The Burke Foundation invests in transformative maternal and child health and early childhood initiatives to build a cycle of opportunity across generations in New Jersey and beyond.
We fund transformative prenatal-to-early childhood initiatives in order to unlock the full potential of children and their communities.
Our Areas of Investment
Healthy Births and Strong Beginnings
Investing in prenatal and postnatal care to improve birth outcomes and set children up for success.
Healthy Parent-Child Relationships
Supporting programs that provide nurturing care and promote strong relationships between children and caregivers.
Early Care and Learning
Ensuring that families have access to high-quality early childhood care and education.
Building a Strong and Diverse Perinatal Workforce
Advancing efforts to grow and diversify the perinatal workforce to deliver effective, patient-centered care and enable program scale-up.
Midwifery Report
The Burke Foundation and the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute is releasing a new report:
Delivering Better Care: Midwifery Practice in New Jersey
The report will explore the practice of midwifery in New Jersey and promote opportunities to expand and diversify the midwifery workforce.
Early Relational Health Report
The Burke Foundation is commissioning an Early Relational Health (ERH) field scan led by Dr. Junlei Li, Ph.D., Thelma Ramirez, M.Ed, and other researchers from the Developmental Relationships Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
The field scan will explore emerging research related to ERH, identify principles that make ERH interventions effective for children and families, and propose recommendations to integrate ERH to a range of community programs and system improvement efforts.
New Jersey ACEs Collaborative
We are committed to preventing, protecting against, and healing from the effects of childhood adversity.