The Minnesota Early Learning Foundation’s mission is to recommend cost-effective strategies for preparing children to succeed in school. Thoughtfully implemented, early investments reap dividends: child development now translates into economic development later on. A child with a winning start becomes part of a solid community, contributes to our competitiveness and enriches our society. 

MELF is currently focused on the implementation of our pilot programs and their evaluations. As interim evaluation reports are completed, MELF will make their findings available to support improvement of the pilot programs and to share results as they become available. MELF is also working on developing a framework for sharing our evaluation findings and related recommendations for policy and program changes. Our final results and recommendations will be issued in late 2011 and early 2012 before we sunset.