young children prenatal to age eight and their families. ICS helps young children succeed by working with stakeholders to seek holistic solutions to complex early childhood challenges.
ICS proposes smart public policies grounded in research to improve outcomes for all children. We believe in the power of bold ideas to shape the dialogue about our children’s futures and build a more just society.
Our Vision
The success of all young children.
Our Mission
ICS advances human-focused and equity-centered policies, partners, and practices to transform systems that impact young children and their families. We achieve this by:
- Generating research insights on the best policies and practices to support young children and families.
- Offering program development and evaluation support to help early childhood programs maximize their impact.
- Providing smart financial solutions to organizations, governments, and communities.
- Creating systems-level change through resources and outreach to increase equitable and effective measurement practices among the early childhood workforce.