2024 Community Coalition Grant Initiative

The Sandra Dunagan Deal Center for Early Language and Literacy and the Get Georgia Reading Campaign are pleased to release the grant application for the FY2024 Community Coalition Grant Initiative. The Deal Center will invest in projects that use the four 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 foster optimal conditions for educational, social, language, literacy, and/or cognitive development for Georgia’s children from birth through age five. 

Up to fourteen (14) grants of $10,000-$24,000 will be awarded.  

Awards were announced April 17, 2024.  

Support for Applicants

An informational webinar was held for potential applicants on February 27th, 2024 from 11:00am to 12:30pm. The purpose of this webinar was to review the application requirements and submission process and answer questions. In addition, content experts provided a summary of the GGR Campaign four-pillar framework and presented on work with toolkits related to this grant including The Basics, Parent Nation, and Language as a Missing Link. You can view the recording of this webinar here:

Past Awardees

The 2023 awardees were as follows:

Bringing the Basics to Communities in Georgia:

  • The Housing Authority of the City of Dalton

  • Lanier County Family Connection

  • Atlanta Fulton Family Connection, Inc.

  • Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System

  • United Way of Northwest Georgia 

Sustaining the Basics in Georgia: 

  • Advocates for Bartow's Children, Inc.

  • Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Georgia

  • Cobb Collaborative, Inc.

  • Cobb & Douglas Public Health

  • Cook County Family Connection

  • Early County Literacy Task Force

  • Marshes of Glynn Libraries

  • Meriwether County School System (MCSS)

  • Unified Government of Georgetown-Quitman County

  • Troup Family Connection Authority

  • United Way of Central Georgia

  • United Way of Hall County, Inc

The 2022 awardees were as follows:

Bringing the Basics to Communities in Georgia:

  • Lee County Family Connection

  • Cobb and Douglas Public Health

  • Meriwether County Family Connection

  • United Way of Hall County

  • Boys and Girls Club of Southeast Georgia

Sustaining the Basics in Georgia: 

  • Advocates for Children, Bartow County

  • Cobb Collaborative

  • Cook County Family Connection

  • Early County Family Connection

  • Glynn County Family Connection

  • Lumpkin Literacy

  • Quitman County Family Connection

  • Troup County Family Connection

  • The University of West Georgia COE Early Learning Center

  • United Way of Central Georgia