Fulfilling the Promise: Our Children Deserve the Best Supporting the WHOLE Child: Educationally, Physically, Spiritually, Mentally, Emotionally, and Socially This week, take the time to address needs that support the WHOLE Child’s wellbeing.  Below you’ll find a list of activities that you can participate in with your family and in your community:   EDUCATIONALLY Make learning fun! Get involved with your child during homework time.  Instead of your children completing their homework alone, try to make their homework assignments more

Each year, NBCDI publishes a beautiful Calendar of Children, which features pictures, poems, and daily events in Black history to enlighten and inspire and educate, as well as celebrate the beauty of our children.  The proceeds from the calendar are used to support the positive work of the organization, benefiting children and families in our affiliate cities and around the United States.   You are invited to submit photos and/or poems for possible inclusion in the 2013 calendar.  Photographic Guidelines Submissions

The National Black Child Development Institute is proud to officially endorse Screen-Free Week (April 30-May 6), the annual celebration where children, families, schools, and communities turn off screens and turn on life.  Please visit http://www.screenfree.org/ to join the fun and to download your free Screen-Free Week Organizer’s Kit.  It’s packed with fact sheets, great suggestions for screen-free activities, pledge cards, and more! We all know that children spend far too much time with screens: an astonishing average of 32 hours

Want to make a REAL Change?  APPLY Now for the REAL Change Scholarship! Passionate young voices are needed to end poverty in America, and around the world. This summer, the RESULTS International Conference offers a chance for 18 to 25 year-olds to build their advocacy skills and put them into practice on Capitol Hill.   RESULTS Educational Fund is pleased to offer REF’s Emerging Activist Leaders(REAL) Change Scholarship for all but $100 of the cost of conference registration, travel to

It is all about Play Time!!! Check out our Spring 2012 edition of Child Health Talk.  Find out the importance of “play” and ways to promote healthy play time with the entire family! CLICK HERE to download Child Health Talk Spring 2012 For more information, access prior issues, or if would like to submit an article, please contact Angele’ Doyne at  adoyne@nbcdi.org

After serving as CEO and President for nearly five years, Dr. Carol Brunson Day will pass the baton of leadership over to Dr. Felicia DeHaney, who comes to NBCDI after serving as the Interim Assistant Superintendent for Early Childhood Education and Director of School Preparedness for the District of Columbia’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education. No stranger to NBCDI having served as Project Director for the Kellogg Foundation funded program Supporting Partnerships to Assure Ready Kids (SPARK) from 2006

                                                                                                                                Contact: Kelly Cheeseman, Walmart                                                                                                                                              1-800-331-0085   The National Black Child Development Institute Receives $300K Grant from the Walmart Foundation to Support Nutrition Education  Donation is part of $9.5 Million Give to Help U.S. Families Access the Information Needed to Live Healthier Lives   [WASHINGTON, D.C.], February 6, 2012 – Today, The National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI) announced it has received a $300,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation to promote healthy eating habits among American

To reach more child care providers and encourage state participation in the Let’s Move! Child Care (LMCC) initiative, NACCRRA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and  the Administration for Children and Families Office of Child Care have launched  a nationwide competition, the Let’s Move! Child Care State Challenge. States  have the opportunity to be recognized in two categories: 1) the state with the  highest percentage of licensed or legally operating child care programs that  sign up as LMCC participants,

Mixed results from the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress released on November 1 paint a complex picture of student achievement at the fourth and eighth grade levels, in both reading and mathematics.  While the National Black Child Development Institute is pleased to note that several states have had success in narrowing their racial and economic achievement gaps, and increasing their overall performances, we continue to be challenged by the fact that there were no significant changes in fourth grade