The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) jointly with the Department of Education (ED) is soliciting applications from eligible States and Territories to carry out the renewal grant activities of the Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5).
Donor Name: Administration for Children and Families – OCC
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, and U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/07/2022
Size of the Grant: $16,000,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
The PDG B-5 Renewal Grants seek to empower state governments to lead the way in leveraging federal, state, and local early care and education investments while developing and improving their comprehensive, statewide birth through five early childhood care and education system.
These Renewal Grants seek to assist states in helping low-income and disadvantaged children enter kindergarten prepared and ready to succeed. In addition, these grants will help improve the transitions between early care and education settings and elementary schools. The overall responsibility of the PDG B-5 Renewal Grant is to assist states in the coordination of existing early childhood funding streams resulting in services being provided to more children birth through five in a mixed delivery system.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $16,000,000
- Award Floor: $500,000
- Length of Project Periods: 36 months
Eligibility Criteria
- The following 25 states or territories are eligible to apply for funding under this funding opportunity: Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Indiana, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, and Vermont.
- The applicant must submit a letter on the Governor’s letterhead, designating the state entity that will have responsibility for execution and administration of this grant. The required letter must include a description of why the state entity chosen is best suited to manage the grant, thereby leading to the improvement of an ECCE mixed delivery system serving children from birth through age 5.
- For this Renewal Grant, any state entity that is not also a state agency must be replaced by a state agency as the recipient of the federal funds. If desired by the Governor, the state agency may then subgrant with the existing state entity that previously served as the recipient of the funds for the PDG B-5 Initial Grant, or may subgrant with a different entity.
- State governments.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
