WCGMF-Discovery | Initiative Supports

The Memorial Fund is committed to supporting the Discovery Initiative through 2009 with grants to communities and statewide organizations, technical assistance and other supports. Capacity building is a key component of the initiative and includes one-on-one supports to the communities, as well as regional and statewide convenings on topics of interest to the communities. Support to the communities is also provided through the development of self-assessment and planning tools and access to this website and the Discovery listserv.

The capacity building approach supports communities in addressing the four [1] Discovery objectives as well as the core initiative principles of [2] collaboration, [3] parent leadership and engagement. The aim is to assist in the development of community capacities to:

Create and sustain a community-wide agenda to improve early school success
Collect, share and utilize data
Cultivate and engage parents
Organize and mobilize diverse constituencies for strategic purposes
Apply knowledge of child development to practice and policy decisions
Leverage resources
Manage and lead a community change process

Each community also has a Community Liaison who shares information from the Memorial Fund, connects the community collaborative members to resources and information and generally supports the work of the community.

This section includes:

[4] » Parent Voice in Policy

A special topics discussion held on April 13, 2010 at the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund

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[5] » Seminars and Meetings
[6] » Community Planning
[7] » 2010 Discovery Community Grant Options

Featured Resources


	[8] 2010 Discovery Capacity Building Calendar (68.37K Bytes)

	[9] 2010 Discovery Community Grant Application: Option 1 Option 1 is for communities that have completed a community plan and are using the plan for local decisions about how to improve early childhood outcomes. (409K Bytes)

	[10] Community Data Sets

	[11] Community Decision Making: Overview of the Learning Guides (474.47K Bytes)

	[12] Community Plan Format-- Aligning the Plan Elements with RBA (117K Bytes)

	[13] Community Plans

[1]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/about_objectives.html
[2]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/category_148.html
[3]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/category_146.html
[4]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/category_329.html
[5]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/category_7.html
[6]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/category_207.html
[7]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/category_327.html
[8]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/resources/sps_resource_1368.pdf
[9]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/resources/sps_resource_1359.doc
[10]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/category_303.html
[11]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/resources/sps_resource_1022.pdf
[12]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/resources/sps_resource_1093.doc
[13]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/category_316.html

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