It’s simple: Excellent early childhood education requires excellent educators.

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Without highly-trained staff who have access to continuing education and development — and who feel valued and supported long-term — programs like ours crumble. Those who suffer most in the face of that loss? Children.

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Without highly-trained staff who have access to continuing education and development — and who feel valued and supported long-term — programs like ours crumble. Those who suffer most in the face of that loss? Children.

The current socio-economic dynamics in Teton County make it extremely difficult to recruit and retain sustainable, long-term staff at our nonprofit organizations. This instability is not only challenging on an organizational management level, but also causes disruption and potentially harmful ramifications for the children and families we serve.

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In serving disadvantaged children, Children’s Learning Center, Jackson Hole Children’s Museum, and Teton Literacy Center need to raise a collective $1.62 million annually to realize these benefits for our children and communities. And collectively supporting these programs through the Champions for Children fundraiser triples your philanthropical impact.

$85K

Average Cost of Living for a single person in Teton County, WY

$85K

Average Cost of Living for a single person in Teton County, WY

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Support Teton County Kids

For every dollar spent on early education annually, your community saves $9 in future remediation costs, associated with incarceration, truancy, school dropout, and teen pregnancy.

— Landmark 2004 study by James Heckman, a Nobel-prize winning economist.

 

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For every dollar spent on early education annually, your community saves $9 in future remediation costs, associated with incarceration, truancy, school dropout, and teen pregnancy.

— Landmark 2004 study by James Heckman, a Nobel-prize winning economist.



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Did You Know?


“85% of brain development occurs before the age of 5, but only 14% of public education dollars are spent on early childhood education in the US.”
Source: America’s Edge, Rand Corporation and the National Institute for Early Education Research.

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Donate to Champions for Children to improve access and opportunity for early childhood education programs that support the children and families of Teton County.