The Northwest Minnesota Foundation is now accepting applications from agencies and organizations in support of early childhood educational programming.
Donor Name: Northwest Minnesota Foundation
State: Minnesota
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/28/2023
Size of the Grant: $50,000
Details:
Child Care professionals, educators, and organizations that address local needs to support early childhood programming that benefits children adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and supplies them with the necessary continuity of service to maintain their operations will be considered.
Northwest Minnesota Foundation has been aggressively bolstering and improving the opportunities for child care professionals to be successful. Many challenges over the past few years, including the COVID 19 pandemic, have increased the need to lend supportive services to child care providers and early educators as they make up the backbone of their economic success within their rural communities.
Northwest Minnesota Foundation leads and supports collaborative efforts throughout their region to find innovative, sustainable solutions to help solve the unique concerns for the young children and families who are an important part of their community. As their region continues to recover from the COVID 19 pandemic, they will assist early educators with financial and capital needs through flexible grant products. Better lives are built when their children are provided quality care and the educational opportunities they need for age appropriate development.
The goal of the foundation is to help develop a plan that meets the needs of developing children. They are supporting early care and childhood education programs for carrying out these learning and supportive wrap-around services for their region’s young children and their families.
Priority Areas
Child Care professionals, educators, and organizations that address local needs to support early childhood programming that benefits children adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and supplies them with the necessary continuity of service to maintain their operations will be considered.
This is a competitive process and proposals must serve one or more of the following priorities:
- Mental health services and supports
- Social-emotional and physical health supports
- Training and development to more effectively operate
- Learning enrichment programs
- Distance learning opportunities and capabilities
- Activities that are necessary to maintain the operation of and continuity of services in early care and education prioritizing the needs of historically underserved group
Funding Information
A total of $104,000 will be available for this round of grant funding, with awards not exceeding $50,000 per grant.
Eligible expenses include:
- Providing mental health services and supports/social and emotional support
- Training so staff can more effectively operate
- Learning enrichment programs
- Curriculum
Eligible Applicants / Geography
Governmental, nonprofit, or for-profit entities that provide early education wrap-around services (from birth to age 8) in the NMF service area, which includes Red Lake Nation, White Earth Nation, and 12 counties (Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake Falls, and Roseau).
For more information, visit Child Care Grants.
