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Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3) Grants is a program from the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care that provides monthly operational funding to stabilize licensed child care providers across the state. The C3 program helps eligible child care centers and family child care homes sustain quality programming by offsetting operational costs.
Funded at $475 million in FY25, the program is essential to maintaining Massachusetts's early education and care infrastructure. Eligible providers include EEC-licensed child care facilities willing to accept children served by state vouchers or offering equivalent services.
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Support for Implementation of Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3) Formula ELEMENT--> ELEMENT--> ELEMENT--> ELEMENT--> ELEMENT--> ELEMENT--> ELEMENT--> ELEMENT--> ELEMENT--> Post-Pandemic FCC Providers: A Study C3 Operational Grant Support EECC Inter-Agency Task Force Post-Pandemic FCC Providers: A Study C3 Operational Grant Support EECC Inter-Agency Task Force Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3) Support Stabilizing early education and child care providers The Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3) grants program has become essential to stabilizing and strengthening Massachusetts’ early education and care system.
By providing predictable, monthly operational funding, C3 helps child care programs cover core costs like staff wages, benefits, rent, and supplies. This support has not only prevented widespread closures, helped retain and recruit educators, and preserved access to care for families across the Commonwealth, it has helped to expand access, with a 5% increase in licensed programs from 2020 to early 2025 (Source) .
Without C3, many providers would not be able to remain open, putting child care supply, workforce stability, and family economic participation at risk How We’re Driving Change MA ECFC funders supported Third Sector Capital Partners to provide guidance to the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) on the design and implementation of the C3 grants.
EEC’s partnership with Third Sector Capital Partners began in the second half of 2020. MA ECFC funders supported Third Sector’s work during Phase 5, which ran from September 2022 through January 2023. C3 is now fully managed internally by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care.
Launched during the pandemic, C3 was designed as a sector-wide stabilization strategy, offering non-competitive operational grants to eligible family child care providers and centers statewide. The program quickly became a backbone of the early childhood system, with providers using funds primarily to support workforce compensation and essential operating costs.
Massachusetts extended C3 beyond initial funding through the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), signaling a long-term commitment to early education and care as essential infrastructure. Data consistently show that C3 plays a critical role in sustaining child care supply, supporting educators, and ensuring families can access care. Resources and Key Documents Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3) Grants (Mass.
gov) Importance of C3 Continuation for the Commonwealth (Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation) Key Takeaways from Importance of C3 Continuation for the Commonwealth Current Status and What’s Next Status: Project support complete; C3 funding has now been incorporated into the state budget. Massachusetts Early Childhood Funder Collaborative is fiscally sponsored by Philanthropy Massachusetts
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: EEC-licensed child care providers (centers and family child care homes) willing to accept children with vouchers or offering equivalent services Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
Current published award information indicates FY25 funded at $475 million total; individual amounts vary Always verify allowable costs, matching requirements, and funding caps directly in the sponsor documentation.
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Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education & Human Resources (IUSE: EHR) Program is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). This program promotes novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. It supports projects that bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices, and lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. Professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques is a potential topic of interest.
The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance practice and strengthen library and archival services for the American public. Successful proposals will generate results such as new models, tools, research findings, services, practices, and/or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend and leverage the benefits of federal investment. Applications to IMLS should both advance knowledge and understanding and ensure that the federal investment made generates benefits to society. Specifically, the goals for this program are to generate projects of far-reaching impact that: • Build the workforce and institutional capacity for managing the national information infrastructure and serving the information and education needs of the public. • Build the capacity of libraries and archives to lead and contribute to efforts that improve community well-being and strengthen civic engagement. • Improve the ability of libraries and archives to provide broad access to and use of information and collections with emphasis on collaboration to avoid duplication and maximize reach. • Strengthen the ability of libraries to provide services to affected communities in the event of an emergency or disaster. • Strengthen the ability of libraries, archives, and museums to work collaboratively for the benefit of the communities they serve. Throughout its work, IMLS places importance on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This may be reflected in an IMLS-funded project in a wide range of ways, including efforts to serve individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; individuals with disabilities; individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills; individuals having difficulty using a library or museum; and underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families with incomes below the poverty line. Application Process: The application process for the NLG-L program has two phases; applicants must begin by applying for Phase I. For Phase I, all applicants must submit Preliminary Proposals by the September 20th deadline listed for this Notice of Funding Opportunity. For Phase II, only selected applicants will be invited to submit Full Proposals, and only those Invited Full Proposals will be considered for funding. Invited Full Proposals will be due March 20, 2024. Funding Opportunity Number: NLG-LIBRARIES-FY24. Assistance Listing: 45.312. Funding Instrument: G. Category: AR,HU. Award Amount: $50K – $1M per award.
The California Department of Education (CDE) Early Education Division is making approximately .7 million available to expand California State Preschool Program (CSPP) services statewide, appropriated under the 2021 Budget Act. Eligible applicants are local educational agencies (LEAs), including school districts, county offices of education, community college districts, and direct-funded charter schools—both current CSPP contractors and new applicants. Funding supports full-day/full-year or part-day/part-year preschool services for income-eligible children beginning in FY 2024–25. Awards are allocated by county based on Local Planning Council priority areas and application scores, with redistribution provisions if county allocations are underutilized.