Build, Learn, Grow Stabilization Grants are designed to provide critical funding to early childhood and school-age providers to support their program’s operating expenses across six categories and help rebuild their programs for the future.
Donor Name: Brighter Futures Indiana
State: Indiana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 04/15/2022
Grant Size: $850,000
Details:
Build, Learn, Grow Stabilization Grants are non-competitive and designed to provide short-term funding to early care & education and out-of-school time programs that have faced increased costs and challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing them to stabilize their operations and build capacity for the future. Grants are administered by Indiana’s Office of Early Childhood and Out-of-School Learning (OECOSL) and made possible by funding Indiana received from the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act.
The allowable expense categories include:
- Personnel Costs: Personnel costs include expenses related to hiring, compensating, training or retaining staff.
- Facility Fees, Maintenance and Improvements: Programs may use grant funds for expenses required to pay for, maintain or improve their facilities.
- COVID-19 Safety-Related Needs: Programs may use grant funds to purchase, replenish or update equipment and supplies used in response to COVID-19.
- Goods and Services Necessary to Resume and Strengthen Operations: Programs may use grant funds for expenses that support them in maintaining or resuming full operations, as well as making investments in goods and services that strengthen their programs for the long-term.
- Mental Health Supports for Children and Employees: Programs may use grant funds to support costs related to the mental health and well-being of their children and employees.
- Health and Safety Training: Programs may use grant funds for costs associated with training staff in health and safety measures.
Funding Information
Funding for future grant rounds may vary, and grants for Round 2 are capped at $850,000 per program.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible, early care and education and out-of-school programs must:
- Be a licensed, regulated or registered child care program as defined in IC12-17.2-4; 12- 17.2-5; 12-17.2-3.5; 12-172-6 that was licensed by March 11, 2021, if not active in the CCDF program OR licensed by Jan. 14, 2022, if active in the CCDF program.
- Meet applicable state and local health and safety requirements at the time of application including the completion of comprehensive background checks.
- Be open and currently serving children on the date of application (Please note that temporary closures of 14 days or less due to COVID-19 exposure do not apply.)
- Be in good standing with Indiana’s regulations for licensed or registered care. To be considered in good standing for the purposes of this grant, a program must be compliant with current regulations and may not be in an active repayment process or the subject of an active investigation or enforcement action by OECOSL.
- NOT be a current Head Start or Early Head Start grant recipient. (Child Care Partnerships may apply for a Build, Learn, Grow Stabilization Grant for portions of their enrollment not supported by Head Start or Early Head Start funding.)
For more information, visit Brighter Futures Indiana.
