The Early Childhood Council Leadership Alliance is seeking applications for its Family Child Care Home Facilities Improvement Grant.
Donor Name: Early Childhood Council Leadership Alliance
State: Colorado
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/09/2023
Size of the Grant: $5,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
To address the declining number of licensed slots within family child care homes and to improve quality within home-based learning environments, the Buell Foundation, along with the Daniels Fund, granted funds to the Early Childhood Council Leadership Alliance (ECCLA) to provide facility improvement funding to family child care businesses. This opportunity is intended to help family child care businesses start up, expand, or maintain consistent operations, increase capacity, and reduce the number of home-based early learning programs closing their doors due to financial restrictions.
The Early Childhood Council Leadership Alliance (ECCLA) is an equal opportunity grant provider. They do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, military status, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression in any of its activities or operations.
Funding Priorities
- The funding priorities for the Family Child Care Home Facilities Improvement Grant include:
- Statewide geographic distribution
- Address unmet service gaps such as child care deserts or serving vulnerable families
- Increasing capacity and access to family child care home programs.
- Priority will be given to applicants that serve vulnerable families and children.
Funding Information
- The maximum amount requested is $5,000.
- A child care program may receive only one FCCH Facilities Improvement Grant from ECCLA during a 12-month period.
Eligibility Requirements
- Must be a licensed home-based child care program.
- Funds must be used to serve children from birth to 5 years old.
- Funds must be utilized to address health, safety, or licensing issues through physical improvement to a facility’s learning environments or maintain or increase capacity.
- Funds cannot be used for the retirement of debt, salaries, or consultants and cannot be used as a reimbursement. If you complete the project before being awarded the grant, grant funds cannot be used as a reimbursement for the project.
- Applications that request $2,500 or more must own the facility or provide a letter of landlord support.
- Applicant must complete all fields of application and submit all required supporting documentation including ‘before’ photos.
- Applicant must submit a six-month progress report and a 12-month completion report that includes ‘after’ photos of the funded project.
- Applicant must submit copies of at least two bids for the project. If your project does not require bids, you will need to attach pictures of what you wish to purchase.
- If opening a new family child care business, must be in the pre-licensing stage or completed pre-licensing.
- If an application is not selected, the applicant may resubmit in the next round.
For more information, visit ECCLA.
