Hold a dollar. It’s worth a dollar, right? However, it can become so much more. Its value rises when leveraged to give children a dramatic head start in life. From birth to age 8, a child’s ability to learn and develop the critical thinking skills needed to be healthy and successful grows exponentially. An investment of $1 can return social and economic dividends that grow throughout a child’s lifetime.

What if we could level the playing field? What if children of all backgrounds could access early experiences that fuel healthy growth, development, and lifelong learning? What would our neighborhood, our communities, even our nation look like if we could give more children an early, healthy, and strong start in life?

Collectively, Battery Powered has a unique opportunity to strengthen and increase the visibility of the Bay Area’s cutting-edge work in early education. The Bay Area is a unique place where innovations and tools contribute to the most modern approaches for the whole child. As a community, we can support the incredible efforts happening in our own backyard, and follow the stories as their impact scales nationally and globally.

Our Focus

Children gain a strong start in life when they are learning in Healthy Environments, gain early Literacy Skills, and have different ways of understanding the world around them through Experiential Learning opportunities. The organizations Battery Powered invests in are making a difference in these areas while granting access, engaging caregivers and scaling to new communities. It sounds like a lofty ambition, but it’s an attainable one. In fact, experts and leading practitioners are doing it every day. As Battery Powered learns more about their work, we will make strategic investments and uplift impressive local organizations in these focus areas:

Healthy, happy, and ready to learn: Safe, supportive physical and emotional environments lay the foundation for healthy development in life’s earliest stages.

Learning to read and reading to learn: Early literacy proficiency is essential for success across a range of indicators, including graduation and career achievement.

Innovations unlock future potential: Alternative approaches that engage each child’s creativity and imagination help build social and emotional intelligence.

Our Approach

“[The Bay Area] is home to one of the most highly respected early education systems in the world,” according to The Innovative Teacher Project. Battery Powered’s extensive search for best-in-class solutions has revealed three proven ways to make a meaningful difference in a child’s life. Battery Powered’s goal is to find and fund projects that address all three of these vital areas:

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