PNC Grow Up Great grants
PNC Grow Up Great grants support nonprofits offering early learning, educator development, and family engagement to help children from birth through age five prepare for success in school and life.
Funder: PNC Financial Services Group
Due Dates: No application deadline specified
Funding Amounts: $500 million multi-year initiative; individual grant amounts not specified
Summary: Supports nonprofit early education programs, educator development, and family engagement benefiting children from birth through age five.
Key Information: At least 51% of children served must be from low- to moderate-income families, with supporting documentation required.
Description
PNC Grow Up Great is the PNC Foundation’s signature bilingual early education initiative, launched in 2004 to help children from birth through age five prepare for success in school and life. The initiative reports having served more than 10 million children. Through partnerships with community-based nonprofits, its grants aim to improve school readiness and strengthen children, families, and communities where PNC lives and works.
Supported approaches include direct learning programs in classrooms or community settings, professional and workforce development for early childhood educators, and family or community engagement in early learning. Focus areas include math, science, reading, vocabulary development, the arts, financial education, and social-emotional development. Examples include educational museum visits connected to classroom lessons, early childhood outreach, and outdoor learning environments with educational or arts-based components.
