Deadline: 14-Apr-2022
The Early Childhood Investment Corporation (ECIC) is seeking applications for its Child Care Innovation Fund to support organizations or partnerships of organizations to pilot a child care innovation which is designed to benefit an entire region and/or community of the state, not one individual child care business.
Funding Information
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Start Up: Pilot a child care Innovation:
- Up to $100,000
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Scale Up: Expand the depth and reach of an existing child care innovation pilot
- Up to $150,000
Child Care Innovation Opportunities
- Innovation Opportunity 1: Create Synergy between the economic development and child care sectors.
- Innovation Opportunity 2: Promote Parental choice and empower working parents by expanding access to preschool options that best suit their families’ needs.
- Innovation Opportunity 3: Improve wages, benefits, and on-the-job supports for early educators in group family homes or child care centers within a defined community or region.
Geographic Areas
- Applicants whose work supports geographic areas in Michigan that meet the criteria will be prioritized for funding:
- Geographic areas where the ratio of children ages 0-5 to the number of licensed child care spots is greater than three
- Geographic areas where the ratio of children 0-5 to the number of licensed child care spots is less than three but more than one.
Eligibility Criteria
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Their grant awards support organizations or partnerships of organizations to pilot or scale up a child care innovation which is designed to benefit an entire region and/or community of the state, not one individual child care business. The following types of organizations are eligible to apply:
- Not-for-profit organizations
- For-profit organizations
- Governmental units (e.g., local government, local governmental unit, public ormunicipal corporation, or unit of a State university system)
- Partnership of multiple organizations (with an identified lead applicant/fiduciary)
For more information, visit Early Childhood Investment Corporation.
For more information, visit https://www.ecic4kids.org/child-care-innovation-fund-grants/