The Mixed Delivery Preschool Pilot Program was created in response to the recognition that local community innovation can shed light on building a more robust system of delivery that will benefit families with young children across the state. The pilot program was developed to be an innovative grant program that provides the opportunity for the state to explore locally driven lessons about how to maximize the use of public pre-K investments. To that end, the pilot program awarded grants to local communities throughout Virginia to test replicable innovative strategies to increase the number of publicly funded pre-K slots in private child care centers. As a key part of this initiative, a rigorous evaluation of Cohorts 1 (Mixed Delivery grantees in 2016-17) and 2 (Mixed Delivery grantees in 2017-18) was conducted to examine the implementation and outcomes of the program. (author abstract)