There’s still time to make a difference!

As the year comes to a close, we celebrate all our community has done to advance the work of early childhood education. With your support, Trying Together has advocated for the needs and rights of young children, collaborated with families, and facilitated inclusive learning opportunities for educators.

Gifts will be accepted through Tuesday, December 31, 2024. Donations will support our end-of-calendar year giving goals.

Trying Together has released its donor impact report for 2022-24, sharing the various initiatives that donors have helped support over the past two years. This report highlights stories of impact and provides information on giving opportunities.

The Playful Resources Series highlights several topics related to the benefits of play, incorporating play into daily life, play equity, and more.

Future topics and related resources will be released periodically through 2027.

When you donate to Trying Together you are helping to create a future in which:

• all children have access to high-quality, early learning environments;
• all families have the resources they need to support their children’s early learning experiences; and
• all caregivers feel valued.

Please consider participating in #GivingTuesday on November 28 by making a donation to Trying Together! Help us continue to advocate together, learn together, and partner together to make sure caregivers and families have the resources they need to make the best decisions regarding children’s early learning experiences.

Trying Together provides early childhood teachers with essential professional growth opportunities at low or no cost to ensure that every child has access to high-quality early childhood and early learning experiences.

Staff have worked with program administrators, classroom teachers, and assistant teachers and home-based child care providers to develop new skills and continuously improve their early childhood teaching practices to achieve higher program quality.

In 2018, Trying Together launched its Strategic Roadmap.

As the end of 2022 approaches, Trying Together reflects on the significant progress that was made in achieving its goals, instances where it was necessary to pivot and reprioritize to meet the needs of children, families, and educators, and opportunities to expand upon this work in 2023 and beyond.

Parents are a child’s first and most important teacher. The importance of the everyday interactions that adults have with the young children in their care have a great impact on their healthy development and learning. Thank you for utilizing Trying Together’s digital resources.

• Request free printed materials from our Developmentally Appropriate Parenting Series.
• Let us know your feedback and ideas for new resources via an anonymous survey.
• Record a video sharing your experience with utilizing our parent and caregiver resources.
• Consider making a small donation to help Trying Together continue to provide free resources for families in Western Pennsylvania.

Social media is a powerful tool for advocacy, even if you don’t consider yourself to be an ‘expert.’

If you spend time on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn, you can use those platforms to advocate for issues that are important to you. For the Summer of Play in 2021, use social media to promote learning through play and engaging in playful activities.

Download Summer of Play graphics (in English and Spanish) to share on social media and find sample posts and helpful tips in the toolkit.