Closed · HHS-2021-ACF-OPRE-YE-1901 · CFDA 93.575 · Discretionary
Coordinated Evaluations of Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Policies and Initiatives
Federal grant opportunity posted by Administration for Children and Families - OPRE, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- $75K-$150K
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- July 20, 2021
- Close date
- 15
- Expected awards
The verdict
Coordinated Evaluations of Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Policies and Initiatives is a closed discretionary listing from Administration for Children and Families - OPRE that offered $75,000 -- $150,000 across 15 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 89 other opportunities from Administration for Children and Families - OPRE.
- $75K-$150K
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 15
- expected awards
- 93.575
- CFDA program
Archived opportunity record
Coordinated Evaluations of Child Care and Dev… is closed (last close July 20, 2021). The parent program page for CFDA 93.575 is the reliable place to catch re-announcements. Administration for Children and Families - OPRE still indexes 89 other opportunities here.
According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.
Deadline tracker
Application window closed
Closed July 20, 2021
Est. Total Funding
$2,250,000
Expected Awards
15
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Description
The FOA has been modified to correct an error in the page limit for the application in Section IV.2. Content and Form of Application Submission. Applicants must limit the combined Project Description and Appendices file to 100 pages. The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), within the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF), intends to award cooperative agreements under the Coordinated Evaluations of Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Policies and Initiatives: Planning Grants (Phase I) to support partnerships between Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agencies and researchers to develop rigorous, policy-relevant evaluations testing child care subsidy policies designed to increase low-income families’ access to high quality child care. Sponsored projects will evaluate local policies and practices related to setting and implementing subsidy payment rates and/or family co-payments. These projects will inform local and federal understanding about the efficacy of child care subsidy policies and practices. These 18-month grants, with one project and budget period, will fund a planning phase to design evaluations. These planning grants may be followed by a second competition (Phase II), under a separate FOA, to support execution of the research and evaluation plans. Projects must be conducted through partnerships between CCDF lead agencies (i.e., states, territories, tribes, or local subsidy administering agencies) and researchers from institutions of higher education or research organizations. The research supported by this grant program should be collaborative from start to finish. The CCDF lead agency and their research partners must work together to refine research plans and protocols during the planning grant period to prepare to implement a rigorous evaluation of subsidy payment rate and family co-payment methods and structures in the subsidy system. Sponsored projects will be expected to participate in a consortium that will meet and communicate regularly to identify opportunities for coordination, such as common data elements and research methods, and to develop collective expertise and resources for the field. The consortium’s collaboration will support research capacity and learning within individual projects and across grantees.
Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · HHS-2021-ACF-OPRE-YE-1901
Grants.gov marks Coordinated Evaluations of Child Care and Dev… with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Unrestricted / see official listing). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Income Security and Social Services (ISS). Only 1 other Administration for Children and Families - OPRE listing share this exact eligibility-code string (1% of 90).
- Code 99
- Unrestricted / see official listing
Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.
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Parent Grant Program
Child Care and Development Block Grant
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Agency Contact
Ann Rivera ann.rivera@acf.hhs.gov
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What to do next
Coordinated Evaluations of Child Care and Dev… is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.
- Parent CFDA 93.575 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
- Child Care and Development Block Grant indexes 1 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
- Administration for Children and Families - OPRE lists 89 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog
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