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The Alliance for Justice Nonprofit Advocacy Project works to support the nonprofit sector by giving tax-exempt organizations a better understanding of the laws that govern their participation in the policy process.

The Aspen Institute sponsors the Roundtable on Community Change which has produced several publications on the topic of racial equity.

Born Learning is a public engagement campaign created by United Way of America and United Way Success By 6, the Ad Council, Civitas and Families and Work Institute to help parents, caregivers and communities create quality early learning opportunities for young children. The campaign is focused on fostering awareness about how young children learn, educating caregivers and providing a platform for public policy action.

Community Mediation, with support from the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund provides grants and technical assistance to communities wishing to hold a Community Conversation About Education. These local conversations are community-wide discussions that examine issues affecting children from preschool through high school (K-12). The goal of the conversations is to improve outcomes for children from birth through age eight by involving more citizens in defining and supporting community priorities.
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Connecticut Voices for Children has released fact sheets, reports and primers on a variety of topics related to early care and education.

A site created for community groups and individuals who want to know more about how to do an evaluation; who are working on changing their communities; and who want to be certain that their evaluations take in account issues of racism, power, privilege and oppression.

Experience Corps offers new adventures in service for Americans over 55. Members serve as tutors and mentors to children in schools. The Experience Corps website offers research on “Aging in America” and information on how to engage older Americans in school programs.

Provides a guide to begin, strengthen and sustain a collaborative group for the building and sustaining of positive change. Offers tools to help groups set clear goals, build and maintain coalitions and evaluate collaborative efforts.

The People Empowering People (PEP) program designed to build on strengths of adults and teens. People with limited financial resources, parents and single adults, teen parents, incarcerated men, women and teens and individuals with mental health and substance abuse issues participate and attend ten weekly training sessions followed training and support meetings. The ten training sessions include values clarification, communication skills, problem solving, the helping role, parenting, action planning, community assessment and community issues.

Pre-K Now is a public education and advocacy organization that advances high-quality, voluntary pre-kindergarten for all three and four year olds. Pre-K Now provides policy information and research specifically targeted for Pre-K advocates, policymakers, the media, business and community leaders, educators and families.

Ready, Set, Grow ... CT Kids! is a statewide, multi-year communications and mobilizing campaign with the goal of ensuring that all children born in Connecticut beginning in 2004 will enter kindergarten healthy, eager to learn, and ready for school success.
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Resources for parents in Southington including the public schools, the library, the Southington-Cheshire YMCA, NAEYC, Children's Trust Fund, Connecticut Parent Power and Ready Set Grow CT Kids.
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