Marti Beard

Marti Beard is the vice president of early childhood/Communities for Kids at the Nebraska Children and Families Foundation. Before coming to the foundation, she worked in child welfare programs, seeing firsthand the difference that a good beginning makes for children. She developed the Communities for Kids initiative model starting from one community five years ago to more than 50 today, working with local communities to find the right-sized solution for child care capacity and quality efforts. Beard has been very involved at the local, state, and national level in advocacy efforts for children and families.