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Child Care
The CareBuilders Recoverable Grant Program offers financing and free technical assistance to help child care providers develop the physical environment at child care sites in the District of Columbia with the goal of creating, expanding and improving child care services for infants and toddlers (birth through age three).
Financing is available through recoverable grants typically up to $35,000. The recoverable grants can be used in combination with other project financing. CareBuilders recoverable grants will be offered to child care providers as deferred repayment, 0% to low-interest loans. Repayment on a grant will begin as soon as the child care provider is financially able to manage it.
WACIF also provides free workshops and one-on-one technical assistance to help child care providers understand the components of an infant/toddler-appropriate environment, become grant/loan-ready, develop capacities to sustain operations and prepare to implement projects that create or improve facilities for infant/toddler care in DC. As needed, child care providers can pay for additional technical assistance from approved third-party consultants using grant funds.
The CareBuilders program is available to individuals seeking to start a licensed home- or center-based child care program in DC that will include services for infants/toddlers (birth through age three) and owners of existing licensed home- or center-based child care programs in DC seeking to create, expand or improve physical capacity to serve infants/toddlers (birth through age three).
CareBuilders is sponsored by the District of Columbia’s Early Care and Education Administration (ECEA), which is part of the DC Department of Human Services.
Please note that recoverable grants offered through this program can be used to cover costs associated with making physical changes to new or existing child care sites that will result in the creation, expansion or improvement of child care services for infants or toddlers (birth through age three). This includes consultant costs, professional fees (including architects), sprinkler systems and construction or renovation costs incurred in connection with an approved project.
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