May 16, 2025
What an incredible year. With your support, the North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation advanced opportunities for children and families in every corner of our state.
Your partnership helped turn bold ideas into real impact, whether by boosting literacy, expanding access to child care, or advocating for family-friendly workplace policies.
- Over 57,000 North Carolinians now benefit from family-friendly workplace policies through Family Forward NC®.
- We launched three powerful data dashboards to spotlight literacy inequities by race, income, and geography.
- Our Science of Reading Fellowship brought together educators and literacy experts to create change at the classroom level.
- Greensboro was on track to become the first city in North Carolina to be Family Forward NC® Community Certified.
- We published 20+ briefs, toolkits, and reports to guide policies and programs statewide.
“No one program or single organization can create social change alone. That’s why NCECF exists—to connect, convene, and lead.” – Theresa Roedersheimer, Executive Director of the North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation
