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)
LENA: Building Brains through Early Talk
Ohio State University Extension
Ohio Department of Children & Youth, Early Care and Education