Celebrating early childhood education across our community!

Honoring Our Early Childhood Champions
CORE Network believes that early childhood educators should be celebrated and honored in every early education setting where they work to support young children and their families. The Ignite! Early Childhood Champion Awards honor our community’s early childhood educators and legislative champions, highlights their important work, and encourages community engagement in early childhood education.

The 2026 awards ceremony will take place on Tuesday, July 21st. We are excited to shine a spotlight on the incredible educators shaping the future of our youngest learners! For questions, please contact CORE Network at corenetwork@unitedwaygn.org.

Thank you to PNC for generously supporting the 2025 Ignite! Awards and Ignite! Early Childhood Education Conference. Their commitment to early childhood education inspires great futures for children.