The Ounce of Prevention 2012 Annual Report

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DYNAMIC PARTNERSHIPS: IMPACTFUL INNOVATION
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Dear Friends,
The academic achievement gap affecting low-income children—and many of
the social ills resulting from its existence—has been an enduring issue for our
nation’s education system and for families and communities living in poverty.
Complex problems require comprehensive, innovative solutions. And no matter
how much we may want one, we know there are no silver bullets to fix that
achievement gap or the problems linked to intergenerational poverty.
Since our founding 30 years ago, private and public support have allowed the
Ounce to perfect strategies of continuous quality improvement, the use of data
to inform practice and interdisciplinary efforts to develop achievable, scalable
solutions to care for and educate our youngest, most vulnerable citizens. These
are the vital, multifaceted solutions our country needs to ensure that millions of
children can take full advantage of the educational opportunities that will bring
them out of poverty.
Your support has also allowed us to lead the early childhood field with
innovative programs grounded in real-world experience and sound research.
Support and encouragement from like-minded champions across the country
has enabled the Ounce to move beyond established practice toward new
platforms, technologies and approaches that can help us solve the great
challenges of education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 President & Board Chair’s Letter
2 Our Mission
4 Innovation
6 Our Stories
22 Financial Statements
25 Donors
32 Offices, Partners and Sites
36 Board of Directors and Executive Staff
Just as with human development, all successful social innovation happens within
the context of relationships. On the next few pages we have profiled some of our
many partnerships with programs, researchers and policymakers across the nation.
We believe that one of the Ounce’s defining advantages is our capacity to partner
with others who have complementary expertise and perspectives to innovate
strategies and practices that will reform our nation’s public education system.
We take great pride in the partnerships and new ideas we cultivate to make sure
that every child has the opportunity to succeed in school and in life. We are
grateful for your continued support of this important work and hope that you
are as excited by the possibilities of these innovations as we are.
Sincerely,
Diana Mendley Rauner
President
Catherine M. Siegel
Board Chair
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The Ounce of Prevention Fund gives children in poverty
the best chance for success in school and in life by
advocating for and providing the highest quality care
and education from birth to age five.
The Ounce reaches thousands of infants, toddlers and
preschoolers through our programs, training, evaluation
and advocacy efforts each year.
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We SERVE nearly 4,000 children and families
through Early Head Start and Head Start
programs we fund and operate in Chicago, as
well as through our network of home visiting
and doula programs throughout Illinois.
We EDUCATE more than 3,000 program,
community and opinion leaders about key issues
in early childhood development.
We TEACH 150 low-income infants, toddlers,
preschoolers and their families at Educare, our
birth-to-five school in Chicago that has become
a national model for early childhood education.
Across the nation, we serve more than 2,600
children and families at the 17 operational Educare
Schools in the Educare Learning Network.
We PARTNER with advocacy organizations in 17
states and Washington, DC, to build their capacity
to advance policy change and increase public
investments in effective birth-to-five programs.
We TRAIN nearly 3,000 community-based early
childhood professionals throughout Illinois.
We also provide technical assistance and training
to more than 650 staff members working in 10
states where the Educare Learning Network has
operating schools.
We REACH an estimated 11,500 children and
families through a network of early childhood
providers who have been trained by the Ounce.
We ADVOCATE for sound public policies for
young children in Illinois through our Illinois
policy team and nationally through the First
Five Years Fund.
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Innovation has long been at
the heart of our organizational
heritage. The Ounce encourages
curiosity, champions
experimentation, values
knowledge and invests in models,
practices and strategies
proven to be successful and
sustainable. We serve as a
learning laboratory where we
apply research in real time.
During 2012 we accelerated our research and evaluation
efforts to catalyze change in early learning policy,
programs and teaching practices. To us, innovation
involves more than invention. It is remaining true to our
history of continuous improvement while seeking new
platforms, technologies and mechanisms to improve
learning. It is taking bold ideas and audacious plans and
wedding them to the structure and rigor necessary to
test, refine and perfect them.
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Perhaps most importantly, innovation is forging
creative partnerships with existing champions
and new converts to maximize the impact we can
have on children, families and the field.
This year, we advanced and strengthened
collaborations with long-time partners, including
the University of Chicago Charter School,
Educare parents, the Erikson Institute, WestEd,
the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, the BUILD
Initiative and the Educare Learning Network,
among others. And we built new relationships
with partners such as the Consortium on Chicago
School Research at the University of Chicago,
the Institute for Education Sciences, Clinton
Global Initiative America, the University of
Illinois at Chicago Department of Educational
Policy Studies, New York University,
Northwestern University and Loyola University.
Together we seek new ways to narrow the
achievement gap and prepare children for
kindergarten. We are driving forward to create not
one next new thing, but many. We know this is
the path from helping a limited number of families
to helping the nation educate all its children.
A few of the innovative projects that began or were
accelerated in the past year are highlighted
on the following pages. We also encourage you
to visit ounceannualreport2012.org to see
more examples of the Ounce’s innovation and
partnerships in action.
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Ongoing evaluations and research tell us that many
parents credit their experiences at Educare with boosting
their confidence in supporting their children’s learning.
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PARTNERING WITH
PARENTS, EXTENDING
IMPACT INTO K–12
Parents are a child’s first, best and most committed
teachers. This truth is the foundation of the Ounce’s
theory of change for improving the education and life
outcomes of young, at-risk children. Research links
strong home-school connections and parent engagement
to positive outcomes for young students. By partnering
with former Educare parents to create the Educare
Chicago Alumni Network, we are gathering new
evidence for how the Educare model can foster long-term
parental involvement in quality education and nurture
the enduring social networks that provide critical
support to families in need.
Through thoughtful, relationship-based
strategies, we seek to nurture and maximize
parents’ inherent strengths, support systems
and skills. The relationships we develop
with parents give us valuable insight into how
they remain resilient family leaders while facing
the unique stressors of raising young children
in economically depressed communities.
This information enables the Ounce to study
and deconstruct parents’ experiences to create
increasingly more effective and scalable models
for family engagement that help them continue
to be long-term assets to their children’s learning.
One of the most exciting and promising
new vehicles for improving family engagement
came straight from the heads and hearts
of parents themselves. In an exceptional
collaboration, the Ounce tapped directly into
the expertise of parents of Educare graduates,
partnering with them to create the Educare
Chicago Alumni Network.
The network will engage and empower parents,
families and communities to champion
education—from birth to college—as the best
pathway to academic, social and life success
for all children. It will provide an organized
forum for alumni families to maintain
connections with each other and Educare
Chicago after they have transitioned into
the K–12 education system. And it will broaden
the social network of support available to
families who share similar experiences of raising
children in low-income communities.
“This is an alumni network built for parents,
by parents,” said Portia Kennel, senior vice
president, program innovation, and executive
director, Educare Learning Network. “They have
internalized the importance of staying connected
to a larger community that believes in their
child’s capacity to excel. They have embraced
the role they can play in guiding their children’s
success, and they are mobilizing and seeking
out ways to make changes in their children’s
schools and communities. This is something in
which all of us should take extreme pride.”
The Educare Chicago Alumni Network and
our comprehensive work with parents
are among the field-leading contributions
the Ounce is making to the body of research
guiding programs that strive to engage all
families in meaningful education activities
and partnerships. Our work has implications
not just for early learning programs but also
for K–12 systems seeking models and
foundations for building effective, sustained
family engagement.
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From Maine to Phoenix, Seattle to Tulsa, Omaha to
Miami, and in Chicago, where the first Educare School
opened 12 years ago, the 17 schools in the national
Educare Learning Network are demonstrating that
intentional, research-based early childhood education
builds the skills, confidence and hope that help lowincome
children and families thrive academically.
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The Educare Learning Network is a confederation
of independently operated schools. The
public-private partnerships leading each school
implement the core Educare model, then
augment its components to address specific, local
needs. Our partnerships with the FPG Child
Development Institute and a national network
of local evaluation partners continue to provide
independent validation of Educare’s efficacy—
and insight into how to boost school readiness
for at-risk children from geographically and
culturally diverse communities.
Those partners are helping us document that
a full five-year intervention significantly improves
literacy outcomes for young dual-language and
English-language learners and that our intensive
approach to family engagement solidifies
parental involvement in a child’s education far
into elementary school.
Our first-ever suburban school is generating
new research data about educating the
growing number of young, poor children living
in our nation’s suburbs. Another Educare School
is confirming teaching and support strategies
that improve outcomes for young children living
in rural poverty. And a soon-to-open school
serving Native American children promises
to provide groundbreaking information on
narrowing the achievement gap in this longunderserved
population.
Educare Schools serve as platforms to drive
policy change, and the Educare Learning
Network is advancing a randomized control
study to provide data to inform state and
national early learning policy. Partners in the
Network came together this year to collectively
craft a shared strategic plan establishing a
roadmap for improving program quality, testing
new ideas, catalyzing research, linking with
the K–12 community and forming new
partnerships to increase the influence and
impact Educare Schools can have on promoting
elementary-school readiness and long-term
success of at-risk children across the nation.
“Educare has never been just about the children
and families served by each school,” said
Jessie Rasmussen, president of the Buffett
Early Childhood Fund, which partners with
the Ounce to replicate Educare Schools across
the nation. “Our strategic plan calls for us to
more intentionally extend our impact beyond
the walls of our schools to help all young
children grow up to be more successful in
school and life.”
DRIVING AN AGENDA
FOR CHANGE
Independent evaluations show that Educare students
transition into kindergarten with overall schoolreadiness
skills that are comparable with their middleincome
peers. Educare Schools demonstrate that the
model works, that it can be adapted to diverse settings,
and that a high-quality, five-year education starting at
birth is the best way to prevent the achievement gap from
ever forming. These data bolster efforts by the Ounce,
the Buffett Early Childhood Fund and partners in the
Educare Learning Network to advocate for the state and
federal policy changes that must be made to improve
program quality for the more than 4 million low-income
children served in early learning programs nationwide.
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It’s not enough to advocate successfully for new federal
funding streams and policies in support of quality
early childhood experiences. We must also ensure that
those new dollars reap promised results that can drive
future investments in a sustained funding stream.
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IMPROVING QUALITY FOR ALL
YOUNG CHILDREN
Capitalizing on a new federal funding opportunity through the Early Learning
Challenge, the First Five Years Fund partnered with the BUILD Initiative
to highlight the need for increased investment in quality early learning
programs. This partnership powerfully and irrefutably demonstrated that
quality services are needed throughout the country, that state lawmakers
on both sides of the political aisle are committed to creating those quality
services, and that states have realistic, measurable plans for how they can
use federal funding to improve school readiness for at-risk children.
*Original funding for FFYF came from the Buffett Early
Childhood Fund, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Irving
Harris Foundation, George Kaiser Family Foundation and
Pritzker Children’s Initiative.
**Additional funding for the collaborative was provided by
the Pritzker Children’s Initiative, Buffett Early Childhood Fund,
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, David and Lucile Packard
Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Robert R. McCormick
Foundation, Kresge Foundation, The Heinz Endowments,
William Penn Foundation, Rauch Foundation, George Gund
Foundation and the Early Childhood Funders’ Collaborative.
This year the First Five Years Fund (FFYF),
which was created by the Ounce in partnership
with five national philanthropies* in 2007,
helped to achieve one of the most significant
federal policy developments in recent memory:
the launch of the Early Learning Challenge
(ELC), a competitive grant for states to improve
the quality and effectiveness of their early
learning systems infrastructure. The ELC
provides $500 million in federal funding and
the opportunity to build the systems and
supports necessary to better meet existing need
for quality early learning programs—and to
ensure those programs are sustained.
With leadership and anchor support from the
Irving Harris Foundation,** FFYF formed an
innovative partnership with the BUILD Initiative,
a long-time ally with expertise in state systemsbuilding
approaches. The partnership was called
the Early Learning Challenge Collaborative, and its
goals were to cultivate interest among governors
in applying for ELC funding, strengthen states’
applications through ongoing support from
experts and track the progress and success of
winning states so that FFYF and its partners could
advocate on Capitol Hill for continued funding.
The collaborative convened state teams, early
learning experts and education reform leaders
for a two-day working session in September
2011. That October, 37 states submitted ELC
applications. Ultimately, nine states—California,
Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota,
North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island and
Washington—received Phase One grants, though
$2 billion worth of demand clearly outstripped
available grant funding. That demand made
a clear, compelling case for ongoing federal
investment in building early learning systems.
Leveraging existing and new partnerships, FFYF
ultimately achieved another dramatic victory:
securing an additional $133 million to
support early learning systems-building in five
other states in fall 2012—Colorado, New Mexico,
Oregon, Wisconsin and Illinois. Ounce staff
partnered with the state of Illinois to
apply for ELC funds. Illinois is now eligible
for a $35 million grant to implement new
school-readiness assessments, create a quality
rating system for birth-to-five programs
and build infrastructures to identify and link
high-needs children to services.
“This new partnership allowed us to capitalize
on what some have called a ‘once-in-threegenerations
opportunity,’” said Phyllis
Glink, executive director, the Irving Harris
Foundation. “We were able to provide states
and the field with valuable resources that
were made stronger because of the
collaborative. The lessons learned and the
states’ successes will provide a body of
evidence to make the case for continued
investments in quality early learning systems.”
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What’s it like to get “mathematized”
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Teachers, family-support staff and program
leaders at Educare spent a year getting
“mathematized” in order to help each other—and
the children and families they serve—see that
math is all around us, no matter where you live.
“For us, mathematizing is about helping
children see math in a way that is meaningful
and important to them,” said Mary Hynes-Berry,
faculty member, Erikson Institute Early Math
Collaborative. “It’s helping children learn to
love and get excited about math because it’s at
the very root of human problem-solving.”
Disparities in math proficiency are a troubling
and entrenched component of the academic
achievement gap afflicting low-income children.
Even at Educare—one of the most effective
program models for narrowing that gap—
early evidence from a study tracking Educare
graduates and families into K–12 schools
showed children were not as “math-ready”
as they needed to be.
The Early Math Initiative project started at the
Ounce with funding from the Louis R. Lurie
Foundation and the CME Group Foundation, and
it capitalizes on shared professional-development
goals and expertise found at the Erikson Institute,
a leading early childhood education graduate
program and long-time partner of the Ounce.
As part of the mathematizing experience,
teachers changed their attitudes about math
as they learned to experience math concepts
from a child’s perspective, refined lesson plans,
created activities to help children articulate
math concepts, tested new strategies for
teaching math and evaluated those approaches.
Having outside advisers act as sounding boards,
classroom observers and collaborators is at
the heart of Erikson’s math training for teachers.
Educare proved an ideal lab for Erikson’s
approach, as reflective coaching—or real-time
research and development—is embedded in the
program model through our master teachers.
“Keeping mathematics at the top of the
education policy agenda ensures that our
children are prepared for the demands of
a global, competitive market,” Howard Siegel,
chairman of the CME Group Foundation, said.
“Providing young children with high-quality
math instruction helps address long-term
inequities in education outcomes.”
A series of math events hosted by Educare
provided parents with practical guidance and
inexpensive activities to boost their children’s
learning—an idea that soon will be shared
with other early learning providers. Already,
the CME Group Foundation is underwriting
Educare’s development of a guidebook to
provide to other Head Start family-support
coordinators and staff so they can engage the
families they work with around math learning.
Educare and the Erikson Institute next plan
to collaborate to learn more about how infants
discover and experience math in the world
around them. That information will yield
teaching strategies that help parents and
teachers lay an even stronger foundation for
mathematizing a new generation of children,
starting at birth.
ADDING IT ALL UP:
IMPROVING MATH
INSTRUCTION
A child’s ability to master basic math skills can often
predict his chances for succeeding in school better than
his reading and social-emotional skills. Children are
born with natural math abilities, but the school and home
environments needed to fully nurture those skills often
are sorely lacking, particularly for low-income children.
US students’ math-proficiency ratings are plummeting
compared to those in other developed nations, but a
partnership between the Ounce and the Erikson Institute
is generating creative ideas for strengthening the math
knowledge and teaching skills of birth-to-five educators.
Those teachers can, in turn, spark enthusiasm about
numeracy starting with the very youngest children, so
that they start elementary school confident, eager and
ready to take on the challenges of math.
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Most students who graduated from college this
year were born at a time when the only internet service
readily available was dial-up. Compare that to the
students starting preschool this year.
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They were born at a time when people connect to
their cars, refrigerators and banks via computers
and even mobile phones. Young children today,
and even some of their parents, haven’t just grown
up around gadgets—their world has always been
tethered to technology.
For all their benefits, these technological
advances do not inherently “raise all boats,”
particularly for low-income families.
To address that gap, the Ounce recently joined
a consortium created through the Clinton
Global Initiative America (CGI America) to
develop digital tools to educate and empower
economically vulnerable families.
CGI America convenes communities of leaders
from the business, foundation, nonprofit and
government sectors to craft solutions to promote
economic recovery and competitiveness in the
United States. In addition to the Ounce, partners
in CGI America’s Catalyzing Early Learning
Innovation Through Digital Media project
include the Public Broadcasting Service, Sesame
Workshop, the Technology in Early Childhood
Center at the Erikson Institute, and the Fred
Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s
Media at St. Vincent College.
The project emerged this year when the Ounce
helped inform CGI America’s decision to
include an early learning focus at its annual forum
for the first time, work that was funded by the
Pritzker Children’s Initiative.
“Improving early childhood learning is the
single most important opportunity we have
to improve our economy, our country and our
future,” said J.B. Pritzker, managing partner,
The Pritzker Group.
CGI America invited the Ounce into the company
of a deep bench of talent in research, parent
engagement, education policy, technology and
new media, philanthropy and the entrepreneurial
sector. “The Ounce’s expertise in reaching at-risk
children and families informs and strengthens
the project’s ability to refine strategies to narrow
the academic achievement gap in this country
and abroad,” Pritzker said. “By building alliances
to address school-readiness issues facing at-risk
families, the organizations in this commitment
can leverage their unique resources to achieve
deeper impact.”
The ultimate goal is to spark the innovation
of effective digital media tools for parents and
teachers that build children’s school-readiness
skills. Instilling digital media literacy in children
is also a priority, with a focus on boosting vital
parent/child engagement through interactive
technology. “Our goal is to use technologies and
new media tools to create and disseminate
high-quality digital resources for at-risk children,”
said Anthony Raden, senior vice president,
research and policy initiatives at the Ounce. “This
partnership will push the early education field
to capitalize on the tremendous untapped
potential of digital media and help to level the
playing field for all young children.”
BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE,
ACCELERATING LEARNING
What happens when the achievement gap is compounded by the digital
divide Indications are that children fall even further behind, leaving them
shut out of a 21st century, global marketplace. A breakthrough partnership
between the Ounce and the Public Broadcasting Service, Sesame Workshop,
the Technology in Early Childhood Center at the Erikson Institute, and the
Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media at St. Vincent
College holds great promise for finding ways to overcome the digital
divide and for helping teachers, parents and children use developmentally
appropriate digital media tools to boost early learning and education
outcomes. This new partnership can help level the playing field so that all
children have what it takes to bring us into the next millennium.
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It’s all about establishing a seamless education
experience for children that starts at birth.
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BUILDING EFFECTIVE
EDUCATION SYSTEMS
Starting early to prevent the achievement gap is important, as is making
sure children sustain gains made in early learning programs as they move
through elementary school and toward college. Achieving both requires deep
collaboration between early childhood education and K–12 systems.
The Ounce and the University of Chicago Charter School are co-creating a
birth-to-college education model rooted in understanding and nurturing
the important transitions that children and families experience along
the education continuum. By aligning, detailing and examining how teaching,
family support, evaluations and parent engagement activities can work in
concert to help students and families, this partnership is adding data to
the national conversation about education reform and inspiring the field to
create true birth-to-college pathways for all students.
And this year, the Birth-to-College
Collaborative—a partnership between the
Ounce’s Educare Chicago School and two of the
University of Chicago Charter School (UCCS)
Campuses—continued to yield breakthrough
information and insight into how coordinating
early learning and K–12 experiences can
accelerate children’s learning, development
and achievement as well as facilitate parents’
engagement in advocacy for their children’s
education through college.
“High school and college graduation rates
are abysmal for low-income children,”
said David Hiller, president and CEO of the
Robert R. McCormick Foundation. “This project
will build an evidence base for the need to
invest in coordinated birth-to-college learning
continuums that can inform education
practice and policy.”
The partnership, funded by the Robert R.
McCormick Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
and Foundation for Child Development, created
a coordinated admissions policy process that
establishes a formal pathway from Educare
to UCCS’s Donoghue and North Kenwood/
Oakland (NKO) elementary campuses. This new
and challenging work required navigating
both charter school and Head Start/Early Head
Start admissions policies, providing a model
for other high-quality schools seeking to align
birth-to-college education experiences.
The collaborative accelerated its work to refine
preschool-to-elementary-school transition
activities and increase family involvement in its
school programs.
At the beginning of the school year, UCCS
kindergarten teachers and family-engagement
staff met with Educare preschool teachers
and family-support specialists for the firstever
round of transition meetings. The two
groups shared information about Educare
students and families who were newly enrolled
at UCCS. With access to student assessment
data, and documentation of student work,
UCCS teachers could better support Educare
graduates in making the sometimes difficult
adjustment to their kindergarten classroom
environment, routines and learning demands.
These efforts were particularly effective for
children with special needs, who were able to
receive appropriate special education services
in kindergarten more expediently.
Closer integration of family-support activities
also means that family-support staff from
Educare and UCCS attend engagement activities
at each other’s schools. And Educare, Donoghue
and NKO regularly open events and activities to
each other’s families to give parents and students
more opportunities to learn and grow together.
“This partnership is illuminating just how
complex the process of aligning birth-tocollege
learning experiences is,” said Diana
Rauner, president, Ounce of Prevention
Fund. “But the outcomes we’ve begun to see
are convincing all of us that it is critical that
we create more opportunities for alignment
between early learning and K–12 systems.”
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For an early childhood teacher, being present means a
lot more than just showing up.
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“It’s making a connection to the child, and being
excited about what is right before you in the
classroom,” said Sandy Young, an Ounce
teacher-trainer. “It’s about observing, reflecting
and responding to the child in the moment.
One teacher I’m working with said, ‘There’s a lot
to know about just being present.’ ”
next year’s training, program by program.
“We know positive relationships promote
learning,” said Rebecca Klein, director of
implementation for the professional development
project. “We want teachers to know why
relationships are important and to focus on
building those connections consistently.”
The Ounce’s Professional Development Initiative,
now under way at four Chicago programs,
aims to build high-quality early education in
community settings serving at-risk infants,
toddlers and preschoolers. The cutting-edge
project is connecting research and our knowledge
of child development to best-in-class approaches
to teaching impoverished young children.
This Ounce training model was selected for
a $3 million US Department of Education
Investing in Innovation (i3) grant, one of just
23 grant winners nationwide. Our model, which
is also being funded through the Stranahan
Foundation and Crown Family Philanthropies,
will provide more detailed insight into how to
keep the achievement gap from ever forming.
Ounce coaches meet with teachers to plan lessons
based on the training project curriculum and each
teacher’s agenda. When adaptations are needed,
they are tailored to meet curriculum goals and
carefully documented. Partners from the Urban
Education Leadership Program at the University
of Illinois at Chicago observe classrooms and
offer timely feedback. Each step in the process is
analyzed and recorded. The University of Illinois
research team, led by Drs. Steve Tozer and Sam
Whalen, collects data to evaluate effectiveness.
And classroom data gathered this year will shape
Teachers and leaders follow simultaneous loops
of training, coaching and reflection that enhance
learning and nurture an open mind. Enriching
the knowledge and skills of the early education
workforce is expected to pay off in higher schoolreadiness
rates. Eventually, the model could be
scaled to fit community programs nationwide.
“It’s important not to just show impact of
the professional development, but also to
document how and why it supported changes
in teachers and leaders,” Dr. Tozer said.
“That’s the ‘black box,’ and we need to know
what’s happening in the black box.”
“We’re asking teachers to think differently
and change teaching practices to most effectively
support children’s kindergarten readiness,”
said Debra Pacchiano, director of research
to practice for the i3 project. “And we’re
giving research to program leaders to help
them provide teachers with the organizational
supports essential to success.”
COACHING TEACHERS AND
LEADERS TO IMPROVE TEACHING
Four million low-income children ages birth to five enter a child-care setting
every day. But too few of their caregivers have the specific instruction,
subject-matter and child-development training needed to effectively teach
young children. The Ounce and partners at the Urban Education Leadership
Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago are creating and testing a
professional-development model for improving classroom instruction and
leadership using evidence-based strategies known to boost the school
readiness of children in poverty. Our research and evaluation efforts will
answer critical questions about what it takes to develop and support
effective early childhood teachers and demonstrate what is needed to bring
those strategies to scale in programs across the nation.
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The Educare Family Garden is giving the 150 infants,
toddlers and preschoolers at Educare Chicago a chance
to get their hands dirty as they learn—up close—that
seeds are “tiny, but mighty,” just like them.
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PARTNERING TO NOURISH
MINDS AND BODIES
As experts in promoting the holistic needs of young
children, the staff at high-quality early learning programs
can attest to the connection between strong nutrition
and education outcomes. To thrive, children need easy
access to affordable, fresh foods and the resources
that nurture their healthy development. The Ounce
is partnering with Growing Power to create a new
platform for early learning programs to demonstrate how
increasing access to fresh foods and improving health
can help further narrow the academic achievement
gap. We are showing that even an idea as simple as
planting a garden can change attitudes about eating
habits of at-risk children and stop the learning gap before
it takes root.
The Ounce and Growing Power, an organization
devoted to helping people grow, distribute
and eat good, healthy food from their own
communities, are working together to learn
more about how early learning programs
can be a platform for addressing food insecurity
and growing obesity rates in low-income
communities. Educare Chicago children and
families come from some of the city’s most
disadvantaged communities, where fresh,
affordable food options are scarce, and fast food
is far too prevalent. Nationally, childhood obesity
has more than tripled over the past 30 years.
Staff from Growing Power worked with teachers
and family-support staff to involve children
and families in planting the garden and teach
them about healthy eating habits. Children
initially planted tomatoes, beans, carrots, peppers,
herbs and other vegetables. The garden was later
expanded to include pumpkins, squash and
melons, and there are plans for fruit trees.
In addition to providing opportunities for young
children to get physically involved in math,
science and vocabulary-building activities, urban
farming helps children develop a connection
with the land while eating food they helped
grow. And, by having such a large, visible space
devoted to growing organic, healthy food,
the garden provides an opportunity to start
important conversations—with children, parents,
community leaders and policymakers—about
the roles that healthy food and resources
that support healthy lifestyles play in ensuring
the school success of at-risk children.
“Children are natural explorers and scientists,”
said Nick Wechsler, director, program
development at the Ounce. “The garden will
be a magical place for discovering nature and
getting a fresh treat off the vine.”
“It’s a different kind of play and learning from a
classroom setting,” said Erika Allen, Growing
Power’s Chicago and national projects director.
“This garden can activate a real desire in the
surrounding community for fresh produce.”
Perhaps most importantly, the garden and
partnership are creating a large appetite in the
smallest of children for healthy eating and living.
“Many schools use gardens as teaching tools,”
Wechsler said. “What makes Educare unique is
that we are one of the few schools where children
are supported in developing healthy minds
and healthy bodies, starting almost as soon as
they are born.”
Ounce of Prevention Fund: 2012 Annual Report

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES
PRELIMINARY AND UNAUDITED: YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2012
PRELIMINARY AND UNAUDITED: YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2012
22
ASSETS Ounce Bounce DC* FFYF** Total
REVENUE AND OTHER SUPPORT*** Unrestricted Temporarily
Restricted
Permanently
Restricted
Total
23
Current Assets
Cash and cash equivalents $6,782,675 $2,708,085 $329,108 $9,819,868
Board-designated cash equivalents 0 0 0 0
Subtotal 6,782,675 2,708,085 329,108 9,819,868
Illinois Department of Human Services $11,620,675 $0 $0 $11,620,675
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services 9,613 0 0 9,613
Illinois State Board of Education 2,267,151 0 0 2,267,151
US Department of Health and Human Services 14,092,724 0 0 14,092,724
Accounts receivable—governmental agencies and others 5,524,295 0 0 5,524,295
Pledges receivable, current 4,472,124 0 1,250,000 5,722,124
Deposits and prepaid expenses 219,226 348,020 0 567,246
Total Current Assets 16,998,320 3,056,105 1,579,108 21,633,533
Investments
Board-designated 20,334,988 0 0 20,334,988
Other 2,069,262 0 0 2,069,262
US Department of Education 284,679 0 0 284,679
US Department of Agriculture 111,842 0 0 111,842
Chicago Public Schools 1,739,562 0 0 1,739,562
Corporations, foundations, trusts 1,364,118 18,114,853 75,105 19,554,076
Individuals 535,263 25,000 157,475 717,738
Interest, investment income and other revenue 338,297 0 0 338,297
Donated services/in-kind 600,604 0 0 600,604
Total Revenue and Other Support $32,964,528 $18,139,853 $232,580 $51,336,961
Total Investments 22,404,250 0 0 22,404,250
Pledges Receivable, Net of Current Portion 2,118,607 0 992,753 3,111,360
EXPENSES
Property, Plant and Equipment, Net 6,985,317 13,219,380 43,093 20,247,790
Total Assets $48,506,494 $16,275,485 $2,614,954 $67,396,933
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
Liabilities
Accounts payable $6,695,966 $654,334 $238,483 $7,588,783
Deferred revenue 368,029 0 0 368,029
Subtotal 7,063,995 654,334 238,483 7,956,812
Other liabilities 739,776 0 0 739,776
Total Liabilities 7,803,771 654,334 238,483 8,696,588
Program Services
Child and Family Support Services $7,802,765 $0 $0 $7,802,765
Illinois Birth to Three Institute 1,953,722 0 0 1,953,722
Program services sites—pass through 16,255,689 0 0 16,255,689
Research 1,149,970 0 0 1,149,970
Illinois Policy Team 1,218,252 0 0 1,218,252
National Policy Consultation Team 1,638,513 0 0 1,638,513
Educare Learning Network 2,246,616 0 0 2,246,616
Educare Network LLC 545,082 0 0 545,082
Ounce National Training Institute 2,949,197 0 0 2,949,197
Special projects/program innovations 2,327,958 0 0 2,327,958
Subtotal 38,087,764 0 0 38,087,764
Net Assets
Undesignated unrestricted 9,222,285 13,219 ,380 43,093 22,484,758
Board-designated unrestricted 4,832,981 0 0 4,832,981
Bounce DC * 1,336,906 0 0 1,336,906
First Five Years Fund ** 2,841,386 0 0 2,841,386
Total Program Services 42,266,056 0 0 42,266,056
Subtotal 14,055,266 13,219,380 43,093 27,317,739
Supporting Services
Temporarily restricted 11,728,230 2,401,771 2,333,378 16,463,379
Permanently restricted 14,919,227 0 0 14,919,227
Total Net Assets 40,702,723 15,621,151 2,376,471 58,700,345
Total Liabilities and Net Assets $48,506,494 $16,275,485 $2,614,954 $67,396,933
General and administrative activities $5,125,432 0 0 $5,125,432
Fundraising and special events 1,199,095 0 0 1,199,095
Total Supporting Services 6,324,527 0 0 6,324,527
Total Expenses $48,590,583 $0 $0 $48,590,583
*Bounce DC, a 501c3 supporting organization of the Ounce of Prevention Fund, was established to support the development of Educare of Washington, DC. Bounce DC is entirely funded through
restricted private donations. **First Five Years Fund aims to focus resources and attention on the need for quality early learning care and education for children birth to five. First Five Years Fund is
entirely funded through restricted private donations. ***Includes restricted and multi-year pledges, including pledges to the Ounce Campaign for Early Learning, recognized in FY2011.
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JULY 1, 2011, THROUGH JUNE 30, 2012
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LEADERS $100,000 AND ABOVE
Anonymous
Bloomberg Philanthropies
The Buffett Early Childhood Fund+
CME Group Foundation+
Early Childhood Funders’ Collaborative/BUILD
Finnegan Family Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Grand Victoria Foundation
Harris Family Foundation+/
Katherine P. Harris
Caryn and King Harris
Toni and Dr. Ronald Paul
Pam and Dr. Joseph Szokol
Linda and Bill Friend
Stephanie and John Harris
The Irving Harris Foundation+
George Kaiser Family Foundation
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Oscar G. & Elsa S. Mayer Family Foundation
Robert R. McCormick Foundation+
Pritzker Children’s Initiative
Diana and Bruce Rauner+
W. Clement & Jessie V. Stone Foundation
Stranahan Foundation
Helen and Sam Zell+
BENEFACTORS $50,000–$99,999
Anonymous
Alvin H. Baum Family Fund
BMO Harris Bank+
A. Steven and Nancy C. Crown
Crown Family Philanthropies
Evanston Community Foundation
The Joyce Foundation
JPMorgan Chase Foundation
Polk Bros. Foundation
Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation
Linda and Mike Simon Family +
In memory of Howard and
Sylvia Baskind
MAJOR DONORS $25,000–$49,999
Allstate Insurance Company+
Anonymous+ (3)
Jacolyn and John Bucksbaum+
Crain’s Chicago Business+
D & R Fund
Michael Ferro, The Chicago Sun-Times+
Gustafson Family Charitable Foundation/
Patti and Allen Gustafson
Daniel P. Haerther Charitable Trust
Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation-
Midwest Division
In honor of J.B. Pritzker
Malott Family Foundation
Joe and Rika Mansueto
Prince Charitable Trusts
J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation+
Catherine M. Siegel+
SUSTAINING MEMBERS
$10,000–$24,999
Anonymous (2)
Susan and Steve Baird+
Battle Creek Community Foundation
Prue and Frank Beidler+
DeVry Inc.+
Don and Anne Edwards+
Goldman Sachs+
Rusty and Samuel Hellman+
David Herro and Jay Franke+
Hannah and Gary Hirschberg
Susan and Howard Jessen
Anne L. Kaplan
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Keiser Donor Advised
Fund at The Chicago Community Trust
Lefkofsky Family Foundation
Harriet and Ulrich Meyer+
David Nadler
In honor of Laura Nadler
National Academy for State Health Policy
OptionsHouse+
PNC Bank+
Regency Centers
In honor of Jacolyn and John Bucksbaum
Cari and Michael Sacks+
Diana and Michael Sands+
Dr. Scholl Foundation
Howard Siegel+
Julie and Brian Simmons+
Lois and Harrison Steans+
Irvin Stern Foundation
Anne and John Tuohy+
Yves Saint Laurent
SPONSORS $5,000–$9,999
Curt R. Bailey, Related Midwest+
Linda and Robert Barrows
The Bill Bass Foundation
In honor of Cari Sacks
Carol Lavin Bernick Family Foundation+
William Blair & Company+
The Bluhm Family Charitable Foundation
The Boeing Company+
Jane and David Casper+
Chicago Tribune+
CNA Foundation
Elizabeth and Michael Cole+
Marshall and Jamee Field Family Fund at
The Chicago Community Trust
Marilyn and Larry Fields+
Jill Garling and Tom Wilson+
Keith and Rodney Goldstein+
Cabray Haines
Justine Jentes and Daniel Kuruna+
JPMorgan Chase & Co.+
Timothy and Elizabeth Landon+
Elaine and Donald Levinson+
In honor of Bill Friend
MacLean-Fogg Company+
The Malkin Family+
Samuel J. Meisels, President, Erikson Institute+
Paul Metzger and Sarah Bradley+
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP, JoAnn
and Marshall Eisenberg+
Nicor Gas+
Sharon Oberlander
Tom and Cece Ricketts+
The Rothkopf Family Charitable Foundation+
Lydia and Pat Ryan, Ryan Enterprises Group+
Cathleen C. and Curtis W. Stoelting
Don and Pamela Neal Suter+
William and Kristen Woolfolk
Farny R. Wurlitzer Foundation
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+Includes a generous sponsorship gift for the 11th “It’s Good Business to Invest in Young Children” Annual Luncheon
∞Deceased
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PATRONS $2,500–$4,999
Elaine and Floyd Abramson+
Anonymous (2)
Arbor Investments+
Axiom Consulting Partners, LLC+
Bill and Donna Barrows+
Blum-Kovler Foundation
David Brooks
Marcy and Greg Carlin+
CBOE+
Mark and Shari Coe,
Coe Capital Management, LLC+
ComEd+
Patricia O. Cox+
DLA Piper+
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP+
Deborah and David Epstein+
Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation+
Alyce Fuller
Dale and David Ginsburg+
Including a gift in honor of Beanie, Valerie
and Michael Lewis, and a gift in memory
of Julie Nagle’s father
Rachel and Devin Gross+
James and Brenda Grusecki
In honor of Marilyn and Larry Fields
Mrs. Paul W. Guenzel
Skip and Meg Herman+
Greta Huizenga and Mark Giesen+
Illinois Action for Children+
Mary Ittelson+
The Morris A. Kaplan and Dolores Kohl Kaplan
Fund of the Mayer and Morris Kaplan
Family Foundation+
Peter and Linda Karmin Family Foundation
Priscilla and Steve Kersten+
Kloiber Foundation
Fifi and Ron Levin+
Susan and Stuart Lucas+
Including a gift in honor of Peter Polsky
Christopher and Amanda Miller
Elaine and Allan Muchin+
Martin H. Nesbitt+
Northern Trust+
Matthew Patinkin+
Peoples Gas+
Deborah and Stephen Quazzo+
Jean Schlemmer+
Brenda M. Shapiro+
Matthew I. Shapiro+
Cheryl and Craig Simon+
Joyce and Roy Skoog+
Robin Steans and Leonard Gail
In honor of Diana Rauner
Anne and Bruce Strohm+
Ken and Kathy Tallering+
Trish and Glen Tullman+
Charles and Anne von Weise+
Beth and Bruce White+
Sherwin and Sheri Zuckerman
Susan Zukrow+
ADVOCATES $1,000–$2,499
Billie Wright Adams, M.D.+
Anonymous (3)
Rosemary∞ and John Bannan
In memory of Denyse Bannan, M.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Belgrad
John and Vicki Bitner and Holly Bitner Duck
David Block Foundation
Jeffrey and Leah Bluestone
Ellen and Laurence Bronska
Kristi and Kevin Brown+
Liz Cicchelli and Robert Buono+
Mitchell Cobey and Janet Reali
The Collins-King Family Fund+
Including gifts in honor of Kelly King Dibble
and Deborah Epstein
Jane B. and John C. Colman
Eloise Cornelius+
George J. Cotsirilos∞
Pastor Thomas and Ruth Cross+
Dr. Deborah Daro and Coleman Tuggle
Denise and Scott Davis+
Kelly King Dibble+
Lynn Donaldson and Cameron Avery
Janet Duchossois
The David and Lisette Eisendrath Foundation
Beth and Michael Fascitelli+
First United Methodist
Church of Chicago Temple Fund
Jim and Karen Frank
Jennifer Friedes and Steve Florsheim
Regan and Philip Friedmann+
Willard G. Gilson and Diana G. Gilson
Jeannette and Jerry Goldstone
Shelley Gorson and Alan Salpeter+
Gorter Family Foundation
Grant Thornton LLP+
Sue and Melvin Gray
Bruce and Vicki Heyman+
Howard Isenberg
Fruman, Marian and Lisa Jacobson
Carol Jones and Tom Hynes+
Gerri and David Kahnweiler+
Dan and Suzanne Kanter+
Klaff Family Foundation+
Sherry and Alan Koppel+
Sandy and Thomas∞ Kully
Susan Levinson
Irving A. Lewis
In memory of Roberta Lewis
Rick and Susie Mayer+
Richard and Martha Melman Foundation
Ann Merritt
In honor of Susan Merritt Baird
Mesirow Financial+
Motorola Mobility Foundation+
Kim and David Mulligan+
Clare Muñana+
Linda and Dennis Myers
In honor of Diana Sands
Northwestern University School of Education
& Social Policy
Janis W. Notz
Susan S. Novy
In honor of Linda Simon
Ruth O’Brien and Stuart Rice+
Susan and Ted Oppenheimer+
Mona L. Penner
Including gifts in honor of Linda and
Cheryl Simon
Martin J. Perry and Barbara J. Williams
Michael and Tanya Polsky+
Alice Rapoport and Michael Sachs+
Honorable John and Mrs. Gwendolyn Rogers
Julie Roin and Saul Levmore
Margot and David Rosenbaum+
Kitty and David Rothschild+
In honor of Dick and Annie Rothkopf
Perry Sainati and Jeanne Rogers
Bettylu and Paul Saltzman+
Judy and Tom Scorza+
Barbara and Walter Scott
John and Ruth Sellers
Michael and Carolyn Sennett
Johnnie Smith, Instar+
Andrew G. Spiegel
In honor of Judith Musick
Tammy and Eric Steele+
John and Jill Svoboda+
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Tobey
Rick Tuttle+
Marilyn and David Vitale
Mr. and Mrs. William Wardrop
Bernice Weissbourd+
Terry and Janelle Weldin-Frisch
Robert and Maria Westropp
Sandy Worley and Marc Walfish
Carol and Edward Wroble+
Nancy Youman
In honor of Diana Rauner
FRIENDS $500–$999
Mr. and Mrs. William Adams IV+
In honor of Keith Goldstein
Anonymous (2)
Robert B. Ball
Robin Loewenberg Berger and Mark Tebbe+
Susan Berman
Including a gift in honor of Kate Siegel and
Barbara Speyer
Philip D. Block III Family Foundation
Norman and Virginia Bobins,
The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation+
Laura Breyer+
Carole R. Brite
Carroll Family Foundation
Sally Carton+
Cynthia and Benjamin Chereskin
The Children’s Place Association
Marilyn and Ray Cohen+
Brian Crowe and Walter Egbert
Leslie Davis and Gregory A. White+
In honor of Diana Rauner
Sandy and Roger Deromedi+
Christopher A. Deveny
Angela M. Duff
Claire Dunham
Lois and Steve Eisen+
Gail and Richard Elden
Carol Emig and Michael Durst
Sidney Epstein and Sondra Berman Epstein
Holly and Larry Erlich+
Sylvia Fergus
Moreen Fielden
Robert Flynn
Lula M. Ford+
Meredith Soren Freese and Chad Freese+
William J. Gibbons
Beth Gomberg-Hirsch and Austin Hirsch+
Jeff A. Gonyo+
Leonard Goodman+
Robert Heaton+
Brad Henderson,
The Boston Consulting Group+
Dana Hirt+
David and Monique Hoffman
Edgar D. and Deborah Jannotta+
The Jannotta-Pearsall Family Fund of the
Community Foundation of Jackson Hole
JMB Insurance Agency
27
+Includes a generous sponsorship gift for the 11th “It’s Good Business to Invest in Young Children” Annual Luncheon
∞Deceased
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Carol and Greg Josefowicz+
ASSOCIATES $1–$499
Christina Codo and Patrick Maloney
Susan and Arnold Ginsburg
Peggy and David Kubert
J. Clifford Moos
In honor of Thomas Cross, Sr.
Christina Achre
Aaron and Natalie Cohen
In honor of Dale and David Ginsburg
In honor of Diana Rauner
In honor of Harrison Steans
29
Connie and Dennis Keller+
Dr. Pamela Adelman
Lydia Cohen
Georgianna J. Gleason
Karen and Walter Kurek
Rachel Morrison
Bill and Heather Kelley
Harriet and Gil Adelstein
Wheeler Coleman
Ms. Sharon Glickman and Dr. Gary Weisman Andy and Ellyn Lansing
Gerry and Nancy Nadig
Alan and Sophia King+
Adler Family Foundation, a supporting
Clare and Matthew Colnon
Ethel and Bill Gofen
Kathleen LaPorte
Marlene Nelson
Mary and Donald Kirwan+
foundation of The Jewish Federation
Elaine Costakis
Lynn Goldsmith
Latino Policy Forum
Ann and Jerry Nerad
Nancy and Rik Kohn
of Cleveland
Kathleen and James Cowie
Margo Gottlieb
Victoria Lautman
Susan E. Newman
Tracie L. and Larry B. Kugler+
Diana Aixala
Bill and Cory Crock
Leslie Graham and Louis Kenter
Heather Leaver-Spear and Phillip Barengolts Jerry Newton and David A. Weinberg
Mark J. Ladd
Ellen O’Brien Albrecht
John W. and Theresa Curtis
Elisha and Nina Gray
Elliot and Anne Lefkovitz
Kristi Nuelle
Wende Fox Lawson and Jim Lawson+
Ron and Julie Allen
Scott Daum
Lyhn and Alex Green
Carole Levine
Erin H. and Todd J. Ohlms
Flora Lazar and Lee Greenhouse+
Am Yisrael Congregation
Will A. Davis
In memory of Sylvia Baskind
Mitchell and Julie Levine
Samantha and George Olenik
Frances and Elliot Lehman
Mary and Paul Anderson
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Dobrez
Joyce B. Greenblatt
Charles Ashby Lewis
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Oostenbrug
Marquette Associates+
Anonymous (15)
Douglas Doolittle
Bridget Grusecki
Libby Keehn Lewis
Robin and John Parsons
Milwaukee Valve Company
Including gifts in honor of Esther Alanna, Peter E. and Carole Doris
Lisa M. Grusecki
Valerie Lewis
J. Marshall and Nancy Peck
Peg Moreland+
Harriet Meyer, Dick Rothkopf, and Linda Sally and Randall Doubet-King
In honor of James and Brenda Grusecki Doris Lewy
Diane and Jerry Pekow
Laura and David Nadler
and Mike Simon, and a gift in memory of Forrest and Naomi Downing
Ellen Gualtieri
Nancy R. Liebman and David Futransky
Karen and Joel Pekow
In honor of Betsy Little and Paula Molligan Sylvia Baskind
Debbie and Russel Dushman
Chris Gustafson
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Lifton
Aurie A. Pennick
Judith Neisser+
Joseph and Melissa Appelt
Rick and Hele Effgen
Donald D. Hahn
Barry and Terri Lind
Robert Perelman and Mary Lee Barker
Penny Obenshain+
Kelly Artioli
Laurel B. Elzinga
Vinni M. Hall, Ph.D.
Henry and Elsie Loeb
Miriam I. Pickus
Geoffrey A. Oltmans
In honor of Jaden and Ariel Ginsburg
Barbara Engel and Jesse Hall
Nancy and Tom Hanson
Emily Lonigro
William Anthony Porter
Virginia Oviedo+
Dolores Barnett
Deborah Gordon Engle
Louis Harris
Cynthia Lyons
Clara Prouty
Georgy Ann and William Peluchiwski+
Erika Lautman Bartelstein
In honor of Holly Erlich
Lynn Harris
Jerlyn W. Maloy, Ed.D.
Elizabeth Purvis
Raul I. Raymundo+
Kevin Batkiewicz
Don and Beth Eugenio
Kathy Harrison
Shari Malyn and Family
Carole Pyle
Jill and Ron Rohde
Peter Bernstein
Elizabeth Fama and John Cochrane
Theresa and Michael Hawley
In honor of Diana Rauner
Alison P. Ranney
Hilary and Sam Sallerson+
Judith G. Bertacchi
Marquia Fields
Janet and Bob Helman
Stephanie and Jonathan Marks
Aisha Ray, Erikson Institute
Jim and Laura Schultz+
Helaine A. Billings
Fern and Sanford Finkel
Judith and Robert V. Herbert
Peggy Martay
Samuel Refetoff, M.D.
David and Jamie Schwartz+
Including a gift in honor of Lynn Schaff and Katherine Finnegan
Julie Conboy Hesse
Arthur Mead Martin
Elliot Regenstein
In honor of Bill and Linda Friend
Barry Tucker
First United Methodist Church of Evanston
Patty Hirt
Walter and Shirley Massey
Maureen Gainer Reilly
Susan and David Sherman+
Lexis Blitstein
Naomi and Arnold Fisher
Sarai Hoffman
Penny McClary and Shasta Wyatt
Eugene S. Reineke
Juliet Siegel
Don and Nancy Borzak
Gerri Fishman
Margaret C. Holt
Carol McErlean
Judith Rice
Merle and Howard Simon+
Mary and Carl Boyer
Edgar Flagg
The Homa Family
Amy McIntosh
Pearl H. Rieger
Robert Stillman and Janet Surkin
Catherine and Addison Braendel
Jim and Susan Florsheim
Melissa and Doug Horlick
Russel McMillan
The Rev. and Mrs. James Risk
In honor of Billie Wright Adams
Willard E. Bransky
The Frances Xavier Warde School
In memory of Sylvia Baskind
Sherrie Medina
Mrs. Susan Rooney
James P. Stirling+
In honor of Joyce Skoog
Jay and Phylis Frankel
Maria de Santaren Hubbard
Bonnie and Chuck Mervis
Carolyn Rosenberg and Steven B. Nasatir
Art and Rita Sussman+
Michelle Brewer
In memory of Ann Cobey
Ideaction Corps
Including gifts in honor of Richard Aaron, Harvey E. Rosenthal and Beverly A. Rosenthal
Doug and Patti Sutton
Brendan and Caroline Bulger
Tracie Frederick
Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation
Mari Franks and Ronda Franks
Olivia Bea Ross Foundation
Michael and Eileen Tarnoff+
Blakely and Harvey Bundy
Marilyn Freund
INCCRRA
Meredith Manni Meserow
Tim Rounds
Including a gift in honor of Nancy Spigal Mr. and Mrs. John Burbank
Ruth E. Frey
Candace Jae and Alexander Gail Shermansong Dr. Steven Meyers
Jesse H. Ruiz
Nigel and Deborah Telman+
Maureen Byron
Madelon and Roger Fross
In honor of Keith Goldstein
Bart A. Miller
Diana Havill Ryan
Through A Child’s Eyes
Robin and Mike Byster
Ron and Pam Futterman
Krissan Jennings
Bonnie and David Miller
Michael P. and Kathleen H. Ryan
Jennifer Alter Warden
In honor of Ginny Mozdren-Nettleson
Dale and Roger Gandall
Gwen Jessen and Steve Gilmore
In honor of Dale and David Ginsburg
Kathy Ryg
Honorable Bonnie M. Wheaton
Elizabeth and Douglas Cain
Including a gift in honor of Michael Simon,
In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Jessen Barbara and Larry Millman
Carol Sonnenschein Sadow
Nancy and Bill Whitney
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese
and a gift in memory of Sylvia Baskind
Nancy Juda
Including gifts in honor of Linda and Mike Jeffrey Sadur, River North Mortgage
Including a gift in honor of Joyce Skoog
of Chicago
Thomas and Brenda Geers
In honor of Kate Siegel
Simon, and a gift in memory of Sylvia Baskind In honor of clients and associates
Richard and Nadine Woldenberg+
Cellar Angels LLC
Mary Geoghegan
Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Kaye
Michelle and Drew Millman and Family
Andrea Sandler
Sara Chaffetz
Eric Gershenson, Collaboration for Early
Mona Khan, M.D.
In memory of Sylvia Baskind
Anita Sarafa and John Duncan
Judi Chapnick
Childhood Care & Education
Timothy J. Kirwan
Gary Missner
Raeanne Sarazen
Sue Christoph
Gaylord Gieseke
Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago Caroline Moellering
Marie and Peter Schauer
Mawiyah Coates
Donald Ginocchio
Laurie and Rich Kracum
Herbert R. and Paula Molner
Maggie and Eric Scheyer
Peggy A. Montes
Catherine and Paul Schultz
+Includes a generous sponsorship gift for the 11th “It’s Good Business to Invest in Young Children” Annual Luncheon
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Jeannie and Denny Scully
Neal L. and Rachel Seltzer
Tracey Shafroth
Daniel and Deborah Shannon
In honor of Anne Tuohy
Joan Sharp, Scholastic Inc.
Ilene Shaw
Pam Sheffield
Nancy Shier
In memory of Bob Cinoman
Susan A. Silver
Janice Silverstone
Adele and John Simmons
Arlene Simunek
Alisa and Howard Singer
Including a gift in honor of Marilyn Fields
Marcia Slomowitz
In honor of Elaine and Floyd Abramson
Jill Dailey Smith
Julie Smith
Louise K. Smith
Lisa Snow and Franco Turrinelli
Carollina Song
Elizabeth and Hugo Sonnenschein
Kim Stephens
Don and Isabel Stewart
Liz Stiffel
Bonnie and Jerry Stock
In honor of Linda and Mike Simon
Thelma Leola Sturgis
Jeanette Sublett and Langdon Neal
Connie and Howard Sulkin
In honor of Elaine Abramson and Susan Lucas
Daniel C. and Amy C. Tausk
Anne and Tony Toulouse
Fran Tuite
ULI Foundation
Dan Valliere
Linda Vander Weele
Mari Pat Varga
Robert and Lois Verb
Phil and Judy Walters
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Walther
Roberta L. Washlow
Ruth Watts
Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Weichselbaum
Lynne and David B. Weinberg
Penny and Ernie Weis
Abby Westapher
Elisa Westapher
Beth and Richard Wexner
Julia and Dan Wheeler
Katie Wilson
Bart Winters
Randall and Karen Winters
Iris Witkowsky
Ellen K. Wondra
WTTW/WFMT
Joan C. Young
In honor of Linda Simon
Gloria Zieve
IN-KIND DONORS
Wendy and Jim Abrams
Anne-Marie Akin
Jeffrey L. Arfsten
Axiom Consulting Partners
Don Biernacki
BigMarker
BMO Harris Bank
The Boeing Company
Boston Consulting Group
Melody Brooks
Kyra Cavanaugh
Chicago Children’s Museum
Chicago Public Library
Chicago Public Schools
Chicago Tribune
Philip R. Cohen + Associates, Architects
and Planners
Crain’s Chicago Business
Dynamic Solutions Group
Paul Egger
Michael Ferro, The Chicago Sun-Times
John Friedman, Ph.D.
Gainer Organizing, LLC
Michael Garner-Jones
Maya George
Elayne Glick
Matthew Gnabasik
Lisa Greenspon
Rachel Gross
Greta Huizenga
Pia Hunter
Illinois Institute of Technology
K&L Gates LLP
Yvonne Jeffries
Lend Lease
Brian Leslie
Ali Levy
Christine Li-Grining, Ph.D.
Linchpin Strategies, LLC
Carolyn Lovering
Jennifer McCaffrey
Beth Michaels
Microsoft
Maeve O’Shiel, L.C.S.W.
Parents in the Ounce of Prevention
Fund Programs
Amaniyea Payne
Isabel Navarrete Polsky, M.D.
Toni Porter
Related Midwest
Sheryl Seifer
Cheryl Simon
Wendy Smith
Melissa Wilhelm
PUBLIC PARTNERS
Chicago Public Schools
Illinois Department of Children and
Family Services
Illinois Department of Human Services
Illinois State Board of Education
US Department of Agriculture
US Department of Education
US Department of Health and Human Services
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+Includes a generous sponsorship gift for the 11th “It’s Good Business to Invest in Young Children” Annual Luncheon
∞Deceased
Ounce of Prevention Fund: 2012 Annual Report

OFFICES, PARTNERS AND SITES
1
32 29
CHILDREN’S PLACE ASSOCIATION
90
43
13 14 42
45 39 33
16 Munoz Marin-Lowell Early
22 Advocate Illinois Masonic
33
Childhood Center
Medical Center HFI, D
94
21
18
Learning Center
3320 West Evergreen Avenue
3040 North Wilton Avenue, 2nd Floor
IOWA
47 Chicago
16 15 12
22
1800 North Humboldt Boulevard
Chicago, Illinois 60651
Chicago, Illinois 60657
290
94
88
9
49 34
Chicago, Illinois 60647
(773) 782-8459
(773) 296-5943
Davenport
11 24
80
50
Chicago Navy
(773) 395-9193
26
23
Loop Pier
180
23
CHILDREN’S HOME + AID
Aunt Martha’s Youth Service Center
10
LAKE MICHIGAN
LAKE MICHIGAN
Rockford
8
90
8
Arthur E. Jones Early Childhood Care &
51
9 Home-Based Early Head Start
PTS-HFI, D
39
40
1
290
7
17
3059 West Augusta
Mitzi Freidheim Englewood Child and
57
Parents Too Soon/Healthy Families Illinois
55
Chicago, Illinois 60622
Family Center
74
36
440 Forest Boulevard
28
(773) 475-4232
1701 West 63rd Street
Park Forest, Illinois 60466
Peoria
Museum
Chicago, Illinois 60636
27
CHICAGO
Campus
(708) 679-8000
Bloomington
44
(773) 476-6998
ILLINOIS
Champaign 25
INDIANA
HEAD START DELEGATE AGENCIES
24
74
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese
30
55 20
18 Viva Child and Family Center
46
AUNT MARTHA’S YOUTH SERVICES
of Chicago/Jadonal E. Ford Center for
41
19
3 37
Home-Based Program
Parenting Programs PTS-PAT, D
72
Springfield
10 Park Forest Site
2516 West Division
41
Roseland/Altgeld Adolescent
23485 Western Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60622
Parenting Program
70
6
Park Forest, Illinois 60466
(773) 252-9100
55
90
11255 South Michigan Avenue
(708) 747-2780
2
38
Chicago, Illinois 60628
4 5
ONE HOPE UNITED
94
11 Riverdale Site
(773) 474-7228
57
St. Louis
19
14424 South Wentworth Avenue
Bridgeport Child Development Center I
32
25
Riverdale, Illinois 60827
3053 South Normal Avenue
Center for Children’s Services PTS-PAT, D
64 48
(708) 849-6019
Chicago, Illinois 60616
Good Beginnings—Teen Parenting
35
52
17
(312) 842-5566
702 North Logan Avenue
MISSOURI
Danville, Illinois 61832
CASA CENTRAL
20 Bridgeport Child Development Center II (217) 446-1300
57
90
12 ABC Home-Based Head Start
514 West 31st Street
KENTUCKY
1349 North California Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60616
26 Child Abuse Council HFI, D
N
31
Chicago, Illinois 60622
(312) 949-4015
Rock Island County Doula Program
41
(773) 645-2404
400 16th Street
21 Edgewater Early Learning Center
Rock Island, Illinois 61201
13 Adolescent Parenting Program
5244 North Lakewood Street
(309) 786-1466
Home-Based Head Start
OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND
OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND
Chicago, Illinois 60640
EARLY HEAD START PARTNERS
2222 North Kedzie Avenue
27
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES
HEAD START/EARLY HEAD START
(773) 907-0278
Children’s Home + Aid Society HFI, D
CENTERS FOR NEW HORIZONS
Chicago, Illinois 60647
The Children’s Foundation of Children’s
DIRECTLY OPERATED SITES
1 33 West Monroe Street, Suite 2400
6 Effie Ellis II Center
(773) 782-8819
Home + Aid
ILLINOIS BIRTH TO THREE
Chicago, Illinois 60603
4 Educare School
4301 South Cottage Grove Avenue
Healthy Start Doula Program
(312) 922-3863
5044 South Wabash Avenue
14 Casa Infantil
SUBCONTRACTING
Chicago, Illinois 60653
403 South State Street
Chicago, Illinois 60615
2222 North Kedzie Avenue
PARTNER PROGRAMS
(773) 548-9839
Bloomington, Illinois 61701
2 Hayes Center
(773) 924-2334
Chicago, Illinois 60647
PTS provides Parents Too Soon services
(309) 827-0374
4859 South Wabash Avenue
(773) 772-1170
PTS-HFI provides Parents Too Soon
5
Chicago, Illinois 60615
Doula Home Visiting
EARLY HEAD START & HEAD
28
services—Healthy Families Illinois
Children’s Home Association of Illinois
(773) 373-8670
Hayes Center
START PARTNERS
15 Community Service Center
PTS-PAT provides Parents Too Soon
PTS-HFI, D
4859 South Wabash Avenue
SGA YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
1343 North California Avenue
services—Parents as Teachers
Children’s Home Good Beginnings
3
2800 Montvale Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60615
Chicago, Illinois 60622
7
Springfield, Illinois 62704
(773) 373-8670
Early Head Start & Head Start
D provides Doula services
404 Northeast Madison Avenue
(773) 645-2300
Home-Based
HFI provides Healthy Families Illinois services
Peoria, Illinois 61603
(217) 522-5510
11 East Adams, Suite 1500
IMH provides Infant Mental Health services
(309) 687-7600
Chicago, Illinois 60603
(312) 447-4356
NFP provides Nurse Family
Partnership services
Ounce of Prevention Fund: 2012 Annual Report

OFFICES, PARTNERS AND SITES
THE EDUCARE LEARNING NETWORK
AS OF SEPTEMBER 2012
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29 Christopher House PTS-PAT, D, IMH
Teen and Adult Parenting and
Prenatal Services
2507 North Greenview Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60614
(773) 472-1083
30 Community Elements PTS-PAT
Healthy Young Families
1801 Fox Drive
Champaign, Illinois 61820
(217) 398-8080
31 Community Health and Emergency
Services Inc. PTS-HFI
New Start Healthy Families of Illinois
13245 Kessler Road
Cairo, Illinois 62914
(618) 734-4534
32 Comprehensive Behavioral Health Center
PTS-PAT
Parenting for Success
505 South Eighth Street
East St. Louis, Illinois 62201
(618) 482-7354
33 Easter Seals Children’s Development
Center PTS-HFI, D, IMH
Teen Family Support Program
650 North Main Street
Rockford, Illinois 61103
(815) 965-6745
34 Family Focus—Aurora PTS-HFI
Healthy Families Aurora/Parents Too Soon
550 Second Avenue
Aurora, Illinois 60505
(630) 844-2550
35 Family Focus—Englewood
PTS-HFI, D, IMH
Healthy Families Illinois
326 West 64th Street, Suite 305
Chicago, Illinois 60621
(773) 962-0366
36 Family Focus—Lawndale PTS-PAT
Family Focus Lawndale Teen Parent Services
3517 West Arthington Street
Chicago, Illinois 60624
(773) 722-5057
37 Family Service Center of Sangamon
County PTS-HFI
Young Parent Support Services
730 East Vine Street
Springfield, Illinois 62703
(217) 528-8406
38 Fayette County Health Department HFI, D
416 West Edwards Street
Vandalia, Illinois 62471
(618) 283-1044
39 La Voz Latina PTS-HFI, D
Familias Felices
412 Market Street
Rockford, Illinois 61107
(815) 965-5784
40 Marillac Social Center PTS-PAT, D, IMH
Project Hope
212 South Francisco Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60612
(773) 722-7440
41 Mercy Family Health Center PTS-NFP
Chicago Southside Nurse
Family Partnership
8541 South State Street, Suite 1A
Chicago, Illinois 60619
(773) 891-2500
42 New Moms Inc. PTS-PAT
New Moms
2825 West McLean Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60647
(773) 252-3253
43 One Hope United HFI, D
Healthy Family Illinois
2115 Ernie Krueger Circle
Waukegan, Illinois 60087
(847) 245-6820
44 Pilsen Wellness Center PTS-HFI, D
Unidos Formando Un Futuro
2319 South Damen Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60608
(773) 579-0832
45 Public Health Foundation of
Northwest Illinois HFI, D
Doula Program
10 West Linden Street
Freeport, Illinois 61032
(815) 235-8394
46 Sangamon County Department of
Public Health HFI
Healthy Families Illinois
2833 South Grand Avenue East
Springfield, Illinois 62703
(217) 535-3100
47 Teen Parent Connection HFI, D
739 Roosevelt Road
Building 8, Suite 100
Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137
(630) 790-8433
48 United Methodist Children’s Home
PTS, D, NFP
Best Beginnings
201 North 27th Street
Mt. Vernon, Illinois 62864
(618) 242-5600
49 Visiting Nurse Association of Fox Valley
HFI, D
400 North Highland Avenue
Aurora, Illinois 60506
(630) 978-2532
50 Will County Health Department HFI, D
501 Ella Avenue
Joliet, Illinois 60433
(815) 740-8987
51 YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago HFI, D
West Side Healthy Beginnings
10 South Kedzie Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60612
(773) 533-9011
52 YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago PTS-PAT
Young Parents Program
6600 South Cottage Grove Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637
(773) 496-5646
OPERATIONAL SCHOOLS
Chicago
Omaha at Kellom
Omaha at Indian Hill
Milwaukee
Tulsa at Kendall-Whittier
Tulsa at Hawthorne
Tulsa at MacArthur
Denver
Miami-Dade
Oklahoma City
* Under construction
2*
*
3
*
Seattle
Kansas City, KS
Central Maine (Waterville)
Arizona (Phoenix)
Washington, DC
West DuPage, IL
Atlanta
Lincoln, NE*
New Orleans*
Winnebago, NE*
SCHOOLS UNDER DEVELOPMENT
Silicon Valley (San Jose)
Los Angeles
New York City
As of September 2012
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Ounce of Prevention Fund: 2012 Annual Report

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Irving B. Harris
Founder
Catherine M. Siegel
Chair of the Board
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Billie Wright Adams, M.D.
Curt R. Bailey
Susan Baird
Francis Beidler, III
Jacolyn Bucksbaum
Susan Buffett
David Casper
Mawiyah Coates
Michael P. Cole
Eloise H. Cornelius
Deborah Daro, Ph.D.
Kelly King Dibble
Marilyn Fields
Marquia Fields
Lula M. Ford
Bill Friend
Keith Kiley Goldstein
Marcia “Rusty” Hellman
Alan King
Timothy J. Landon
Virginia F. Oviedo
Francessca Phillips
Isabel Navarrete Polsky, M.D.
Raul I. Raymundo
Dick Rothkopf
Cari B. Sacks
Diana Sands
Jean Schlemmer
J.M. “Jim” Schultz
Catherine M. Siegel
Joyce Skoog
Harrison I. Steans
Leah Taylor
Anne L. Tuohy
Helen Zell
Paul Metzger
Honorary Founding Director
Bernice Weissbourd
Honorary Founding Director
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EXECUTIVE STAFF
EXECUTIVE STAFF
Diana Mendley Rauner, Ph.D.
Sonya Anderson, Ed.D.
Vice President, National Affairs
Bela Moté, M.Ed.
Vice President, Educare Development
President
Sarah Bradley, M.B.A.
Chief Operating Officer
Claire Dunham, L.C.S.W.
Senior Vice President,
Programs and Training
Michael Bechtel
Chief Technology Officer
Karen Freel, Ph.D.
Vice President, Research and Evaluation
Hanke Gratteau, D.Litt.
Vice President, Public Affairs
Chaunda Roseborough-Smith, M.A.
Vice President, Communications
Nancy Shier
Vice President, Illinois Policy
Cynthia Stringfellow, M.S.
Vice President, Educare Learning Network
Portia Kennel, M.S.W.
Senior Vice President,
Program Innovation
Executive Director,
Educare Learning Network
Barbara N. Hoffman, M.P.A.
Vice President, Development
Ann Kirwan, M.A.
Vice President, Strategy and Partnerships
Janelle Weldin-Frisch, M.A.
Vice President, Training
FIRST FIVE YEARS FUND
Kris Perry
Anthony Raden, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President,
Research and Policy Initiatives
Elliot Regenstein, J.D.
Senior Vice President,
Advocacy and Policy
Ralph Leslie, M.B.A.
Chief Financial Officer
Amy Lusk, M.A.
Vice President, Resource and Capacity Building
Executive Director
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