BBF Announces 2026 VECF Grant Recipients
Building Bright Futures is excited to announce the recipients of our Vermont Early Childhood Fund (VECF) awards for 2026! The fund ...
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Vermont Early Ed Bulletin: Child Care Affordability, New Act 76 Data, and More
This month, we’re sharing a piece we think is especially timely: our analysis of why child care affordability headlines often don’t ...
The Importance of Food, Housing, and Other Basic Needs in the Strategic Plan
Have you taken a look at Vermont’s Early Childhood Strategic Plan 2030? This is Vermont’s plan on how we want to ...
Announcing New Application Round for VECF Grants
On Monday, March 23, Building Bright Futures will begin accepting applications for Vermont Early Childhood Fund (VECF) Grants for the May ...
Our Impact in 2025
I’m excited to share our newly released 2025 Impact Report, which highlights the achievements of Building Bright Futures and our 500-person ...
Celebrating Progress on Data Access and Integration Made Possible by the Preschool Development Grant
The Preschool Development Grant (PDG) is investing $23 million in Vermont’s early childhood system from 2023 through 2025. This federal grant ...
BBF Announces 2025 VECF Grant Recipients
Building Bright Futures is excited to announce the recipients of our Vermont Early Childhood Fund (VECF) awards for 2025! The fund ...
Save the Date: Regional Council Summit on Oct. 16 in Montpelier
We hope you’ll join us for the 6th Annual BBF Statewide Regional Council Summit, an in-person event dedicated to addressing the ...
Participate in the 2025 BBF & RAPID Family Needs Survey
“Access to paid family leave would have made my pregnancy and maternity leave so much less stressful and would have improved ...
Head Start at Risk: The Vital Need for Proactive Funding Solutions
As Vermont’s Early Childhood State Advisory Council named in the Federal Head Start Act, Building Bright Futures (BBF) is deeply concerned ...
Help BBF Improve by Taking a Brief Survey
Please complete the annual Building Bright Futures (BBF) Network Partner Survey by Friday, May 9. It will take just 5 minutes. ...
Video and Highlights from Our Act 76 Grand Rounds Panel
In March, five experts joined our Early Childhood Grand Rounds panel to talk about Vermont’s Act 76, Vermont’s landmark child care ...
