The Birth to Five Policy Alliance (the Alliance) is a pooled fund grant-making organization, The Alliance's stated mission is to promote state policies with the funding necessary to shift the odds in favor of young children at risk for poor health and developmental outcomes.
Founded in 2005, the Alliance became a non-profit 501c3 organization in 2008. Current investors in the pooled fund include: Buffett Early Childhood Fund, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Irving Harris Foundation, JB & MK Pritzker Foundation, George Kaiser Family Foundation and an anonymous donor. The Executive Director of the Birth to Five Policy Alliance is Lisa Klein.

Grantees

The Birth to Five Policy Alliance emphasizes collaborative efforts among their grantees. Current grantees are:

• Build Initiative
• Center for Law and Social Policy
• Committee for Economic Development
  Committee for Economic Development
  The Committee for Economic Development is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan think tank based in Washington, DC. Its membership consists of some 200 senior corporate executives and university leaders...
  
  
• Council of Chief State School Officers
  Council of Chief State School Officers
  The Council of Chief State School Officers is a non-partisan non-profit organization of public officials who head departments of elementary and secondary education in the U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Education Activity and five U.S. territories. CCSSO provides...
  
  
• Fight Crime: Invest in Kids
• National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
• National Association for the Education of Young Children
  National Association for the Education of Young Children
  The National Association for the Education of Young Children is the largest nonprofit association in the United States representing early childhood education teachers, paraeducators, center directors, trainers, college educators, families of young children, policy makers, and advocates...
  
  
• National Center for Children in Poverty
  National Center for Children in Poverty
  National Center for Children in Poverty is an American non-partisan research center that promotes the interests of children in low-income families. The center was established at Columbia University in 1989 and is a part of the Mailman School of Public Health...
  
  
• National Council of La Raza
  National Council of La Raza
  The National Council of La Raza is a non-profit and non-partisan advocacy group in the United States, focused on improving opportunities for Hispanics. It is sometimes confused with La Raza Unida...
  
  
• National Conference of State Legislatures
  National Conference of State Legislatures
  The National Conference of State Legislatures is a bipartisan non-governmental organization established in 1975 to serve the members and staff of state legislatures of the United States...
  
  
• National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
  National Governors Association
  The National Governors Association , founded in 1908 as the National Governors' Conference, is funded primarily by state dues, federal grants and contracts and private contributions. NGA represents the governors of the fifty U.S. states and five U.S. territories The National Governors Association...
  
  
• National Scientific Council on the Developing Child
• Ounce of Prevention Fund
• Urban Institute
  Urban Institute
  The Urban Institute is a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that carries out nonpartisan economic and social policy research, collects data, evaluates social programs, educates the public on key domestic issues, and provides advice and technical assistance to developing governments abroad...
  
  
• United Way of America
• Voices for America’s Children
• ZERO TO THREE
  Zero To Three
  Zero To Three is, according to its website, a national, multidisciplinary organization that supports the healthy development and well-being of infants, toddlers and their families...
  
  

Funders

The Alliance's pooled fund is supported by the following organizations:

• Buffett Early Childhood Fund
  Buffett Foundation
  The Buffett Foundation is a charitable organization formed by Omaha, Nebraska investor and industrialist Warren Buffett as a vehicle to manage his charitable giving...
  
  
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. It is "driven by the interests and passions of the Gates family"...
  
  
• George Kaiser Family Foundation
• Irving Harris Foundation
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation
• The Children's Initiative ( A project of the JB and MK Pritzker Family Foundation)
• An Anonymous donor

External links

• Official Site
• Buffett Early Childhood Fund
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation