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"Financing Child Care in the United States: An Illustrative Catalog" is a 1997 publication by the Pew Charitable Trusts which contains excellent information on financing. A full text version is available on the web.
The Finance Project is a national
initiative to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of public- and
private-sector financing for education, other children's services, and community
building and development.
A list of Funding Resources and Opportunities from the NCCIC (National Child Care Information Center)
The 21st Century Community Learning Centers program provides grants to rural and inner-city public schools to address the educational needs of its community after-school, weekends and summers. This link provides background information about this grant program, as well as access to the RFP.
Child Care and Development Block Grant makes grants to States and Tribes to assist low- income families with child care. This web site contains the federal government's information on the CCDBG.
Department of Education Funding Opportunities If you're interested in applying for a grant or contract, here's information you'll need to know. Department guidelines, regulations, and Federal Register documents are available here. Interested in the Department of Education budget? That's in this section too.
DHHS Regional Offices
Final Rule: Child Care Development Fund for policy guidance, program announcements and funding announcements of the Child Care Bureau
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation places a major focus on helping to improve people’s lives through health and learning. It invests in partnerships with individuals and organizations that bring experience, expertise and commitment to their own efforts to help people through better health and learning. In the Pacific Northwest, the Foundation supports a broad range of projects and programs, with a special emphasis on vulnerable children and their families.
Carnegie Corporation of New York - The Grant-making Foundation
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation has pledged up to $55 million in support of a five-year, $1-billion federal proposal to expand before- and after-school programs for children through the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program.
The Commonwealth is a private foundation that supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy. The Fund is dedicated to helping people become more informed about their health care, and improving care for vulnerable populations such as children, elderly people, low-income families, minority Americans, and the uninsured. In its own community, New York City, the Fund makes grants to improve health care and enhance public spaces and services.
Council on Foundations is a nonprofit membership association of grant-making foundations and corporations that works to support foundations by promoting knowledge, growth and action in philanthropy.
David and Lucile Packard Foundation functions by using private funds for public purposes. It believes America to be the home of a unique type of organization dependent upon private funding and volunteer leadership. Together, universities, national institutions, community groups, youth agencies, family planning centers, and hospitals constitute a great American tradition that complements government efforts to focus on society's needs.
Ford Foundation’s goals are to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement. It believes the best way to achieve these goals is to encourage initiatives by those living and working closest to where problems are located; to promote collaboration among the nonprofit, government and business sectors, and to ensure participation by men and women from diverse communities and at all levels of society.
Hewlett Foundation has a strong commitment to the voluntary, nonprofit sector. The Foundation's broad purpose, as stated in the articles of incorporation, is to promote the well-being of mankind by supporting selected activities of a charitable nature, as well as organizations or institutions engaged in such activities.
MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition. The Foundation pursues this mission by supporting research, policy development, dissemination, education and training, and practice.
Nellie Mae Education Foundation is New England’s largest public charity dedicated exclusively to improving academic achievement for the region’s under-served communities. It provides grants and technical assistance to programs that concentrate on academic enrichment, college planning, advising, preparation and retention support for low-income, under-served students in grades 5 through 14, and adult learners.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is the largest US foundation devoted to improving the health and health care of all Americans.
Spencer Foundation was established as an educational publishing firm. The foundation is intended to investigate ways in which education, broadly conceived, can be improved around the world.
Surdna Foundation was established in 1917 to pursue philanthropic purposes. Its programmatic emphasis is to serve as a residential treatment, special education and diagnostic center for emotionally disabled children.
For more than a decade, The Wallace Foundation has worked to expand learning and enrichment opportunities for all people. Our efforts toward this goal have yielded important insights and lessons, and we have designed our website to make this knowledge more accessible to visitors. We especially invite you to browse the Knowledge Center. It is a repository of field-based evidence of what is working, what is not, and why – not only in our current areas of focus, but in areas where we have worked in the past.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation
William T. Grant Foundation's goal is to help create a society that values young people and enables them to reach their full potential. The Foundation supports three new programs of research that focus on Youth Development, Systems Affecting Youth, and the Public's View of Youth. The Foundation is especially interested in interdisciplinary research, including policy analyses and strategic communications research.
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