This paper describes the early childhood solutions that the five 2011 Promise Neighborhoods implementation sites put in place in the first year of their five-year grants. Although most of these solutions became operational in the second half of 2012 and thus have not had time to produce data on their outcomes, it is useful to examine the ways in which sites have crafted strategies to help more children aged 0-8 get off to the right start. The Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink (PNI) is documenting the experiences of the five sites so that (1) they can learn from one another's work; (2) planning and new implementation grantees can gain insights that may be useful as they develop their own approaches; and (3) over time, PNI can share the lessons learned about these interventions with the field at large. As part of its cradle-to-career pipeline, each of the five sites is investing in helping families with young children navigate the early years so that children develop physically, emotionally, and cognitively, and are ready for school and on track academically by third grade. This paper describes sites' solutions to achieve those results, with solutions ranging from supporting parents at the time of birth, to early screenings that detect developmental delays so they can be addressed before kindergarten, to efforts to increase the quantity and quality of early learning opportunities. The sites are using a mix of these strategies depending on the context, challenges, and opportunities unique to their neighborhood. At this early stage, it is useful to capture this range of activity. (author abstract)