The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood provides grants to implement those imaginative proposals that exhibit the greatest chance of improving the lives of young children, on a national scale.
Donor Name: Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy) 09/30/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood is an incubator of promising research and development projects that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children, from infancy through 7 years, in the United States.
Welfare is broadly defined to support, acculturation, societal integration and childcare. Grants are only made if a successful project outcome will likely be of significant interest to other professionals, within the grantee’s field of endeavor, and would have a direct benefit and potential national application.
The Foundation’s goal is to provide seed money to implement those imaginative proposals that exhibit the greatest chance of improving the lives of young children, on a national scale. Because of the Foundation’s limited funding capability, it seeks to maximize a grant’s potential impact. 
Program Areas
The Foundation provides funding in the following areas

Parenting Education

To help parents create nurturing environments for their children, they support programs that teach parents about developmental psychology, cultural child rearing differences, pedagogy, issues of health, prenatal care and diet, as well as programs which provide both cognitive and emotional support to parents.
A young girl whispers something into the ear of a young boy. Both children are smiling. This image appeared in Creative Playthings catalog.

Early Childhood Welfare

Providing a safe and nurturing environment is essential as is imparting the skills of social living in a culturally diverse world. Therefore, the Foundation supports projects that seek to perfect child rearing practices and to identify models that can provide creative, caring environments in which all young children thrive.

A young boy stacks squares with different arrangements of holes onto matching pegs. This image appeared in Creative Playthings catalog.
Early Childhood Education and Play
They seek to improve the quality of both early childhood teaching and learning, through the development of innovative curricula and research based pedagogical standards, as well as the design of imaginative play materials and learning environments.

Requirements
Each Letter of Inquiry should include:

The organization’s official name, website address and contact information
A brief (250-word maximum) summary of the organization’s mission and recent program history
The organization’s 501(c)(3) Tax Exempt Status letter from the IRS and its’ Federal Tax ID#
The total amount of the organization’s annual budget
The total amount of the grant request
An indication of the amount and type of support being requested from all sources
Title of the project and a narrative description (1,000 words or less) of the issue(s) or need(s) to be addressed by the proposal, the work to be performed and the anticipated outcome
A description of how the proposal fits the Foundation’s program guidelines
A description of how your project and/or research is innovative in nature.

Ineligibility 
​The Foundation will not fund:

programs outside of the United States
the operation or expansion of existing programs
the purchase or renovation of capital equipment
the staging of single events (e.g. concerts, seminars, etc.)
the creation or acquisition of works of art or literature
the activities of single individuals or for-profit entities
political or religious organizations
programs with religious content
programs to benefit children residing in foreign countries
medical research applicable to both adults and children.

For more information visit CFEC.