History
Founded in 1993 by Jeffrey D. Jacobs, Civitas' charter mission was to educate front-line professionals working on behalf of abused and neglected children. With a planning grant in 1997 from The Irving Harris Foundation, Civitas explored ways to leverage its core assets to benefit a broader audience of adults living and working with children.
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Process
Civitas' core mission is to gather cutting-edge research on early childhood development and transform this content into bilingual educational tools. These tools are then broadly disseminated to caregivers and professionals through a national network composed of not-for-profit organizations, government agencies, academic institutions, foundations and corporations.
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Born Learning
Civitas is the communication group that produces Born Learning — a public engagement and material distribution campaign designed to educate and inspire communities to play an active role in children's early learning.
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Products
Civitas creates high-quality, easy-to-access tools including books, videos, tool kits, posters, training guides and web-based products. All Civitas products contain leading-edge information, grounded in science and research, communicated in ways that lead to increased knowledge and understanding on the part of the end-user. In keeping with Civitas' commitment to the principles of social enterprise, the organization uses a combination of free distribution, wholesale and retail sales and profit-share arrangements in order to ensure that its tools reach more than 5 million parents, grandparents and caregivers each year.
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