EEC is conducting a competitive procurement to award grants to cities, towns, regional school districts or educational collaboratives for the purposes of expanding high-quality pre-kindergarten or preschool opportunities, on a voluntary basis, to children who will be eligible for kindergarten by September 2023.
Donor Name: Department of Early Education and Care
State: Massachusetts
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/13/2023
Size of the Grant: $138,000
Grant Duration: 31 months
Details:
EEC will use the model of the Commonwealth Preschool Partnership Initiative (CPPI) grant to engage communities in collaborations between public school districts and EEC-licensed early education programs to expand local access to high quality preschool for three and four-year-old children that meets the diverse needs of families in their communities.
Funding Information
- EEC expects to award a minimum of $138,000 to each Applicant with an anticipated number of five (5) grantees.
- Grant Duration
- Initial Duration: Seven (7) Months
- February 1, 2023 to August 31, 2023
- Renewal Options: Two (2) one-year options
- September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2024
- September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025
- Total Maximum Grant Duration
- Two (2) years and Seven (7) months
- Initial Duration: Seven (7) Months
Eligibility Criteria
- To be considered for the CPPI Cohort 4 Grant, applicants must meet the following criteria:
- The application must represent a partnership between a public school district (LEA) and at least two (2) EEC-licensed early learning providers (ELPs). The partnering LEA must have staff dedicated to early learning programming. Communities will have until June 30, 2023 to have contracts in place.
- Preference will be given to public school districts serving a high percentage of high-needs students.
- Preference will be given to those communities who are recipients of the FY22 CPPI Planning Grants or the FY22 CPPI Implementation Grants.
- Preference will be given to those communities who have previously conducted a targeted Needs Assessment in the community within the past five years.
- CPPI Maintenance and Cohort 3 grantees are not eligible to apply.
For more information, visit EEC.