The Iowa Women’s Foundation is inviting applications for its Child Care Solutions Fund to improve the lives of Iowa’s women and girls through economic self-sufficiency and specifically by improving the availability of, and access to, quality affordable child care in Iowa.
Donor Name: Iowa Women’s Foundation
State: Iowa
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/28/2023
Details:
The CCSF focuses on increasing women’s economic security through access to quality, affordable child care.
Grant Priorities
- Economic self-sufficiency for all of Iowa’s women and girls is central to the mission of the Iowa Women’s Foundation and to this grant programs
- The CCSF is a “field of interest” fund for grant making and action hosted by the Iowa Women’s Foundation. In particular, this fund is designated to improve the lives of Iowa’s women and girls through financial independence, specifically by improving the availability of, and access to, quality, affordable child care in Iowa. The funds in the CCSF are invested in organizations and institutions focused on innovative and sustainable strategies/solutions ensuring access to affordable, quality child care that decreases the work force gap and ultimately increases women’s economic security across Iowa
- The IWF uses research to identify the biggest barriers to women’s success as well as their greatest needs and encourages others, including potential grantees, to do the same
- The IWF looks to communities across Iowa to help us better understand the barriers impacting women and girls’ economic security.
Eligibility Criteria
- All potential programs must be or plan to be a registered child development home, licensed child care center or preschool, or a Department of Education preschool. You must provide a certificate of registration or license with your LOI. All programs must work to increase the availability of quality, affordable child care in the state of Iowa
- Ideal partners for the CCSF include, but are not limited to, non-profit organizations, for-profit institutions, community partners, and entrepreneurs that are serious about creating and sustaining solutions for quality affordable child care in their areas. Unlike the IWF’s Core grant making, this fund can be used to support community-based solutions such as: building and expanding a child care center, maintaining and increasing child care entrepreneurs, establishing before and after school programs, innovatively addressing child care for 2nd and 3rd shift workers and creating businesses and child care partnerships.
For more information, visit IWF.
