SC FIRST STEPS - Key Persons
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- Communications Coordinator
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- Manager
- 4K Fiscal Manager
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- Executive Director
- Executive Director of South Carolina First Steps
Ann Vandervliet is the executive director of South Carolina First Steps, a state agency and nonprofit committed to ensuring that all of South Carolina's children are prepared for success in school. As the leader of the state's Early Childhood Advisory Council, Ann is also strengthening the public, private, and nonprofit systems that support families and young children from birth to age five.
With nearly 30 years of experience in nonprofit management and systems development, Ann has a proven track record of raising and strategically directing significant public and private funding to enhance early childhood care and education.
Most recently, she led the Guilford County Partnership for Children, part of North Carolina's nationally recognized Smart Start network. In this role, Ann led efforts to stabilize the childcare workforce by reinstating WAGE$ in Guilford County, a critical salary supplement program. She also facilitated agreements to braid funds between multiple organizations to address credentialing challenges resulting from new state mandates.
Previously, as the founding director of Smart Beginnings (now the Center for Early Success) in Southside Virginia, Ann secured the largest private investment in school readiness in Virginia at that time. Under her leadership, local performance on the state's pre-literacy assessment improved by 50% over a three-year period and remained stable over the next seven years.
As a program officer for the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation, she built the initial operating infrastructure for Smart Beginnings coalitions across 22 cities and counties. Ann has also held leadership positions with Nash-Rocky Mount Schools and Easter Seals South Carolina. Since 2017, she has taught nonprofit financial leadership and social enterprise at Duke University.
Ann has chaired the Danville Public Schools Foundation Board, served as a delegate to Virginia's Early Childhood Advisory Council, and facilitated the Federal Reserve of Virginia's Regional School Readiness Roundtable. She was also selected as a representative for the Frontiers of Innovation Learning Community at Harvard University's Center on the Developing Child.
Ann holds a bachelor's degree in international studies from the University of South Carolina.
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- 4K Eligibility Specialist
- Specialist
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- 4K Materials Management Coordinator
- Materials Management Coordinator
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- 4K Eligibility Specialist
- Specialist
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- Director of Grantmaking and Development
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- Administrative Coordinator
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- Child Care Quality Coordinator
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- Evaluation Student Assistant
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- Chief of Strategy and Research
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- Parenting Program Coordinator
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- 4K Eligibility Specialist
- Specialist
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Department of Disabilities
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- 4K Administrative Team Lead
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Chairman, Governor 's Designee
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- Parenting Program Coordinator
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- Chief Partnership Officer
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- 4K Eligibility Specialist
- Specialist
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Department of Health
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- Parenting Program Manager
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- Local Partnerships Operations Team Intern
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- Accounts Payable Coordinator
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- HIPPY Programming Assistant
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Business Community
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Business Community
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- First Five Outreach Manager
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- School Transition Coordinator
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- Parenting Program Coordinator
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- Government Affairs Liaison
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- Early Childhood Advisory Council Program Manager
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- Early Care and Education Program Manager
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- Administrative Coordinator
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- 4K Language and Literacy Coach
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- Coordinator
- Evaluation Coordinator
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- Director of Administration
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- 4K State Director
- State Director
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Head Start Collaboration Office, Director
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Department of Education
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- 4K Data Coordinator
- Data Coordinator
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- Generation Systems Manager
- Two - Generation Systems Manager
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- Local Partnership Fiscal Director
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- Public Engagement Coordinator
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- Local Partnership Fiscal Analyst
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Children 's Trust of SC, Chief Executive Officer
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- Countdown to Kindergarten Intern
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Department of Social Services
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- Program Coordinator
- AmeriCorps Program Coordinator
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- Member of the Board of Trustees