Are you almost a Connecticut licensed child care provider with the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood (OEC), or have you recently become licensed with OEC? Are you in need of funding to help cover some of your start-up operating costs? Then this WBDC Start-Up Grant may be right for you!
Donor Name: Women’s Business Development Council
State: Connecticut
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/31/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Women’s Business Development Council is offering grants of up to $25,000 to qualified child care start-up businesses in Connecticut. This grant program is designed to support aspiring, unlicensed, and newly licensed child care providers in need of financial assistance to cover start-up operating expenses. It is open to those in process of becoming a licensed and operating family home (DCFH), group home (DCGH), or child care center (DCCC), and those operating as a family home, group home, or center with enrolled children for less than one year.
Eligibility Criteria
- Be one of the following:
- Close to becoming licensed by OEC as a full-time family home, group home, or center with location approved by CT Department of Public Health
- Operating as an CT Office of Early Childhood (OEC) licensed family home, group, or center full time, with enrolled children for less than one year
- Be pursuing a license or recently licensed as a provider with OEC for the first time
- Have your initial OEC site inspection scheduled or completed
- Be in good standing with the CT Department of Revenue Services (DRS), or on a payment plan for back-owed taxes
- Have a financial need for support with start-up costs
If there are more qualified applications than can fund this round, priority will be given to the following programs:
- Sites already approved by OEC, including those newly operating
- Located in an ECE underserved community, including those in a town with high SVI (=/> .6) and/or CAATI score =/> 5
- Serve or will serve infants and toddlers
- Accept or plan to accept Care4Kids
- Are or soon plan to be state and/or federally funded (i.e., Care4Kids, School Readiness, Child Day Care Contract, State Head Start, Federal Head Start, and DCF)
- Are or plan to be a for-profit business
- Active WBDC advising client, receiving technical assistance beyond grants.
For more information, visit WBDC.
