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Brain Bag Sponsorship

Studer Community Institute is focused on “the first 1,000 days” of a baby’s life.

Those first 3 years of life are critical in a child’s brain development.

Research tells us that the more words a child hears by age 3, the more growth occurs in their brains. The “achievement gap” — the 30 million word gap between children from low-income families and those from better-off families is linked to early language exposure.

The Brain Bags are early literacy kits that all three major birthing hospitals in Escambia County will give to their new mothers upon discharge from the hospital. They aim to coach parents on the power that language has to build a child’s brain, especially in the critical first three years of life.

They include teaching points, developed from materials from Studer Community Institute’s partners at the University of Chicago’s Thirty Million Words Initiative, to give new parents advice about how to work more words into their interactions with their babies at home.

Studer Community Institute How You Can Help Dan Barnes Reading to Children

Giving Levels

$25,000 Donation

Logo included on 5,000 brain bags
Opportunity to provide material in the brain bag binder*

$20,000 Donation

Logo included on the back cover of the binder
Opportunity to provide material in the brain bag binder*

$15,000 Donation

Opportunity to provide material in the brain bag binder*

Brain Bag Binder - community resources and shared content to help new parents know where to go at glance for help, advice and guidance locally. It’s all designed to be the first of many conversations we hope to help start with new parents about how important it is to talk to their babies.

*Any collateral in the Brain Bag must be approved by Studer Community Institute and is required to be relevant and educational to the audience receiving the Brain Bags.

Studer Community Institute How You Can Help Siblings Reading

Studer Community Institute How You Can Help Mother and Son Reading

Studer Community Institute How You Can Help Volunteers

Our early learning projects are made possible by the support of our donors, partners and sponsors. Their generosity is improving the quality of life in our community.

Thank you for helping make Pensacola an Early Learning City.

$100,000 or more

$25,000 or more

Kim & Julian MacQueen – Innisfree Hotels
Pen Air Federal Credit Union

$10,000 or more

Gulf Power Foundation
Sacred Heart Health System
Pensacola Rotary
Tom Paux
Early Learning Coalition of Escambia County
Area Housing Commission
Thirty Million Words Regatta

$5,000 or more

Chris Janes
Bear Family Foundation
Harold Dawson
Jerry Pate Design
Morette Company
COX
Andrew Rothfeder
Baptist Health Care
Panhandle Charitable Open
Victor Wallace
Gulf Breeze Pools and Spas
Cindi Bonner
Alan Davis
NAI Pensacola
Synovous Bank
Ann Neal

$1,000 or more

$500 or more

Connie Bookman
Kevin Mair
Cody and Hannah Whitehair
Brian and Cristina Williams
Dick Baker
Mike Morette
Nancy Fetterman
Julie Sheppard
YMCA Northwest Florida
Baptist Heart and Vascular Institute
John Bullock
Hill Crawford
Chad Henderson
Myron Mickelson
Diane Peterson
Frank Cutrone
Will Dunaway
Sonny Granger
Rhett James
Luke Jernigan
Philomena Madden
Larry Northrup
Jenny Buckley
Chris and Jen Roney

$100 or more

You, too, can join us in our mission to improve the quality of life. Help us as we work together to make Pensacola the best place in the world to live and raise a family.

To learn more, contact Nicole Webb Bodie, Director of Community and Business Outreach, at nwebb@studeri.org.

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