Let's Grow Kids

About Let's Grow Kids:

Let’s Grow Kids is a 501(c)3 systems-change organization leading a statewide campaign to solve Vermont’s child care crisis by 2025. With more than 35,000 supporters from all walks of life, Let’s Grow Kids is engaging and empowering people to call for change; reforming early childhood education policy to be inclusive, race-conscious and culturally informed; and implementing program solutions in partnership with early childhood educators to prepare Vermont’s child care system for increased public investment. Let’s Grow Kids works in partnership with Let’s Grow Kids Action Network, a 501c4 organization building the political will necessary to pass laws that fund and sustain and equitable child care system. Let’s Grow Kids’ campaign sunsets in 2025 upon fulfilling its mission to change policy, substantially increase public investment in Vermont’s 0-5 child care system, and support policy implementation. 

Our culture is dynamic, fast-paced, and driven by the following core values: 

• Commitment to Children: We believe that investing in the wellbeing of children birth to five is a catalyst for positive social change.

• Inclusion: We are building an organization, movement, and system that promote equity and diversity. 

• Collaboration: We support each other and our partners to realize shared success. 

• Agility: We adapt readily to our environment to ensure we're in the best position to achieve our goals. 

• Strategy: We take a focused, coordinated, data-driven approach to achieving our goals.

• Transparency: We are intentional about sharing clear and timely information about our work, priorities, mission, and values.

Our Commitment to Anti-Racism

We commit our organization, our movement, and ourselves to being anti-racist in all aspects of our work, to use our platform to raise Black voices, and to create an equitable early care and education system that advances racial justice for the next generation of Vermonters. We commit to listen actively, to learn openly, and to examine and question our privilege and tolerance of systemic racism, in order to disrupt structures of oppression.