Why Form Partnerships?
From the Oregon Library Association's Children's Services Division Grant Finding Tips:
In your efforts to improve early literacy awareness in your community, we hope that will consider joining with other organizations concerned with child welfare. Collaboration offers not only a better opportunity to receive funding, but also several other tangible benefits, including:
- Access to additional resources
- Opportunities to cooperate across institutional borders
- New perspectives and ideas
- Opportunities to innovate
- Access to new target populations
- Relationships for the future
- The competitive edge: grant makers want to fund collaboration
Community, Regional, State, and National Contacts
- County Agency Directory from Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS)
- Ohio Child Care Facility Search from ODJFS and the Ohio Department of Education
- Help Me Grow Community Resource Directories - a catalog of family support services in Ohio, searchable by zip code
- Help Me Grow Regional Partners
- Statewide Directory of Head Start Programs from Ohio Head Start Association
- Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association
- Action for Children (Franklin, Delaware, Fairfield, Licking, Madison, Pickaway, and Union Counties)
- Kent State University School of Information (iSchool)
- Reach Out and Read
- Raising a Reader
- LENA: Building Brains through Early Talk
- Ohio State University Extension
- Ohio Department of Children & Youth, Early Care and Education
- Ohio Department of Job and Family Services
- Ohio Department of Health