Blog
Announcing 8 Help Me Grow awardees
Children and families thrive when they have access to the resources they need – when, where, and how they need them. Our Help Me Grow strategy provides families with warm connections and direct support – not just referrals – to navigate systems...
Announcing the 27 awardees of the Youth Healing Project
Young people have deep expertise about the resources and supports they and their peers need to be well. That's why Best Starts funds the Youth Healing Project, which provides mini grants to young people to create mental health supports for their...
Non-Best Starts for Kids Funding Opportunities List – November to January deadlines
At Best Starts we are working to build long-term sustainable supports for our community so that every baby born and child raised is happy, healthy, safe and thriving. Part of building sustainable systems is recognizing we can’t do it all on our...
We’re hiring a Systems & Policy Change Manager!
The application deadline is November 23, 2025 at 11:59 pm Pacific. Apply now! Best Starts for Kids is hiring a Systems & Policy Change Manager to support our Communities of Opportunity investment. Job Duties Establish and maintain...
Child Care workers: join an upcoming summit to learn about the impact of government investments in the workforce
Join the upcoming Child Care Worker Summit November 15! If you work in a child care facility, or support child care work, register to attend the summit where you learn about findings from the Best Starts for Kids Child Care Worker Wage Boost...
We’re hiring a Child Care Evaluator!
The application deadline is November 15, 2025 at 11:59 pm Pacific. Apply now! Best Starts for Kids is hiring an evaluator to support our Child Care strategies. This position is centrally located within the Performance Measurement and Evaluation...
Learn about the child care workers enrolled in the Best Starts for Kids Child Care Wage Boost Pilot
Child care is the work that makes all other work possible. But for too long, child care workers have been underpaid and underrecognized for the essential work they do. We’re working to change that. That’s why we launched the Best...
Learn about King County’s child care workforce at an upcoming Best Starts webinar
The Best Starts for Kids Wage Boost Pilot is hosting a webinar Nov. 6 that will present learnings about King County’s child care workforce gathered from a 2025 survey. Register here to join us Thursday, November 6 from 1:30-2:45pm. ...
We’re hiring an Administrative Staff Assistant!
The application deadline is October 28, 2025 at 11:59 pm Pacific. Apply now! Best Starts for Kids is hiring an Administrative Staff Assistant to support the Best Starts for Kids leadership team consisting of cross-departmental teams in Public...
Our winter Best Starts playlist: rewatch info sessions for opportunities releasing in October – December, 2025
At Best Starts, we are working in deep partnership across the initiative to share open and upcoming opportunities with the community. If there is an opportunity that you are interested in learning more about and applying for, we encourage you to...
Best Starts Workshops
We offer equity-centered workshops for King County early childhood providers.
Best Starts for Kids Dashboard
This dashboard shows the impact of Best Starts funding across its eight investment areas: Child Care, Investing Early, Sustain the Gain, Youth and Family Homelessness Prevention Initiative, Communities of Opportunity, Capital Projects, Technical Assistance and Capacity Building, and Data and Evaluation.