About Get Ready Guilford
Ready for School, Ready for Life (Ready Ready) is a collaborative effort to build a connected, innovative system of care for Guilford County’s youngest children and their families, ensuring every child in Guilford County enters kindergarten prepared for success, regardless of their background.
Focus Areas
Early childhood developmentPrenatal-to-three supportsKindergarten readinessEarly literacyFamily navigation and supportsData, measurement and evaluationContinuous quality improvementCommunity systems building
Who They Fund
children ages 3-5prenatal-to-3 children and their families (PN-3)caregivers/parents receiving navigation or service coordination
About Get Ready Guilford
Get Ready Guilford concentrates its grantmaking on a connected early childhood system for Guilford County, with a strong emphasis on prenatal-to-three supports, family navigation, and kindergarten readiness. In 2025, its largest grant went to Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc for navigation and PN-3 work, signaling how central service coordination is to its strategy. The foundation also funds Ready for School Ready for Life for RR IDS, showing direct support for the local collaborative infrastructure behind its early childhood efforts. Across its recent grants, the foundation backs both large-scale systems work and smaller program grants tied to specific age bands, especially ages 3-5 and PN-3. Recipients include Children and Families First and Guilford County Department of Health and Human Services for PN-3, plus Enrichment Fund for Guilford County Schools for ages 3-5. That mix suggests a funder focused less on one-off charity and more on coordinated, age-specific investments that help children and families move through the early years with support from multiple local partners.
What Get Ready Guilford Funds
A defining theme is prenatal-to-three support. Get Ready Guilford gave $1,426,214 to Children and Families First for PN-3 work and $1,407,416 to Guilford County Department of Health and Human Services for PN-3, indicating a substantial commitment to the earliest stage of child development. Another clear line of support is family navigation and coordination. The foundation awarded $3,295,660 to Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc for navigation and PN-3, linking direct service coordination with early-childhood programming. It also funds kindergarten-readiness and early literacy work. Grants include $209,000 to Enrichment Fund for Guilford County Schools for ages 3-5, $88,750 to Reading Connections for ages 3-5 and CQI, and $73,790 to Reach Out and Read - North Carolina for ages 3-5. Those awards show attention to both school readiness and the literacy supports that help prepare children for it.
How Get Ready Guilford Gives
The recent grants show a wide size range, from $2,203 up to $3,295,660, with several awards clustered at $25,000 for CQI. The foundation’s approach is programmatic rather than individual giving, and its active grant programs are targeted community grants and continuous quality improvement grants, both limited to Guilford County, NC. Recent recipients appear repeatedly across the 2025 list, including Ready for School Ready for Life, Reading Connections, Family Service of the Piedmont, United Way of Greater Greensboro, and Kellin Foundation, which points to sustained support rather than a single-round relationship. Unsolicited applications are not accepted in the listed active programs.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$10.7M
Total Assets
$1.6M
Total Revenue
$12.3M
Total Expenses
$11.4M
Geographic Reach
Local4 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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