Deadline: 5-Dec-21
The Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) is inviting applications for Child Care Business Emergency Grant Program to help licensed child care providers suffering severe revenue shortages cover emergency projects and operating expenses to keep their business open.
Eligible programs include licensed centers, group, and family child care homes. The emergency grant is designed to help cover immediate business expenses, including urgent facility maintenance, for programs most in jeopardy of closing in the next 180 days.
Funding Information
- Grants up to $25,000 to licensed providers operating for 6 months or more with enrolled children, that are suffering severe revenue shortages and in need of financial assistance to cover emergency projects and operating expenses
Eligibility Criteria
- Be in business as an Connecticut Office of Early Childhood (OEC) OEC-licensed family home, group, or center with enrolled children for at least 6 months as of October 31, 2021
- Have a minimum of 60% of licensed capacity enrolled as of October 31, 2021, including school age children
- Profitable in 2019, 2020, or 2021, or broke even as a non-profit in one of these years
- Be in good standing with the CT Department of Revenue Services (DRS) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- Have an urgent financial need, and unable to cover emergency expenses from income, savings, or 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
- For purposes of the WBDC’s Child Care Business Opportunity Fund grants, the definitions of full-time and part-time are as follows:
- Full-time for centers (DCCC), group homes (DCGH) programs means that 50% or more of the classrooms in your program operate 30 hours or more per week.
- Full-time for family child care homes means that your program operates 30 hours or more per week.
- Part-time for centers (DCCC), group homes (DCGH) programs means that less than 50% of the classrooms in your program operate 30 hours or more per week.
- Part-time for family child care homes means that your program is open less than 30 hours per week.
Note: These definitions are consistent with those from OEC Stabilization Funding.
For more information, visit https://ctwbdc.org/emergency-grant/