# Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agency Data and Research Capacity Grants

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/hhs-2024-acf-opre-ye-0080-child-care-and-development-fund-ccdf-lead-agency/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/351794

> Administration for Children and Families - OPRE offered grants of up to $150,000 (at least $75,000) to any type of organization. It expected to make about 10 awards worth $1.5 million in total. Applications closed on July 8, 2024.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | HHS-2024-ACF-OPRE-YE-0080 |
| Agency | Administration for Children and Families - OPRE |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | July 8, 2024 |
| Award ceiling | $150,000 |
| Award floor | $75,000 |
| Expected awards | 10 |
| Total funding | $1.5 million |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 93.575 |

## Who can apply

- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Independent school districts
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"

The applicant eligibility is unrestricted. The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agency Data and Research Capacity Award Program is intended to fund collaborative research projects between a CCDF Lead Agency and their research partner(s) (e.g., institutions of higher education, research organizations). Therefore, eligible applicants may be either the CCDF Lead Agency or research partner organizations. CCDF Lead Agencies can partner on multiple applications for funding under this award program; however, it is unlikely that a lead agency would receive more than one award as the award recipient or as the partner. This also applies to research partner organizations, such that organizations may submit multiple applications as the research partner, but an organization is unlikely to receive more than one award as the award recipient or as the partner. 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. Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity. Faith-based organizations may apply for this award on the same basis as any other organization, as set forth at and, subject to the protections and requirements of 45 CFR Part 87 and 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq., ACF will not, in the selection of recipients, discriminate against an organization on the basis of the organization's religious character, affiliation, or exercise.

## What the grant funds

The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), within the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF), plans to solicit applications for cooperative agreements under the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agency Data and Research Capacity: Planning Grants (Phase I). These projects are meant to support partnerships between CCDF Lead Agencies and researchers to develop and improve state, territory, and tribal data systems and build the capacity of CCDF Lead Agencies to collect, analyze, and use data to guide child care policy decisions and program improvement efforts. Sponsored projects will work in collaboration to: (1) assess the current data and research capacity of the CCDF Lead Agency; (2) develop questions of interest to investigate state, territory, and tribal child care policies and practices; (3) develop logic models to identify the data needed to address the questions of interest; (4) identify data sources available to answer questions of interest and assess the accessibility of those data; (5) identify possible data sources from other state, territory, tribal, and local data systems for linking; (6) determine whether there is a need to collect data to answer policy-relevant questions; and (7) address the barriers to collecting, analyzing, and using data to inform child care policy decisions. These projects are intended to build the capacity of CCDF Lead Agencies to use data, including data on children, families, the workforce, and providers that participate in the child care subsidy system, to make data-informed decisions to improve child care policies and practices. These 18-month projects, with one project and budget period, will fund a planning phase to develop a research plan to address questions of interest to the CCDF Lead Agency, including a plan for identifying, linking, and using state, territory, and tribal data to inform child care policy decisions. These planning projects may be followed by a second competition (Phase II), under a separate Notice of Funding Opportunity, to support execution of the research plans to develop and improve state, territory, and tribal data systems.

## Questions people ask

### Is HHS-2024-ACF-OPRE-YE-0080 still open?

No. It closed on July 8, 2024.

### Who can apply for Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agency Data and Research Capacity Grants?

Administration for Children and Families - OPRE accepted applications from any type of organization. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.

### What is the deadline for Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agency Data and Research Capacity Grants?

Closed July 8, 2024. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

Awards of up to $150,000 each. About $1.5 million in total across about 10 awards.

### Who has won Child Care and Development Block Grant grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were Texas Workforce Commission, Florida Department of Education, Department of Education California. The program made 2,389 awards worth $79 billion in that time.