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HHS-2024-ACF-ECD-TP-0055: FY 2024 Preschool Development Birth Through Five Renewal Grant

Closed Closed July 31, 2024 Opportunity HHS-2024-ACF-ECD-TP-0055 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: Preschool Development Grant Birth Through Five (PDG B-5) SMART Grant (HHS-2026-ACF-ECD-TP-0039). Status: Closes November 20, 2026 (13 days left). It is in our archive of Administration for Children and Families notices from 2024.

• Award ceiling$8.5 million
• Award floor$500,000
• Total funding$85.0 million
• Expected awards10
• Cost sharingRequired
• Funding typeGrant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to state and local governments.

• State governments
• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Eligible states will be identified in the full NOFO. Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from the merit review and funding under this funding opportunity.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Every Student Succeeds Act/Preschool Development Grants awards averaged $17.8 million; this notice allows up to $8.5 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (95% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• The notice requires cost sharing or matching funds, so you must contribute part of the project cost.

What the grant funds

The Office of Early Childhood Development within the Administration for Children and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services jointly with the Department of Education will be soliciting applications from eligible states and territories to carry out the renewal grant activities of the Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5). The PDG B-5 Renewal Grant will fund states to build upon their initial grant activities, while considering the changing needs of children and families created by the COVID 19 Pandemic, and investing in strategies that will address those needs, supporting and strengthening the early childhood care and education (ECCE) workforce, enhancing quality, and expanding access to early childhood services for children, particularly those in high need communities. Recipients of PDG B-5 Renewal Grant funding are encouraged to use a certain portion of grant funds to award subgrants to ECE programs, to expand access to and enhance the quality of existing services or develop new programs that address the needs of low-income and disadvantaged young children and families in the mixed delivery system across the state.

Category: Income Security and Social Services.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, HHS-2026-ACF-ECD-TP-0039, which is open now.

The notice on Grants.gov keeps its full text and attachments, which is useful for planning a resubmission.