Deadline: 30-Dec-22
The Early Childhood Education and Care Department (ECECD) is currently accepting Letters of Interest (LOI) for the New Mexico Child Care Supply Building Grant Program.
The New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department (ECECD) prioritizes increasing access and quality to early childhood services to meet the needs of children, families and communities.
Purpose
- ECECD’s aim is to ensure that high quality child care is available and accessible to all New Mexican families that need child care.
- The Child Care Supply Building Grant will build critically needed high quality child care supply throughout New Mexico, especially in areas of high poverty that are designated as child care deserts.
Priorities
ECECD will prioritize LOIs that propose to:
- Increase child care supply in New Mexico’s designated child care deserts
- Increase the supply of child care in communities with high poverty
- Increase the supply of Infant and Toddler child care
- Increase the supply of non-traditional hour child care
- Increase the supply before and after school child care
Eligibility Criteria
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The Child Care Supply Building Grant is open only to:
- existing licensed or registered child care providers doing business in the State of New Mexico, including eligible head start and tribal early child care providers, who seek to expand child care programs; and
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employers that intend to create or expand child care for their employees. To qualify, applicants must:
- propose to increase the supply of licensed, high quality, child care for infants, toddlers and young children;
- demonstrate the commitment and capacity to build that proposed child care supply;
- demonstrate the ability to open the proposed licensed child care within six months of award;
- commit to operating the proposed child care for at least ten years; and
- commit to operating the proposed child care at ECECD’s 5 Star group size and ratio requirements.
For more information, visit ECECD.
For more information, visit https://www.nmececd.org/2022/05/20/new-mexico-child-care-supply-building-grant/