The Escambia Children’s Trust invites local providers of high-quality early learning services to apply for funding to design, implement, and operate a summer bridge program for the children that will be entering kindergarten for the first time.
Donor Name: Escambia Children’s Trust
State: Florida
County: Escambia County (FL)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 06/08/2022
Grant Duration: 3 months
Details:
The goal of the Kindergarten Summer Bridge Program is to introduce children to a formal early education setting to help prepare them for their first day of kindergarten!
Grant Duration
The successful Proposer(s) will be awarded a contract for three (3) months (i.e., July 1, 2022 – September 30, 2022).
Eligibility Criteria
- ECT funds not-for-profit corporations, incorporated organizations, neighborhood organizations, and local government organizations. For-profit organizations may apply for ECT funds so long as the project does not generate a profit for the organization.
- Organizations or programs that operate under the exclusive jurisdiction of the public school system are prohibited from applying for funds directly from ECT.
- Programs requiring worship or religious instructional activities, as a condition of participation, shall not be funded.
- ECT funding shall not supplant existing resources.
- The target population for the purposes of this RFP is limited to Escambia County children who will be entering kindergarten for the first time in August of 2022 and who are unprepared/underprepared for kindergarten; have not previously attended an early learning program or VPK; or have a diagnosed developmental delay (cognitive; sensorimotor; speech and language; and/or social-emotional).
- ECT will not provide funding to organizations for the acquisition of real property.
For more information, visit Escambia Children’s Trust.
