2025 Community Coalition Grant Initiative

Application opening soon!

The Sandra Dunagan Deal Center for Early Language and Literacy and the Get Georgia Reading Campaign will be releasing the application for our 2025 Community Coalition Grant Initiative soon. The Deal Center will invest 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 will be awarded, with individual amounts ranging from $10,000 to $24,000.

The RFA will be released on this page on February 17, 2025.

Support for Applicants

An informational webinar will be held for potential applicants on February 27, 2025 from 11:00am to 12:30pm. In this webinar we will cover application requirements, the submission process, and have a Q&A.

You can view last year’s 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