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Thrive & Early Childhood Initiatives
The Northland Foundation’s Thrive Initiative and Early Childhood Initiative work to ensure a healthy life of learning, achieving, and succeeding for all young children, prenatal through early elementary.
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Supporting Our Region’s Youngest Children
The Northland Foundation established and continues to help sustain the Thrive Initiative and Early Childhood Initiative community coalitions. These two programs:
- Keep a pulse on needs and opportunities in relation to young children and families.
- Provide ready partners to collaborate on regional projects including Family, Friend, and Neighbor Child Care, Community Resource Hub, and Prenatal to Grade 3 programming.
- Help ensure our rural region has an active voice in statewide policy and program efforts focused on young children and families.