THRIVE WASHINGTON

Community momentumincludes: community momentum and advocacya strong early learning system is built through strong partnerships at the local, regional, tribal and state levels. For the past decade, thrive has helped fund and support the state's 10 early learning regional coalitions with its community momentum granting strategy. The regions are key to the implementation and sustainability of washington state's early learning efforts. A strong regional infrastructure helps ensure that statewide and local organizations work together, tap into each other's wisdom, have the capacity to understand the changing demographics and needs of children and families, and set strategy to take action collectively so that all children have a greater opportunity to be successful in school and in life, particularly those furthest from opportunity.in addition to grants, thrive provides regular individual and group support to help the regions lead their community's early learning work. During the 2019 fiscal year, thrive provided capacity building assistance to the 10 coalitions, enabling them to expand and diversify membership, influence state-level policy at the department of early learning, and help plan their fifth annual advocacy day in olympia for regional representatives to meet one-on-one with their local legislators. Thrive also provided the coalitions with funds specifically to engage more parents in their advocacy work. Grants helped support local events, trainings and storytelling.during the 2019 fiscal year, the 10 individual coalitions joined together to form washington communities for children (wcfc) and became a stand-alone organization. This was the last year that thrive will serve as an intermediary for early learning regional coalition funds. Thrive and wcfc used the fiscal year to transition knowledge.