The Parenting Support Initiative (2013-2016) enabled Katharine Howard Foundation (KHF) in partnership with The Community Foundation for Ireland to provide strategic grants over three years to 16 Core Projects with a focus on supporting parents of young children under 3 years. The initiative has provided great insight and learning into this important area of work which highlighted the breadth of the work and the range of creative models and approaches to engaging with and supporting parents of young children. The PSI aimed to support projects and initiatives that promote and support parents in their parental role, improve outcomes (health, wellbeing and learning) for their young children (from birth to 3 years) and work in a collaborative and integrated way.
The grants programme sought to identify and learn from community based parent support programmes and projects that encouraged creative and innovative ways of supporting parents of young children and promoted and built on good practice using evidence-based and/or evidence informed approaches. PSI focused on supporting a number of projects in socio-economically disadvantaged areas or specific socially disadvantaged (target) groups, engaged in collaborative approaches to working with parents of children from birth to 3 years.
“The Trustees of KHF are pleased that this initiative was so successful, in no small way due to the efforts and commitment of a large number of people. The experience of this particular partnership and the positive relationships with the staff at The Community Foundation for Ireland reinforces a belief in the benefits of collaboration and working together.”
Katherine Howard Foundation
The Community Foundation for Ireland often collaborates with other trusts and foundations to maximise the impact of our philanthropy. We are committed to ensuring our grant making is used to achieve meaningful social change and this can often not be done through the means of one philanthropic organisation alone. Another example of a successful case of collaboration is through the Older Persons’ Fund where we partnered with Atlantic Philanthropies. This fund provides longer-term and larger scale grants in the areas of active citizenship and ensuring the voice of older people is heard by those providing services and making policy decisions. To see more ways that we partner with other charitable organisations click here.
To download the complete report on the Parenting Support Initiative including the outcomes of grantees click here.