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Read the newest post on the Bernard van Leer Foundation blog, written by our Senior Advisor Joan Lombardi (written for NAEYC), about the fact that the early childhood workforce has… Read more

Foundation partner Humara Bachpan has won the 2016 Hero Award for Best Youth Act. The Hero Awards are an initiative of the "One Billion Acts of Peace" campaign, supported by… Read more

The Beginning of Life documents the lives of young children and their families across the world to help shine a light on the significance of the early years, and how… Read more

Humara Bachpan is a semi-finalist in the UN-supported One Billion Acts of Peace 2016 Hero Award. Online voting is open until May 12th, and you can see videos about Humara… Read more

A new report by the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group comprehensively explores the strength of links between early childhood interventions and outcomes in later life, looking at 55 impact evaluations… Read more

Renske Keizer (32, mother of three) will this week officially become the first Professor on Fatherhood in the world. Coming Friday she will formally inaugurate her Chair on Fatherhood at… Read more

The MenCare campaign has launched the MenCare Parental Leave Platform, a ten-point plan calling on governments and employers to improve their policies on leave for new parents. The platform was… Read more

The Bernard van Leer Foundation's Senior Advisor, Joan Lombardi, has won the 2016 Blanche F. Ittleson Award from the American Orthopsychiatric Association. The award recognises outstanding achievement in delivering children’s… Read more

Now available to download in pdf, The State of Young Children in Israel 2015 is a new report commissioned by the Bernard van Leer Foundation and prepared by the Israel… Read more

The Brookings Institute has launched two new reports on social impact bonds: one analysing how they can be used to scale up early childhood programmes, and another examining their current… Read more