Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity Closed
The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) is offering Child Care Business Emergency Facilities Grant Program that is designed to help licensed child care providers suffering severe revenue shortages cover emergency facilities maintenance projects to keep their business open and operating safely.
Eligible programs include licensed centers, group, and family child care homes. The emergency facilities grant is designed to help cover urgent facilities maintenance for programs suffering severe revenue shortages and in need of financial support.
Funding Information
Grants of up to $25,000 will be awarded to providers that can demonstrate a financial need, are committed to remaining in business, and cannot cover expenses requested in application through business income, savings, or remaining Office of Early Childhood (OEC) Stabilization Funding (if awarded).
Eligibility Criteria
- Be in business as an OEC-licensed family home, group, or center with enrolled children for at least 6 months as of March 1, 2022
- Meet one of the following enrollment criteria:
- Have a minimum of 60% of licensed capacity enrolled as of March 1, 2022, including school age children OR
- Current enrollment is 40%-59% of licensed capacity AND enrollment in Jan 2020 was 60% or higher of licensed capacity OR
- Current enrollment at 60% of adjusted licensed capacity based on business model (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) OR
- Current enrollment down to 40%-59% with classroom closing or staff layoff due to OEC, Health Department, or Fire Department finding
- Profitable in 2019, 2020, or 2021, or broke even as a non-profit in one of these years
- Be in good standing with the Connecticut (CT) Department of Revenue Services (DRS) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), or on a payment plan for back-owed taxes
- Have an urgent financial need, and unable to cover emergency facilities expenses from income, savings, or remaining OEC Stabilization Funding (if awarded)
- Priority Applicants
- If there are more qualified applications than they can fund this round, priority will be given to the following programs:
- Serve infants and toddlers
- Currently receive Care4Kids
- NAFCC or NAEYC Accredited, or Head Start Approved
- State and/or federally funded (i.e., Care4Kids, School Readiness, Child Day Care Contract, State Head Start, Federal Head Start, and DCF)
- For-profit programs that operate full-time
- If there are more qualified applications than they can fund this round, priority will be given to the following programs:
For more information, visit WBDC.
For more information, visit https://ctwbdc.org/facilities-grant/
