About NHSA’s Dollar per Child Campaign Millions of American children are in desperate need of the window of opportunity for success that Head Start and Early Head Start can provide. Through the Dollar Per Child Campaign, the National Head Start Association (NHSA) ensures that the voices of these at-risk children and their families are heard. Only Dollar Per Child contributions fund NHSA’s advocacy efforts and NHSA is the only national organization advocating for Head Start and Early Head Start. Compared with almost any other national commitment, America’s investment in Head Start is small, but it’s return is huge.
Convincing Congress and voters who are leery of any national program is extraordinarily difficult now. That’s why we need to redouble our efforts. That’s why we need a dollar per child - for all one million children in the Head Start and Early Head Start programs across the nation. Where do your contributions go? Here are some of the things your Dollar Per Child contributions have enabled us to do recently: -
Organize Stroll-in and Hands-in activities on a national scale to show the effects of sequestration -
Represent the interests of Head Start children on more than 300 Congressional visits on Capitol Hill in 2013 -
529 media pieces, letters to the editor and op-eds, were directly supported by the NHSA media team, in the first five months of 2013 alone -
Send more than 200,000 messages to Members of Congress and President Obama in 2013. - Perhaps most importantly of all, provide a unified voice for millions of Head Start children
Recognizing States and Programs We’ve formed a national DPC mobilization committee to mobilize a national fundraising campaign. They will work with state associations and local programs. You can track their progress on the leaderboard.
At the NHSA Parent Conference in December 2013, we will recognize the states that met or exceeded one dollar per every child in their state. We will honor the programs and states that raise the most funds for Dollar Per Child.
At the opening session of the Annual Head Start Conference in May, 2014, we will invite programs and states to bring the results of their Dollar Per Child campaigns before thousands of their colleagues. Year-round Webinars Throughout the year NHSA will host special Dollar Per Child Webinars and phone calls in which members of the Mobilization Committee will share local efforts, and in which local programs can get advice about how to best organize their local efforts.
NHSA will keep the community informed about our advocacy efforts and will offer many opportunities for input and conversation about our efforts. 
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