Pennsylvania Partnerships For Children

What Pennsylvania Partnerships For Children does

Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children (PPC) is a statewide, independent, non-partisan nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1992 and headquartered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The organization is dedicated to improving the health, education, and well-being of Pennsylvania's 2.6 million children across five core policy areas: Child Welfare, Early Care and Education, Home Visiting, K-12 Education, and Perinatal and Child Health. PPC mobilizes grassroots supporters, conducts direct engagement with state legislators, and publishes data-driven research to influence policy and budget decisions affecting children and families.

PPC's core offerings consist of a portfolio of research programs and interactive data tools rather than a commercial product platform. These include the annual State of the Child report with county-level profiles for all 67 Pennsylvania counties, the KIDS COUNT Data Center (more than 150 indicators at state, county, school district, and city levels) hosted as part of the national Annie E. Casey Foundation KIDS COUNT network, the State of the Child Interactive Maps developed in collaboration with Harrisburg University, the H.R. 1: Mapping the Cuts federal policy analysis tool, the State of Children's Health Insurance Report, the State of Early Care and Education Report, and the annual Policy Roadmap. All publications and tools are distributed free of charge.

PPC operates as a donation-funded nonprofit with 11-50 employees, a single Harrisburg headquarters, and no disclosed subsidiaries or parent organization. Revenue is generated through contributions from individuals and supporters; the organization has no disclosed funding rounds, M&A activity, or commercial pricing. PPC anchors a coalition of 167 Pennsylvania organizations mobilized around children's program protection and serves as principal partner in Pre-K for PA, Start Strong PA, Early Learning PA, and Thriving PA campaigns. Leadership is led by President and CEO Kari King, with Vice President of Public Policy Becky Ludwick and Policy Director Maggie Livelsberger.

Name

Pennsylvania Partnerships For Children

Legal name

Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children

Website

https://papartnerships.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children is a statewide nonprofit advocacy organization that conducts data-driven research, publishes policy reports, and leads coalition campaigns to improve health, education, and well-being outcomes for Pennsylvania's 2.6 million children.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Children's Advocacy and Policy Research

NAICS

Individual and Family Services (6241), Other Individual and Family Services (624190), Child and Youth Services (62411)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Early Childhood & Child Development Policy Research (EDADADAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Maternal, Child & Family Health Departments (HLAJAAAK), Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health Administration (BPAIAJAJ), Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in Education (EDADALAD)

Keywords

• Children's policy advocacy
• Child well-being research
• Nonprofit policy research
• KIDS COUNT data
• Early childhood education advocacy

Headquarters

HQ city

Harrisburg

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Contributions: The organization accepts donations from individuals and supporters to fund its advocacy operations and research activities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children produces data-driven research reports, interactive mapping tools, and policy advocacy resources focused on improving the health, education, and well-being of Pennsylvania's 2.6 million children. Its core deliverables include the annual State of the Child report, the State of Children's Health Insurance report, the State of Early Care and Education report, the KIDS COUNT Data Center, interactive county-level maps, and a 2025-26 Policy Roadmap covering child welfare, early care and education, home visiting, K-12 education, and perinatal and child health. All resources are provided free of charge to policymakers, advocates, media, and the public.

Product overview

Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children operates as a nonprofit advocacy organization offering a unified portfolio of research programs and data tools rather than a commercial product platform. The core offerings consist of data-driven reports (State of the Child, State of Children's Health Insurance, State of Early Care and Education), interactive mapping tools (State of the Child Interactive Maps, H.R. 1: Mapping the Cuts), the KIDS COUNT Data Center, and strategic policy roadmaps. These programs work together to provide comprehensive child well-being data, policy analysis, and advocacy resources for policymakers, researchers, and the public across Pennsylvania's 67 counties.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• State of the Child Report

Quantifiable outcome

• Pennsylvania ranked 18th in overall child well-being nationally according to 2026 Kids Count Data Book
• +2 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• 167 Pennsylvania Organizations CoalitionflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2025A coalition of 167 Pennsylvania organizations signed a letter opposing cuts to Medicaid in the Federal budget, united to protect health coverage for children and families.
• Annie E. Casey Foundation (KIDS COUNT)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPennsylvania Partnerships for Children serves as the state partner for the Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT program, producing the annual Data Book rankings and maintaining the Pennsylvania KIDS COUNT Data Center with over 150 child well-being indicators.
• Early Learning PA CoalitioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPennsylvania Partnerships for Children is a principal partner of the Early Learning PA coalition, working to advance early childhood education and pre-K access across the state.
• Pre-K for PA CampaigncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPennsylvania Partnerships for Children supports the Pre-K for PA campaign, advocating for increased state funding for pre-kindergarten programs.
• Start Strong PAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to address infant and toddler early intervention services and early childhood education workforce issues.
• Harrisburg UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on the State of the Child interactive maps project, allowing users to visually explore child well-being indicators across Pennsylvania counties and school districts.
• Thriving PA CampaigncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership focused on early intervention program funding and support for infants and toddlers with developmental delays.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY): Philadelphia-based Pennsylvania statewide child advocacy nonprofit focused on child health, early learning, and juvenile justice — a direct sibling organization to PPC operating in the same state with the same policy advocacy mission.
• Ohio Children's Alliance: Statewide Ohio advocacy and services coalition for children's behavioral health and child welfare — a direct functional peer operating in a neighboring state with the same child welfare advocacy and policy-research model.
• Voices for Virginia's Children: Virginia KIDS COUNT state partner and child advocacy nonprofit producing state-specific child well-being data and policy advocacy — operates the same KIDS COUNT state-partner model as PPC in a comparable Mid-Atlantic state.
• Michigan League for Public Policy: Michigan-based independent policy research and advocacy organization that publishes Kids Count in Michigan data and lobbies on child poverty, health, and education — a direct state-level peer using the same KIDS COUNT data advocacy framework.

Broad incumbents

• Annie E. Casey Foundation: National child welfare foundation that produces the KIDS COUNT Data Book and funds state-level partners like PPC. AECF operates at a national scale on the same child well-being indicators PPC tracks statewide, and is both a strategic partner and a benchmark organization.
• Children's Defense Fund: National child advocacy organization that publishes child well-being data and lobbies federal and state policymakers on child welfare, health coverage, and education — directly comparable in mission and methodology to PPC at a national scope.
• First Focus on Children: National bipartisan advocacy organization dedicated to making children a federal policy priority — a comparable policy-advocacy peer to PPC operating at the federal level on child welfare, child health, and tax policy affecting children.

Emerging players

• Pennsylvania Association for the Education of Young Children (PennAEYC): Pennsylvania's statewide early childhood education professional association — overlapping with PPC's Early Care & Education vertical, particularly on pre-K access and workforce policy, but focused on provider professional development rather than broad child welfare advocacy.
• Fight Crime: Invest in Kids: National anti-crime organization that advocates for investments in early childhood education, after-school programs, and child welfare — overlaps with PPC's evidence-based advocacy model but with a law-and-order framing rather than a children's rights framing.

Regional players

• United Way of Pennsylvania: Statewide federation of United Way offices that funds and advocates for child and family services in Pennsylvania — overlapping with PPC on early childhood, family stability, and health access advocacy within the same geography.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/PAP4Children
• Facebookfacebook.com/pages/Pennsylvania-Partnerships-for-Children/343849106998

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

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M&A

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