The Child Care Connections (CCC) is a nonprofit Child Care Resource and Referral Agency (CCR&R) administering Summer Care Grants on behalf of MT’s Early Childhood and Family Support Division (ECFSD).
Donor Name: Child Care Connections
State: Montana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Scholarship
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 06/03/2022
Grant Size: $1,500 or $2,500
Details:
For working families of elementary-age children entering and registered for Kindergarten through 5th grade in the Fall of 2022, these grants help cover costs of out-of-school programming, camps, and child care for the summer months.
ECFSD anticipates a total of 3,200 scholarships to be awarded across the state of Montana.
Funding Information
Scholarships are limited, one-time grants, for $1,500 or $2,500 per eligible child based on a family’s summer care costs.
Eligible care examples:
- Summer camps
- Licensed Child Care
- In-Your-Home Care (ie: nanny, babysitter, etc.) Caregiver must be 16 years old +
- Expenses around care (ie: lunch for camps, transportation/gas, necessary items for care experience items like a new swimsuit or art supplies, etc.)
- Not eligible: Care provided by siblings
Eligibility Criteria
- Parents must be employed and be able to provide documentation of summer care arrangements to be considered eligible. This can be a printed enrollment form, a letter from the caregiver or program, a receipt from the program, or similar documentation.
- There are no income limits or income requirements.
- For the care of children entering and registered for grades K – 5 in the Fall of 2022.
- For care during the summer months of June, July, and August 2022.
- Care for children receiving the Best Beginnings Child Care Scholarship is not eligible for this funding.
For more information, visit Child Care Connections.
