People with higher levels of education are more likely to be healthy and live longer. Children from low-income families, children with disabilities, and those who experience discrimination are more likely to struggle with reading and math and less likely to graduate from high school or attend college. As a result, they are less likely to find steady employment and more likely to have health problems such as heart disease, diabetes, and depression. Interventions focused on children and adolescents’ education can improve performance in school and improve health and well-being.
The Challenges We Face
How We Work
Building Capacity
We invest strategically in capacity building funding and participate in efforts to build systems of care that ensure all children can have a healthy development and enter kindergarten developmentally on track.
Advocacy
The Foundation participates in Invest Early NC, a funders collaborative, which promotes and advocates for the development and sustainability of a comprehensive early childhood system that benefits all children, families, the workforce and communities in North Carolina.
Our Upstream Approach
Learn more about how we address the social, economic, and environmental conditions determining well-being.