February is Family Support Awareness Month
February is Family Support Awareness Month. This time of year highlights the critical work done by specific Smart Start-funded programs, home visiting and parenting education (HVPE). Early childhood home visiting and parenting education programs strengthen the...
Smart Start of Mecklenburg County Awards New Innovation Grants
Smart Start of Mecklenburg County is known for its allocation of state, county, and private funds to local early childhood serving agencies. In order to increase impact and innovation, Smart Start of Mecklenburg County granted over $313,000 in one-time funding for...
Join Us For Our Annual Bidders’ Workshop
Smart Start is accepting program applications for the FY22-23 funding cycle. You are invited to attend our upcoming workshop to learn more! About this event Smart Start of Mecklenburg County (SSMC) helps children turn five ready to thrive. SSMC is an innovator,...
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Celebrates 5 Years in Charlotte
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is available to children in over 2,000 communities across the world, including Mecklenburg County.Since launching in 1995, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has become an internationally recognized early childhood book-gifting...
Renewal of Hope
For the past couple of years, readers of newsletters like these have been accustomed to the doom and gloom opening letter. Let’s face it; there hasn’t been a lot of good stuff to talk about. The yo-yo nature of the pandemic has cruelly manipulated hope, while the...
Innovation Grant Recipient Update | Queen City Cocoa B.E.A.N.S.
Smart Start of Mecklenburg County is known for allocating state, county, and private funds to local early childhood serving agencies. To increase impact and innovation, Smart Start of Mecklenburg County granted over $313,000 in one-time funding for Innovation Grants –...
Turn Five Ready to Thrive
Smart Start of Mecklenburg County
(704) 377-6588
601 E. 5th Street, Suite 500
Charlotte, NC 28202