Project Grant H8K49784

Federal Grant Award Summary The Education & Workforce Development Cabinet received a $5.93 million Preschool Development Grants Birth Through Five System Building Grant (CFDA 93.434) from the Office of Child Care, awarded December 31, 2025, with a completion date of December 30, 2026. This project grant supports Kentucky's development and strengthening of a unified state early care and education system that integrates policies, initiatives, and funding streams across multiple early childhood...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, under the Child Care Mandatory and Matching Funds of the Child Care and Development Fund (CFDA 93.596) program, will provide $198,670.00 to the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) to conduct research on "Using Linked Administrative Data to Identify Successful Pathways to Advancement and Professional Development for the ECE Workforce". The project aims...

Federal Grant Award Summary The State of Alaska Department of Health received a $4.92 million Project Grant under the Preschool Development Grants Birth through Five Systems-Building Grant program (CFDA 93.434) from the Office of Child Care, awarded December 31, 2025, with a completion date of December 30, 2026. This award supports Alaska's efforts to strengthen coordination and service delivery across its early childhood system for children birth through age five, building on the state's...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Connecticut Office of Early Childhood received a $23.9 million Preschool Development Grants Birth Through Five (PDG B-5) Systems-Building Grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (CFDA 93.434) to strengthen Connecticut's early childhood education system for children birth through age five. The award, effective from December 31, 2025, through December 30, 2026, supports the development and...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Florida's Department of Education, Division of Early Learning (DEL) received a $14.751 million Preschool Development Grants Birth through Five Systems-Building Grant (CFDA 93.434) from the Office of Child Care, awarded December 31, 2025, with completion targeted for December 30, 2026. This project grant supports Florida's redesign of its early childhood education workforce credentialing system into a coherent, competency-based framework that establishes...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded a $1,142,622 project grant to the University of Massachusetts Boston under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to conduct a three-year study examining episodic future thinking (EFT) development in early childhood. The research will quantify the processing capacity of EFT during memory retrieval and planning in 3- and 4-year-old children while identifying...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Delaware Department of Education received an $11.3 million Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Child Care under the Preschool Development Grants Birth through Five (PDG B-5) Systems-Building Grant program (CFDA 93.434) awarded on December 31, 2025, with a completion date of December 30, 2026. This award supports Delaware's development of a coordinated early childhood education (ECE) system designed to serve children...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education (ADECE) received a $3.88 million Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5) Systems-Building Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Child Care under CFDA 93.434 (Every Student Succeeds Act/Preschool Development Grants). Awarded on December 31, 2025, with a completion date of December 30, 2026, this project grant supports Alabama's efforts to build on previous planning...

This $386,040 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families under the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CFDA 93.575) program, will support a mixed-method study examining national, state, and local perspectives on infant and toddler early care and education access. The study will be conducted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), which is part of the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE). The project...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Massachusetts Department of Early Education & Care received an $11.97 million Project Grant from the Office of Child Care under the Preschool Development Grants Birth Through Five (PDG B-5) program (CFDA 93.434) awarded on December 31, 2025, with a completion date of December 30, 2026. This systems-building grant supports two primary outcome strategies: maximizing family choice in accessing affordable early education and child care, and developing a...