The Washington State Department of Commerce is pleased to announce K-12 School District Grant Program.
Donor Name: Washington State Department of Commerce
State: Washington
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 07/20/2022
Grant Size: $1,080,261
Details:
The ELF Program aims to help Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) contractors and Working Connections Child Care (WCCC) providers expand, remodel, purchase or construct early learning facilities and classrooms necessary to support early learning opportunities for children from low-income households. Transitional Kindergarten is not an allowable use of these funds because they do not offer ECEAP or WCCC.
Funding Information
The award limit for projects applying in the 2022 funding round is $1,080,261.
Eligibility Criteria
- The program is only open to K-12 School Districts. The funding enables school districts to expand, remodel, purchase, or construct early learning facilities and classrooms necessary to support state-funded early learning opportunities for children from low-income households
- The Legislature makes the final determination as to which projects receive ELF Program funding and the amount of funding to each project. The Governor must sign the Capital Budget before an appropriation is legally binding.
- Grantees must be, or intend to be, an active participant in good standing with the Early Achievers Program.
- Grantees must have and maintain a Washington State business license.
- Grantees must be, or intend to be, an Early Childhood Education Assistance (ECEAP) provider and/or a Working Connections Child Care (WCCC)provider who is eligible to receive state subsidies.
- Grantees must create additional ECEAP and/or WCCC capacity as outlined in the application submitted for funding.
- The award must be utilized in the manner outlined in the application submitted for funding.
- The grantee must maintain and operate the early learning or childcare services, applicable number of ECEAP or WCCC slots, and facility operations for the commitment term as outlined in the grant contract
- Washington operates under a biennial (two-year) budget. Each appropriation in the Capital Budget must, by law, lapse at the close of the biennium. Commerce will request one re-appropriation of any unspent funds. However, they cannot guarantee the Legislature will agree to extend funding, nor can they legally obligate funds from one biennium to another.
- Grantees may only receive one grant per early learning facility project. A grantee receiving a direct appropriation through the ELF Program is eligible to apply for a ELF Program competitive grant, but not for the same project that received the direct appropriation in this or prior budgets.Similarly, a grantee that was awarded ELF funding through a previous competitive funding round is eligible to apply again, but not for the same project that was previously awarded.
For more information, visit Washington State Department of Commerce.