It has been announced that The LEGO Foundation has launched a $143 million global competition to address early years development. This is the largest public grant that LEGO has provided which goes towards helping challenges that younger kids face. Some of these challenges include lost of access to services and support spurred on by the global pandemic.

Grants will be awarded to those exploring evidence-based innovative solutions to the biggest problems of today such as access to quality early childhood education and care, adequate nutrition, eradication of toxic stress in homes and communities, reduction of violence in homes and communities, protection from pollution, and supporting the social and emotional well-being of the whole family.

The LEGO Foundation launches USD 143 million global competition to tackle early years development

• Chief Executive Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen calls for urgent attention around young children amid global early childhood emergency, threatening future generations
• Biggest public grant of USD 143 million ever provided by The LEGO Foundation
• Global competition launched in the LEGO® brand’s 90th year seeks transformational ideas to help solve the biggest global challenges facing birth to six-year-olds

The LEGO Foundation has announced a USD 143 million global challenge to fund bold and impactful solutions focused on early childhood in what CEO, Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen says will address a “global early childhood emergency”, one that is characterised by a loss of access to services and support, exacerbated by the global pandemic.

Launched by The LEGO Foundation, the Build A World of Play Challenge will enable any organisations who can