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The New Jersey Child Care Facilities Improvement Program
The Child Care Facilities Improvement Program provides grants to New Jersey child care providers for facilities improvements that will contribute to high quality early childhood learning environments.
Phase 1 of the Child Care Facilities Improvement Program will provide grants for total project costs between $50,000 and $200,000 to licensed child care providers to make improvements to their child care facility in order to:
- Provide funding to businesses—including many minority- and women-owned businesses and those in Opportunity Zone eligible census tracts—that otherwise may not have access to resources to fund facility improvements.
- Promote healthy childhood environments for children, families, and child care providers that were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Support the capacity of child care providers to provide infant and toddler care in tandem with the expansion of Universal Pre-K to serve more 4-year-olds in the state.
- Engage providers to participate in New Jersey’s child care quality improvement rating system, Grow NJ Kids.
- Target resources to communities of greater need due to historic disinvestment, through set-aside for providers located in Opportunity Zones and include the requirement that providers serve low-income children receiving Child Care Assistance subsidies.
Child care centers licensed by the NJ Department of Children and Families (NJDCF) as of June 4, 2021 are eligible to apply for facility improvement grants. Child care providers may own or lease the space where the facility improvement will occur. Landlords are not eligible to apply.
Applicants are limited to two applications per Employer Identification Number (EIN). Applicants operating from multiple locations under a sole EIN must submit separate applications for each NJDCF-licensed location, up to two locations.
You can find answers to frequently asked questions or points of clarification that NJEDA has encountered since opening the Child Care Facilities Improvement Application in November 2022 HERE.
Should you have additional questions, you can also contact CustomerCare@njeda.com, call (844) 965-1125, or use the Customer Care chat feature found on the NJEDA website.
Please reach out to Hilary Chebra, Manager, Government Affairs at hchebra@chambersnj.com if you have any questions
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