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Find similar grantsRegional Grants (Families First of Minnesota) is sponsored by Families First of Minnesota (via Child Care Aware Grants Program). These competitive grants are offered annually to help licensed, soon-to-be licensed, certified, or license-exempt early childhood programs or providers meet health and safety requirements or enhance their learning environment.
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Regional & Startup Grants - Families First of Minnesota If you are having issues viewing the website, please try a different browser or open the website in an incognito window. The Child Care Aware Grants Program is available to all early childhood programs to help fund supplies, equipment, technology and professional development.
Emergency Grants may also be available year-round to help cover costs associated with emergency situations based on the availability of funding. See guide and application below. Startup Grants are available year-round depending on funding to cover items required to open a child care license and to help cover startup costs.
See guide and application below. Regional Grants are offered annually and are awarded on a competitive basis to qualified child care programs. Grant applications are available September 1 of each year and must be submitted by September 25 for consideration.
Applications are available in your Organization Profile on the Develop website. See guide below. Click here for the complete list of Develop ‘How To’ guides.
Emergency grants are available to assist licensed programs in good standing, who have been affected by an emergency that directly affects their ability to provide care and keep their childcare open due to the emergency. These emergencies include natural disasters such as floods, tornadoes, fires, or weather-related damage not covered by homeowners or business insurance that will cause the childcare to close.
Emergency grants can also help with the cost of infractions flagged by licensing that will cause the childcare to close if not fixed. Not all items listed in the guide may be covered due to funding limitations, and items asked for must be comparable to the items lost. Paperwork and pictures for proof will be required.
All grants must adhere to requirements as other Child Care Services grants. Emergency Grant Application Guide Emergency Grant Application Startup Grants are now available to recently licensed or soon-to-be licensed programs. Grants may also be available to programs that are expanding their child care license.
Startup grants cover items that are required to open your license including reimbursement for approved required training, Fire Marshal fees, and equipment and materials required to open a child care license. Programs must have had their initial visit with their licensor before submitting an application. Applicants need to attach a letter of recommendation from their licensor with the application.
All items requested should be included in the letter from the licensor (subject to Grant Administrator and Grant Committee approval). If a program is in the process of getting licensed while a Startup Grant is awarded, they must submit a copy of the active license and their Develop KCF Learning Record (showing 12 hours of approved training) before reimbursement will be made.
Startup Grant Application Guide Startup Grant Application Are you looking for grant money to advance your professional development or to help purchase curriculum and assessment tools? Do you need to meet health and safety requirements or enhance your learning environment? These are the types of improvements to child care programs made possible by the Child Care Aware Regional Grants Program.
Regional Grants are available for any early childhood program or provider who is licensed, soon-to-be licensed, certified, or exempt from licensing to apply for each year from September 1-25. Applicants must have an active Develop Membership and registered Organization profile with completed tabs.
If you do not have an active Develop membership and Organization profile, please go to Develop’s Home Page -> How do I… -> and look at the How-To Guides relating to Organizational Profiles. Grantees will be required to complete 12 hours of approved training. The cost of participating in this required training is the grantee’s responsibility.
This expense may be included as part of the grant application. The timeline for completing the training requirement will be outlined in your award letter if you receive this grant. The required training must be approved on Develop.
Four of the 12 hours of the required training must be in the Knowledge and Competency Framework (KCF) areas of III, IX, and/or X. For information on types of items that would be approved for the grant and the grants amounts, please read the Grant Application Guide below. Programs MUST read the Grant Application Guide and use it to complete the online Application.
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Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Early childhood programs or providers in Minnesota who are licensed, soon-to-be licensed, certified, or exempt from licensing with an active Develop Membership. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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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.