The Women’s Business Development Council is offering grants of up to $25,000 to qualified Connecticut child care businesses in need of emergency facilities funding.
Donor Name: Women’s Business Development Council
State: Connecticut
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/01/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $25,000
Details:
This grant program is designed to help licensed child care providers suffering severe revenue shortages cover emergency facilities maintenance projects to keep their business open and operating safely. Grants of up to $25,000 will be awarded to providers that can demonstrate a financial need, are committed to remaining in business, and cannot cover expenses requested in application through business income, savings, or remaining OEC Stabilization Funding (if awarded).
Eligible programs include licensed centers, group, and family child care homes. The emergency facilities grant is designed to help cover urgent facilities maintenance for programs suffering severe revenue shortages and in need of financial support.
Funding Information
This Emergency Facilities Grant is for urgent facilities maintenance projects only, for those programs with unmet financial need due to severe revenue shortages. Funds may be used for emergency facilities expenses only and may include:
- Expenses to correct an OEC licensing citation of emergency status (i.e., preventing a classroom from being used)
- Health Department or Fire Department finding impacting the program’s ability to operate fully
- Emergency facility expense impacting the program’s ability to operate or meet basic health and safety (i.e., storm damage to facility, boiler repair, etc.)
- Reimbursement of required (non-elective) facilities upgrades made in the last 6 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Be in business as an OEC-licensed family home, group, or center with enrolled children for at least 6 months at time of application
- Meet ONE of the following enrollment criteria:
- Have a minimum of 60% of licensed capacity currently enrolled, including school age children OR
- Current enrollment is 40%-59% of licensed capacity AND enrollment in Jan 2020 was 60% or higher of licensed capacity OR
- Current enrollment at 60% of adjusted licensed capacity based on business model (For instance, a Family Home with licensed capacity of 9 that never takes school-age children would calculate their enrollment based on 6 regular age – e.g., 4 currently enrolled / 6 adjusted capacity = 67% enrollment) OR
- Current enrollment down to 40%-59% with classroom closing or staff layoff due to OEC, Health Department, or Fire Department finding
- Profitable in at least 1 of the past 4 years; or broke even as a non-profit in one of these years
- Be in good standing with the CT Department of Revenue Services (DRS) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), or on a payment plan for back-owed taxes
- Have an urgent financial need, and unable to cover emergency facilities expenses from income or savings.
- Priority Applicants
- If there are more qualified applications than we can fund this round, priority will be given to the following programs:
- Serve infants and toddlers
- Currently receive Care4Kids
- NAFCC or NAEYC Accredited, or Head Start Approved
- State and/or federally funded (i.e., Care4Kids, School Readiness, Child Day Care
- Contract, State Head Start, Federal Head Start, and DCF)
- For-profit programs that operate full-time.
For more information, visit WBDC.
