2025 Community Coalition Grant Initiative

Applications are closed. Awardees will be announced April 18.

The Sandra Dunagan Deal Center for Early Language and Literacy and the Get Georgia Reading Campaign support our 2025 Community Coalition Grant Initiative. The Deal Center invests in projects that use the research-based pillars of the GGR Campaign as a framework for cross-sector collaboration, to advance developmentally responsive practices throughout a community, town, city, and/or county. This initiative will fund projects that support the healthy development of Georgia’s children from birth to age five. 

Up to $150,000 in grants are awarded, with individual amounts ranging from $10,000 to $24,000.

Support for Applicants

An informational webinar was held for potential applicants on March 3, 2025 from 12:00 to 1:30pm. In this webinar we covered application requirements, the submission process, and held a Q&A.

View the webinar below.

Past Awardees

The 2024 awardees were:

Creating & Growing

  • Augusta University Research Institute

  • Lucky Shoals Community Association, Inc.

  • Sumter County School System

  • Tri-County Family Connection

Strengthening & Sustaining

  • Boy With a Ball

  • Troup Family Connection Authority

  • United Way of Northwest Georgia

Scaling & Amplifying

  • Meriwether County Family Connection

  • Cobb Collaborative, Inc. 

  • Community Foundation for the CSRA

  • Cook County Family Connection

  • United Way of the Coastal Empire

  • Warren County School System