The Office of Early Childhood Development within the Administration for Children and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services jointly with the Department of Education is seeking 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
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/31/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The PDG B-5 Renewal Grant will fund states to build upon their initial grant activities, while considering the changing needs of children and families created by the COVID 19 Pandemic, and investing in strategies that will address those needs, supporting and strengthening the early childhood care and education (ECCE) workforce, enhancing quality, and expanding access to early childhood services for children, particularly those in high need communities. Recipients of PDG B-5 Renewal Grant funding are encouraged to use a certain portion of grant funds to award subgrants to ECE programs, to expand access to and enhance the quality of existing services or develop new programs that address the needs of low-income and disadvantaged young children and families in the mixed delivery system across the state.
The Renewal Grant award provides funding to:
- Strengthen early care and education (ECE) programs in a mixed delivery system.
- Support the ECE workforce.
- Increase equity and family involvement in ECE programs.
- Improve ECE program quality.
- Expand access to early childhood services.
- Create seamless learning experiences from birth to elementary school.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $85,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $11 million
- Award Floor: $500,000
Project Period
36 months
Eligibility Criteria
These entities may apply:
- The 21 states that received a PDG B-5 Planning Grant in December 2022 but do not have a renewal grant, along with the one state, one district, and two territories that received an initial grant in 2018 but did not receive a renewal grant Alabama, California, Colorado, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, U.S. Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia
- The governor of the state must identify the state entity that will apply for funding and have the responsibility to administer and carry out the project.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
