Mission: Greenville First Steps is a local non profit that works to facilitate collaborative community partnerships for measurably improvig the early childhood development of all children in Greenville County. Greenville First Steps works to leverage state, federal, and foundation dollars to help coordinate, improve or enhance early childhood and child development opportunities within Greenville County. Our primary role is to support innovation and best practices that support parents in their role as their child's first and most important teacher. Greenville First Steps funds programs ranging from high impact, home visitation programs like Nurse Family Partnership to child care scholarships to high quality centers that make it possible for parents to return to school or work. We also support community wide mobilization campaigns such as Project Pinwheel, a county-wide program to support Child Abuse Prevention month and Read Greenville, a county-wide program to increase the awareness of the importance of reading daily. Learn more by visiting our websites: www.greenvillefirststeps.org www.ReadGreenville.com