The Greater Milwaukee Foundation is committed to improving early childhood education by focusing on healthy birth outcomes and by increasing the quality of and improving access to child care in the city of Milwaukee.
We believe every child in Milwaukee deserves access to the very best start in life and there’s no time to waste. Research shows that 80 percent of a child’s brain is developed by age 3, with developmental disparities forming before a child’s first birthday.
Only one in three Milwaukee children live in a community with equitable access to early childhood education. Black and Latinx children are disproportionally affected by this lack of access at their most vulnerable time of life.
Every child in the city of Milwaukee is prepared to enter school.
Learn more about the state of Milwaukee’s early childhood educator sector by reading A Seat at the Table.
Catch our conversation with national experts Rhian Evans Allvin, CEO, National Association for the Education of Young Children and Sherri Killins Stewart, Director of State Systems Alignment & Integration, Co-Director of State Services, BUILD Initiative about the state of the sector nationally and the steps we need to take together now to enact meaningful change.
Learn how our educational initiative, Milwaukee Succeeds, is focused on improving the early childhood educator sector.