Engage Your Community One Text at a Time

Improve Outcomes

By collaborating with pediatricians, researchers and childhood experts, we deliver timely, evidence-based content to families that has been shown to improve confidence, competence, and connections.

Expand Your Reach

Lantern reaches over half a million families nationwide, offering an equitable way to connect with them. Since most adults own a mobile phone, text messaging is accessible and effective for delivering critical information to parents and caregivers, regardless of their economic background.

Share Vital Resources

Directly reach families to enhance their knowledge of local resources and events. We help you send targeted, timely messages straight to families, empowering them with the information they need to thrive.

What Our Partners Say

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Who Do We Partner With?

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Local and State Agencies

Engaging Your Community is Simple Schedule a call to find out how Lantern can help you reach the families in your community.
Schedule Customize and Schedule Your Messages Our team delivers expert guidance on how to craft effective communication in 140 characters or less. Each message can be customized to a family’s location and age of child, and scheduled in a timely fashion. Learn More See your impact We track the number of messages sent, click through rates in all languages, URL views, and survey data. Your board and funders will want to know how Lantern helps! Our Impact

Bright Moments

“Lantern supports our public awareness and community outreach strategies. Remember, we understand that kids don’t come with instructions. That’s why Lantern sends the info caregivers need most for raising little ones, from pregnancy through age 8.”
“We use Lantern to directly reach families in Greater New Bedford with localized, critical information related to housing and food insecurity, as well as resources like parenting classes, outdoor activities and preschool open enrollment periods.”
“Lantern is different - it isn't an overwhelming amount of information - it is short messages right when you need them most. We have signed up over 1,000 families and very few of them stop the service.”
“Lantern works with the Texas TV stations to make sure that we get the data we need to better understand this tool, how it’s being used and how it can help families.”

Mario Basora

CEO, Future Ready of Columbus Ohio, Columbus OH

Michelle N. Hantman

President & CEO, United Way of Greater New Bedford, New Bedford MA

Liz Isakson

MD, FAA, Executive Director, Docs for Tots, Long Island NY

Kierstan Schwab

Texas PBS Executive Director, Austin TX