Building strong foundations for babies across the United States.

Building strong foundations for babies across the United States.

Focusing on pregnancy and a baby's earliest years, we employ a mix of administrative and legislative strategies to support healthy pregnancies, strengthen early development, and disrupt cycles of poverty.
Focusing on pregnancy and a baby's earliest years, we employ a mix of administrative and legislative strategies to support healthy pregnancies, strengthen early development, and disrupt cycles of poverty.

Policy documents

Our policy agenda

Three pillars, one direction: an agenda that works across the full lifecycle of a perinatal cash transfer.

Three pillars, one direction: an agenda that works across the full lifecycle of a perinatal cash transfer.

Public Investment: Cash in

Scale and sustain perinatal direct cash transfer programs through public investment at the state and national level — helping public agencies identify and move public dollars into unconditional cash for pregnant and parenting people.

Distribution infrastructure: Cash out

Build public infrastructure for cash distribution at scale — working with government agencies and community-based organizations to identify or develop systems for unconditional cash distributions across funding streams.

Benefit protection: cash kept

Protect public benefits so families can continue receiving as much support as possible — supporting states in drafting and implementing procedures that protect families from the benefit cliff while receivng cash.

State Agencies
Legislators
Coalition Partners

Moving this agenda takes partners in every state.

Moving this agenda takes partners in every state.

If you administer benefits, write policy, or fund this work, we can help you put perinatal cash on the table.

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