The Women’s Business Development Council is offering grants to qualified Connecticut child care businesses in need of emergency facilities funding.
Donor Name: Women’s Business Development Council
State: Connecticut
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/15/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
This grant program is designed to help licensed child care providers (centers, group, and family homes) cover emergency facilities repair projects to keep their business open and operating safely.
Funding Information
Grants of up to $15,000 will be awarded to providers that can demonstrate an urgent need, are committed to remaining in business, and cannot cover expenses requested in application through business income or savings.
Uses of funds
This Emergency Facilities Grant is for urgent facilities repair projects only, for those programs with unmet financial need due to significant revenue shortages. Funds may be used for emergency facilities expenses only and may include:
- Expenses to correct an OEC licensing citation of emergency status (i.e., preventing a classroom from being used)
- Health Department or Fire Department finding impacting the program’s ability to operate fully
- Emergency facility expense impacting the program’s ability to operate or meet basic health and safety (i.e., storm damage to facility, boiler repair, etc.)
- Reimbursement of required (non-elective) facilities upgrades made in the last 6 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Those that meet all of the following criteria are encouraged to apply:
- Be in business full-time as an OEC-licensed family home, group, or center with enrolled children for at least 6 months at time of application
- Meet ONE of the following enrollment criteria:
- Have a minimum of 60% of licensed capacity currently enrolled, including school age children OR
- Current enrollment at 60% of adjusted licensed capacity based on business model OR
- (For instance, a Family Home with licensed capacity of 9 that never takes school-age children would calculate their enrollment based on 6 regular age – e.g., 4 currently enrolled / 6 adjusted capacity = 67% enrollment)
- Current enrollment down to 40%-59% with classroom closing or staff layoff due to OEC, Health Department, or Fire Department finding
- Profitable in at least 1 of the past 3 years; or broke even as a non-profit in one of these years
- Be in good standing with the CT Department of Revenue Services (DRS), or on a payment plan for back-owed taxes
- Have an urgent financial need, and unable to cover emergency facilities expenses from income or savings.
- For purposes of the WBDC’s Child Care Business Opportunity Fund grants, the definitions of full-time and part-time are as follows:
- Full-time for centers (DCCC), group homes (DCGH) programs means that 75% or more of the classrooms in your program operate 30 hours or more per week.
- Full-time for family child care homes means that your program operates 30 hours or more per week.
- Part-time for centers (DCCC), group homes (DCGH) programs means that less than 75% of the classrooms in your program operate 30 hours or more per week.
- Part-time for family child care homes means that your program is open less than 30 hours per week.
For more information, visit WBDC.
