Our Impact

SCAN Believes Every Child Deserves the Best Start in Life

We believe that children’s voices deserve to be heard, their rights realized, and their issues given top priority. In 2022 SCAN has mobilized a movement of local volunteers and online supporters to advocate tirelessly on behalf of children. In an increasingly fractured political environment, we work in a bipartisan manner to ensure our elected officials come together in support of our nation’s children.

2022 Policy Wins

A Political Voice For Kids

A Political Voice For Kids

In 2022, we met with U.S. lawmakers more than 250 TIMES & GENERATED 840,000 messages urging them to invest in children in the U.S. and worldwide.

Global Food Security Act

Global Food Security Act

We helped pass the GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY ACT, securing $5 MILLION in emergency food assistance.

Mental Awareness Month

Mental Awareness Month

 During Mental Awareness Month (May 2022) advocates like you across the country urged their lawmakers to co-sponsor and pass the MINDS ACT, sending 85,000 messages to Congress and securing 26 new co-sponsors.

 

Volunteers Mobilizing for Ukraine

Volunteers Mobilizing for Ukraine

In less than 48 hours after the war in Ukraine began, our volunteers started mobilizing their Peer-to-Peer fundraisers to support the children and families being displaced – raising over $2.5 million dollars for Ukraine programs in just a few weeks.

Fighting For Child Nutrition Programs

Fighting For Child Nutrition Programs

In February, volunteers and children from our SCAN states sent thousands of Valentine’s Day cards to lawmakers to urge support for Child Nutrition Reauthorization.

Advocating For SNAP Benefits

Advocating For SNAP Benefits

Save the Children Action Network (SCAN) commissioned a poll from a bipartisan team to assess voter’ level of support for strengthening and expanding SNAP. The poll results were clear: voters agree we must strengthen SNAP.

State Legislative Victories

Across 10 state legislatures, we helped secure nearly $800 million in investments to expand early learning programs and ensure American children have enough to eat. Some of our biggest victories included:

  • In Colorado, we secure $100 million to expand access to high-quality early education and care programs, such as home visiting and family, friend and neighbor child care.
  • In Kentucky, we helped win universal full-day kindergarten for all children in the state, securing an investment of $126 million.
  • In New Mexico, we worked to secure $205 million to create 735 new preschool slots, provide 800 home visiting slots for infants, and expose 7,000 preschoolers to early literacy programming.
  • In Washington, we helped expand access to free school meals for an additional 92,000 school children in the state with an investment of $21.5 million.
  • In Louisiana, we organized in support of $84 million in new early learning investments, including an increase to the Child Care Assistance Program, a matching fund for parishes and cities to use their local dollars to expand early learning programs, and more.

2022 Electoral Wins

In 2022, we leveraged our grassroots and earned media capacity combined with a mix of paid tactics – including targeted digital ads and live calls – to help secure these major victories for children on November 8:

  • Reelected Governors Lujan Grisham (NM), Polis (CO), and Little (ID)
  • Passed Constitutional Amendment 1 in New Mexico, which will provide permanent, dedicated funding for early learning
  • Passed Proposition FF in Colorado, which will create a universal public school meals program
  • Elected a slate of bipartisan champions for kids in Iowa (1 state senator and 2 state representatives) and in New Hampshire (4 state senators)

By holding elected leaders accountable, we are helping kids from birth to age 5 survive and thrive.