To help a community pursue and/or implement its idea of how best to create a financing solution for home-based child care providers and others to address lead and other environmental hazards in child care homes, the National Center for Healthy Housing invites communities to apply for a $30,000 grant with the option for additional coaching support.
Donor Name: National Center for Healthy Housing
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/18/2022
Size of the Grant: $30,000
Details:
While projects may benefit a larger population, they must explicitly include and address the needs of home-based child care providers. Projects must also address lead but may also address other environmental hazards. The additional optional coaching support includes access to a network of national experts to assist conceptualizing and/or executing their strategy.
There is great potential to create and improve solutions to deliver financing to home-based child care providers to address lead and other hazards where children learn, play, and reside. With competing needs and priorities, child care providers experience unique challenges in accessing funding specifically for healthy housing needs. Under this proposed work, NCHH and a network of partners will competitively select and support a community in developing or implementing a financing strategy that provides funding directly to providers to address lead or lead and other environmental hazards including but not limited to mold, pests, radon, environmental tobacco smoke, asbestos, and carbon monoxide.
This grant’s purpose is to support effective, innovative, and equitable solutions to improve access to healthy housing funding to child care providers. The goal for this effort is to advance health equity, defined here as when “everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be healthier,” and racial justice, defined here as “dismantling systems that perpetuate racist policies” that have resulted in dramatic health disparities for communities of color.
What are the benefits of being selected?
The community that is selected will receive support to pursue or implement their child care financing strategy. These benefits include but may not be limited to the following:
- Coaching and support: This opportunity includes the option to access coaching and support from national experts at the National Center for Healthy Housing, Children’s Environmental Health Network, and the National Association for Family Child Care.
Funding Information
Grant award: A $30,000 grant award.
Who is eligible?
- Local or regional nonprofit and community-based organizations (includes public health institutes).
- County, local, state, and tribal government agencies.
Organizations must be based in the United States. For-profit organizations are not eligible to apply even if they work at the local level. National organizations are eligible to apply but should be prepared to demonstrate direct impact at the local level.
For more information, visit NCHH.
