Child Care Grants
No fixed amount
Grant
Description:
The Trust’s Child Care Grants focus on strengthening the quality of child care in the Basin.
This program has two funding streams, New Equipment and Small Improvements. Each funding stream has unique eligibility and project requirements. If you are a non-profit or a for-profit provider of licensed child care, carefully review each stream below, you may be eligible to submit one application per child care facility, per funding stream.
Comments on Funding:
– Stream One – New Equipment
This funding stream supports the acquisition of specialized equipment to improve the quality and safety of child care operations.
– Stream Two – Small Improvements
This funding stream supports improvements, upgrades and renovations to licensed child care spaces to improve and sustain the quality and safety of the operations.
Applications are closed. Stay tuned for future intake announcements
Eligibility:
Applicants must:
For Stream One – New Equipment
1. Be Indigenous (First Nation & Metis), non-profit and for-profit providers of licensed child care in the Columbia Basin Trust region.
a. Group Child Care
b. Group Child Care (School Age)
c. Multi-Age Child Care
d. Preschool
e. Family Child Care
f. In-Home Multi-Age Child Care
g. Registered License Not Required
For Stream Two – Small Improvements
1. Be Indigenous (First Nation & Metis), non-profit and for-profit providers of licensed child care in the Columbia Basin Trust region.
a. Group Child Care
b. Group Child Care (School Age)
c. Multi-Age Child Care
d. Preschool
Application Steps:
Applicants must contact Jill McIntosh
Program Coordinator, Delivery of Benefits
childcaresupport@ourtrust.org
1.250.304.1627
Documentation Needed:
No specific documentation has been identified.
Other Things to Note:
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