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Families and Work Institute has received a very generous grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to extend the ages of the children we cover in Mind in the Making from the early years, now to include 5 through 8 year olds. In addition, this grant enables us to do more outreach when Mind in the Making is launched this year and next.
We have also received a wonderful grant from a family foundation to expand the number of parent videos we are producing.
We have made considerable progress in finding the right media “homes” for Mind in the Making (MITM), including a number of relationships with parts of the Disney Company. In collaboration with our partners, we are currently developing:
- A one-hour television show that traces the critical concepts of early learning from birth through the first school years
- Segments of the research to be used on network news shows
- A book with a major publisher on how children learn and on essential skills for thriving in the 21 st century
- 10 to 15 minute parenting videos that accompany each of the chapters of the book
- A 10-part series profiling some of the MITM researchers in Wondertime, with a projected launch date of May 2008
- Segments of the filmed research on Wondertime.com, DisneyFamily.com, and Families and Work Institute’s Mind in the Making Web sites
- Radio PSAs
- Small grants to states and to key national early childhood organizations to engage in activities that promote this work
- A press conference at the National Press Club, a congressional launch event and a satellite media tour
- Learning Modules for Early Childhood Teachers that we are updating now, that have been launched state by state since 2003 and will soon be in approximately one-quarter of the states and in Canada
- Materials for business leaders on the importance of these skills for workforce readiness and teachers on examples of how teachers are promoting these skills in their classrooms
- Many, many other possibilities still in discussion
Mind in the Making has been many years in the planning and development and has been funded thus far by the following foundations and corporations:
Lead MITM funders :
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
AT&T Family Care Development Fund
MetLife Foundation
Johnson & Johnson
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
A family foundation
The Heinz Endowments
Additional campaign funders:
The Procter & Gamble Company
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Citigroup Foundation
Arizona Community Foundation
Freddie Mac Foundation
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Learning Modules funders:
The Heinz Endowment
AT&T Family Care Development Fund
Lucent Technologies Foundation
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
A.L. Mailman Family Foundation
Pritzker Early Childhood Foundation
Vivendi Universal
The Prudential Foundation
American Business Collaboration
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