Access to Infant and Toddler Care and Education: Research and Evaluation
Posted by Administration for Children and Families - OPRE
Opportunity snapshot. This Grants.gov announcement — Access to Infant and Toddler Care and Education: Research and Evaluation — is cataloged under number HHS-2024-ACF-OPRE-YE-1212 and tied to CFDA assistance listing 93.575, posted by Administration for Children and Families - OPRE. Grants.gov currently shows the opportunity as closed, first posted on May 9, 2024 and last updated on May 10, 2024. The funding category is Discretionary, delivered as a cooperative agreement.
Award economics. The award range on file is $75,000 -- $450,000. The agency has projected $2.4 million in total estimated funding for this announcement. It expects to issue 8 awards. If the agency funds the expected 8 awards from the $2.4 million estimated pool, the average award works out to roughly $300,000. Cost sharing is not required, so applicants do not need to commit matching funds to be competitive on this opportunity. Federal award ranges are often upper bounds; actual allocations reflect program appropriations, the strength of the applicant pool, and the evaluation committee's scoring.
Deadline and action path. This opportunity closed on July 8, 2024. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number, so monitoring the parent program page is the most reliable way to catch re-announcements. Every Grants.gov submission requires an active SAM.gov registration and a Unique Entity ID. Review the Eligibility section below carefully — federal eligibility categories (nonprofit, state or local government, tribal, individual, educational institution, small business) have distinct registration and reporting requirements. Pre-application outreach to the listed agency contact is permitted and often welcomed — it helps clarify scope and scoring priorities.
Award Range
$75,000 -- $450,000
Close Date
July 8, 2024
Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time on the listed application due date.
Posted
May 9, 2024
Est. Total Funding
$2,400,000
Expected Awards
8
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Description
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) intends to solicit applications for Access to Infant and Toddler Care and Education: Research and Evaluation awards. The early care and education (ECE) landscape has shifted in recent years due to a number of factors including, but not limited to, increasing state and local investments in public pre-kindergarten, a declining supply of home-based ECE settings, changing ECE workforce qualification or educational requirements, and ECE workforce shortages and provider instability exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This shifting landscape has implications, including unintended consequences, for access to infant and toddler care and education (i.e., the extent to which families are able to secure care with reasonable effort, the affordability of care, care that meets parents’ needs, care that supports children’s development).This grant opportunity will provide funding to address key research and evaluation questions related to care and education access for infants and toddlers at the national, state, or local level.Specifically, these awards will support either:descriptive research studies to document current access, shifts in access over time, or the characteristics of specific policies, practices, or other efforts that may be affecting access; orevaluations to explore the implementation or effects of specific policies, practices, or other efforts that may be affecting access.Proposed projects can include primary data collection and/or leverage secondary data sources. Proposed projects can use quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods data at the national, state or territory, or local level.It is anticipated that awards will have a projected 36-month project period starting on September 30, 2024, and ending September 29, 2027, with two 18-month budget periods. The award ceiling and floor included in this forecast are per budget period. For further information about OPRE, see http://acf.hhs.gov/opre.If you are interested in this funding opportunity, please register at Grants.gov and subscribe to this forecast to receive update notifications.
Eligibility
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Official Listing on Grants.gov
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Parent Grant Program
Child Care and Development Block Grant
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Agency Contact
Jenessa Malin<br/>Jenessa.Malin@acf.hhs.gov
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