The Early Childhood Council Leadership Alliance (ECCLA) is pleased to announce 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: 09/06/2022
Size of the Grant: $5,000
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 homes. This opportunity is intended to help family child care homes start up, expand, or maintain consistent operations, increase capacity and reduce the number of family child care homes closing their doors due to financial restrictions.
The funding priorities for the Family Child Care Home Facilities Improvement Grant include:
- Statewide geographic distribution
- Addressing unmet service gaps, and
- 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.
Eligibility Criteria
- Must be a licensed family child care home.
- Funds must be used to serve children from birth to 5 years old age.
- 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.
- Applications requested $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.
- A child care program may receive only one FCCH Facilities Improvement Grant from ECCLA during a 12-month period.
- 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 home, 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.
