The Child Care Partnership Grants supports community-driven child care solutions by funding collaborative partnerships, increasing organizational capacity development, conducting planning and completing activities that help the community address the shortage of child care.
Donor Name: Washington State Department of Commerce
State: Washington
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/17/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Child Care Partnership Grants (CCPG) will support community-driven planning and action plan implementation to address unique and highest priority child care needs and expand child care capacity.
- Projects must be responsive to local community needs related to the lack of access to affordable and quality child care in a defined community.
- Successful grantees will propose project activities that demonstrate understanding of current community conditions and culture and identify activities to increase child care access and the number of available slots.
- Proposers must define the geographic and demographic communities that the project intends to serve.
- Projects must engage a diverse group of committed community partners to collaboratively plan and execute sustainable, effective initiatives that remove barriers and enhance the capacity to implement solutions.
Projects shall engage multiple community partners including, but not limited to, representatives from the following sectors – as appropriate and available in the community:
- Businesses (employers)
- Child care providers
- Community-based organizations
- Economic development
- Education / Educational Service Districts (ESD)
- Faith based organizations
- Health care / behavioral health
- Higher education
- Local government
- Non-profits
- Parents and caregivers
- Social service agencies
- State agencies
- Statewide child care organizations
- Tribes in Washington
- Youth serving organizations
- Other.
Funding Information
- COMMERCE has budgeted an amount not to exceed $885,000 for this program. There is no minimum award amount.
- For a contract period of July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026 awards will typically range from $30,000 up to $70,000, depending on the proposed activities and budget.
Grant Period
Proposals may be submitted with appropriate activities, project plan and budget for 12 months (July 1, 2025-June 30, 2026).
Allowable Activities
Child care slots shall be increased within one year of CCPG investment. The following allowable activities must include multiple community partners:
- Community coalition development and coordination
- Community engagement
- Needs assessments
- Data analysis
- Fundraising plans
- Child care provider recruitment
- Home-based provider and child care center retention
- Marketing plans and messaging
- Strategic action plan development
- Early learning/child care workforce development plans
- Pre-design studies (such as feasibility studies, schematics, and appraisals)
- Other activities that help communities address the shortage of child care (that are not ineligible/unallowable).
Eligibility Criteria
- Proposers must meet all of the following minimum qualifications to be eligible for this grant:
- Licensed to do business in the state of Washington;
- Populations served must be located in the state of Washington;
- Must be headquartered in the state of Washington; AND
- Meets one of the following entity designations.
- Federally recognized tribes in Washington;
- Local government entity;
- Nonprofit organization registered with the Washington Secretary of State as a nonprofit corporation and having a 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(6) status with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS);
- Public agency;
- School district; or
- Educational Service District (ESD).
- This is a competitive process, and not all applications will be selected. Proposals that do not clearly meet or exceed all minimum qualifications listed above will be considered non-responsive and will not be evaluated.
For more information, visit WSDC.
