The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is soliciting applications for a 5-year cooperative agreement that will fund a Center to Support Research and Evaluation Capacity of Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agencies.
Donor Name: Administration for Children and Families
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/26/2022
Size of the Grant: $1,500,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) is a multibillion-dollar federal and state partnership administered by the Office of Child Care (OCC) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) dedicated to providing access to affordable, high-quality child care to low-income working families. As a block grant, CCDF gives funding to states, territories, and tribes to provide child care subsidies through grants and contracts with providers, as well as vouchers or certificates to low-income families. CCDF improves the quality of care to promote children’s healthy development and learning by supporting child care licensing and quality improvement systems to help programs meet higher standards and by supporting child care professionals to attain more training and education.
To facilitate CCDF services, OCC establishes and oversees the implementation of child care policies and provides guidance and technical assistance to states, territories, and tribal governments as they administer CCDF programs. OCC has also taken a lead role in supporting state early childhood care and education systems to help ensure that children receive quality care in order to support their healthy development and school success and that comprehensive services are made available for families in need. OCC has created strategic partnerships with states to improve early childhood programs through a significant infusion of guidance, training, and technical assistance to promote the development of early learning guidelines, professional development plans, development and implementation of quality rating and improvement systems, and coordination across early childhood programs.
Grant Program Goals
The Center will pursue three key goals:
- Building Research and Evaluation Capacity among ACF-Sponsored Research Partnerships: Strengthen capacity among child care policy research partnerships and other OPRE-sponsored research projects to conduct rigorous research and evaluations of child care and early education policies by supporting communication, shared learning and coordination across sponsored research projects.
- Communicating Research: Share knowledge gained from sponsored research projects and translate insights and best practices in data, research, and evaluation through a variety of products and resources for the field.
- Advancing Research: Generate knowledge for the field by synthesizing evidence and analyzing data and information.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $1,500,000
- Award Floor: $1,000,000
- Length of Project Periods: 60-month project period with five 12-month budget periods
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- State governments
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Special district governments
- Independent school districts
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Others
- County governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
- Small businesses
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
