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Our winter Best Starts playlist: rewatch info sessions for opportunities releasing in October – December, 2025

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Our summer Best Starts playlist: rewatch info sessions for opportunities releasing in July – September, 2025

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Our summer Best Starts playlist: rewatch info sessions for opportunities releasing in July – September, 2025

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Our spring Best Starts playlist: rewatch info sessions for opportunities releasing in April – June, 2025

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Our winter Best Starts playlist: rewatch info sessions for opportunities releasing in January – March, 2025

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Our Best Starts playlist: rewatch 2024 recorded info sessions!

Were you unable to join a recent Best Starts information session? Check out this blog post to view the latest info session recordings and/or slideshows for partnership opportunities releasing in 2024.

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Our Best Starts playlist: rewatch recorded info sessions from April to December, 2023!

Were you unable to join a recent Best Starts information session? Check out this blog post to view the latest info session recordings and/or slideshows for partnership opportunities releasing this spring from April to June 2023.

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Our winter Best Starts playlist: rewatch recorded info sessions from January to March, 2023!

Were you unable to join a recent Best Starts information session? Check out this blog post to view the latest info session recordings and/or slideshows for partnership opportunities releasing this winter from January to March 2023.

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Our fall Best Starts playlist: rewatch recorded info sessions from October to December, 2022!

Were you unable to join a recent Best Starts information session? Check out this blog post to view the latest info session recordings and/or slideshows for partnership opportunities releasing this fall from October to December 2022.

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Our summer Best Starts playlist: rewatch recorded info sessions from July to September, 2022!

Were you unable to join a recent Best Starts information session? Check out this blog post to view the latest info session recordings and/or slideshows for partnership opportunities releasing this summer from July to September 2022.

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Best Starts workshops May-August 2026

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Register for the First-Ever King County Youth Leadership Summit!

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Everything you need to know: Culturally Responsive Measurement Tool- Protective Factors

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For early childhood providers: apply to join a Community Circle by April 24

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Measuring Indigenous identities: learnings from Best Starts’ evaluation team

The exclusion and erasure of Indigenous people in data is rooted in colonial research practices that are deeply embedded in Western systems of data. Indigenous people have always a collected, analyzed, and shared data in their own ways that have been ignored and discounted by many “mainstream” data projects. This underscores the need to rethink race and ethnicity measures with Indigenous people, organizations, and Native nations.

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Save the date: King County Youth Leadership Summit on May 30

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Register for the IECMH Summit on May 15-16

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Save the date: IECMH Summit on May 15-16

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In their Own Words: Community-led Data Partners Share New Reports    

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New dashboard: Find a Best Starts Capital Project near you!  

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We’re hiring an Early Supports Supervisor!

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2026 Summer activities for kids and young people

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Announcing the Communications Partner for the Child Care Worker Wage Boost Pilot  

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We’re hiring three Best Starts Strategy Leads!

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Learn More About the Youth Action Plan Transmitted to Council

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We’re changing our funding application platform; here’s what organizations need to know  

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Need help paying for child care? The Best Starts Child Care Subsidy is now enrolling families! 

King County families can now enroll in a subsidy that will help them save an average of $15,000 in child care costs.

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Introducing the new Best Starts blog! 

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We’re hiring an Educator Consultant I (Perinatal Hepatitis B Prevention)!

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Announcing 61 Investing Early RFP awardees 

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Save the date for the Transitions to Adulthood funding opportunity!

Save the date for the Transitions to Adulthood funding opportunity!

by Rainy Day Prosper | Feb 8, 2022 | Best Starts Funding Opportunities

Save the Date for the Best Starts Transitions to Adulthood request for proposal (RFP) planning to open on Tuesday, February 22, 2022! Best Starts is seeking to partner with community-based organizations to support youth and young adults, 16 – 24 years old, as they...
Best Starts for Kids Virtual Open House

Best Starts for Kids Virtual Open House

by Rainy Day Prosper | Jan 4, 2022 | Events & Workshops

Best Starts for Kids will host a virtual open house for existing and prospective community partners to learn more about the opportunities for funding in the first quarter of 2022. Way back in 2017, Best Start for Kids headed out on the road to spread the word about...
Looking Towards Best Starts for Kids 2.0: A Message from Sheila & Marcy

Looking Towards Best Starts for Kids 2.0: A Message from Sheila & Marcy

by Rainy Day Prosper | Dec 10, 2021 | Announcements

To our community, Last month, we shared that Best Starts for Kids reached the final important step in the legislative process and that we are now moving into the next phase of implementing the Best Starts for Kids Implementation Plan. As we prepare to launch our...
Moving forward on our plan for Best Starts for Kids

Moving forward on our plan for Best Starts for Kids

by Rainy Day Prosper | Nov 24, 2021 | Announcements

To our community, We are proud to share that yesterday the King County Council voted unanimously to pass the Best Starts for Kids budget. This marks an important last step in the legislative process for Best Starts for Kids and finalizes our Implementation Plan. With...
Communities of Opportunity (COO) Request for Proposals: Speaker Series Design

Communities of Opportunity (COO) Request for Proposals: Speaker Series Design

by Rainy Day Prosper | Sep 14, 2020 | Best Starts Funding Opportunities

Photo from the 2019 Equitable Development Summit by Sharon Chang Communities of Opportunity seeks an individual, organization, or team to co-design with COO staff and stakeholders a new speaker series. The purpose of the speaker series is to create a platform to...
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