Deadline: 24-May-22
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Child Care (OCC) is pleased to announce the availability of funds and request applications for its Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Native Hawaiian Non-profit Organization Child Care Grant.
The purpose of this grant is to provide child care services to Native Hawaiian youth who are not currently receiving child care services funded by other Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) formula grants.
The CCDF subsidies help low-income families with children under the age of 13 pay for child care. As a block grant, CCDF gives funding to states, territories, and tribes to provide child care subsidies through vouchers or certificates to low-income families and grants and contracts (e.g., direct services) to providers in some states.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,000,000
- Award Floor: $500,000
- Length of Project Periods: 60-month project period with five 12-month budget periods
Activities
The recipient funded through this NOFO must design a child care program that adequately addresses needs and unique circumstances of the Native Hawaiian populations it intends to serve. OCC envisions programs to incorporate the following elements:
- Serving children in safe, healthy, nurturing child care settings that are effective in promoting learning and child development;
- Developing and/or implementing program standards to ensure health and safety and quality of care;
- Minimizing any disruptions to children’s development and learning by promoting continuity of care;
- Promoting strategies that ensure an adequate supply of child care providers;
- Providing professional development and other support to child care providers;
- Promoting culturally relevant activities, including language immersion programs, the integration of storytellers, and cultural training for parents and providers;
- Ensuring that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and Two-Spirit individuals, including parents, children, and providers, are fairly treated and served in an inclusive and non stigmatizing way;
- Engaging and supporting parents and other family members by including providing consumer education;
- Supporting parent employment and expanding quality choices available to them;
- Promoting continuous quality improvement activities;
- Coordinating and collaborating with other early care and education programs administered at the state or local level, schools, and other services as appropriate;
- Ensuring program accountability and integrity; and
- Ensuring children’s health and safety through announced and unannounced visits and background checks, by the recipient or other entity.
Eligibility Criteria
- Native Hawaiian private non-profit organization[s] established for the purpose of serving youth who are Native Hawaiian are eligible applicants for this grant. The recipient under this NOFO must use their CCDF funds to serve Native Hawaiian youth.
- The organization must be recognized by the Governor of Hawaii for the purpose of planning, conducting, or administering programs (or portion of programs) for the benefit of Native Hawaiians. Applicants must submit supporting documentation that validates board members are included within one or more of the following categories:
- members of federally or state-recognized tribes;
- persons who are recognized by members of the eligible Native American community to be served as having a cultural relationship with that community; or
- persons considered to be Native Hawaiian.
- Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and from funding under this funding opportunity.
- Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=335566
