The Wisconsin Department of Children and Families is accepting applications for its Partner Up! Grant Program.
Donor Name: Wisconsin Department of Children and Families
State: Wisconsin
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 04/04/2022
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The Partner Up! grant program will provide $10 million in funding to support partnerships between businesses who purchase slots at existing regulated child care providers. The funding will be awarded based on existing community child care needs throughout Wisconsin. The funding from this program can be used to increase staff compensation, pay expenses, reserve child care slots for local business employees, improve the quality of a child care program, and more.
Priority Consideration
For child care providers, priority will be given to:
- Providers who are regulated and in good standing with DCF
- Providers who maintain attendance records in compliance with child care licensing requirements
- Providers located in child care deserts
For all other businesses, priority will be given to:
- Small businesses
- Women, minority, or veteran-owned businesses
- Businesses contracting:
- Slots for a higher percentage of their total employees
- Longer-termed contracts
- Slots for children under 2 years old
- A higher percentage of full-time slots than part-time slots
- Slots at 2 and 3 Star providers and providers who don’t participate in YoungStar
- Businesses willing to contribute more than 25% of the monthly true cost of care
- Businesses that are contracting slots for third shift employees (as long as there are third shift child care providers available to be matched with)
- Businesses that are working with other businesses in some type of cooperative or consortium to provide child care slots for multiple businesses
NOTE: They are not prioritizing entities that received DWD Workforce Innovation Grant funds.
Grant Period
The contracts for slots may be for a maximum of 12 months, with the possibility of a renewal year.
Eligibility Criteria
- Businesses
- Child care providers who want to help sponsor the cost of their employees’ child care
For more information, visit Partner Up! Grant Program.
