Transforming Early Educator Lead Teacher Preparation Programs Through Multi-Partner Innovation
Solicitation Title: Transforming Early Educator Lead Teacher Preparation Programs Through Multi-Partner Innovation
Funding Amount: $200,000 to $5 million
Sponsor Deadline: Monday, March 2, 2020
Solicitation Link: https://earlyedcollaborative.org/what-we-do/grants/?utm_source=The%20Foundation%20for%20Child%20Development&utm_campaign=f059e207a8-EMAIL_LEARNING_CURVE_1_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d232f6e837-f059e207a8-185825221
Overview
<p>The Collaborative is inviting all eligible parties to submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) to offer innovative proposals to foster comprehensive systems change for early educator preparation and compensation, so all children have access to a highly competent and well-compensated early childhood educator.</p> <p>The Collaborative is a group of national ECE-focused funders who envision a country in which opportunity and achievement gaps no longer exist so that all students, especially children from families with low incomes and children of color, make significant and sustained gains in cognitive, social, and emotional development. One way to manifest this vision is by ensuring that every young child has access to high-quality ECE programs led by well-prepared and appropriately compensated teachers. The Collaborative hopes to drive toward this vision by addressing the inadequacies of current ECE systems, with a focus on breaking down the barriers and addressing gaps in workforce preparation and compensation/financing systems.</p> <p>The Collaborative’s latest grant opportunity will provide two-year grants to support partnerships in expanding or implementing innovative teacher preparation programs in state/territory/Tribal Nation early childhood education (ECE) systems. Eligible partnerships must be comprised of at least the following two entity types: 1) a lead applicant four-year institute of higher education (IHE) that offers a bachelor’s degree program for lead teachers; and 2) a state/territory/Tribal Nation.</p>
Solicitation Limitations: <p>The Collaborative will not support planning grants—proposals that primarily focus on allocating time and resource budgets towards establishing a new partnership or doing planning without implementation of an idea.</p> Other Information:<p>To be considered for funding, each partnership must contribute at least 10 percent of the requested amount in matching funds (real or in-kind) to the project during the grant period. The Collaborative will fund the remaining 90 percent.</p> <p>LOIs should be informed by the recommendations outlined in the Institute of Medicine’s report, “Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation” and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s report, “Transforming the Financing of Early Care and Education.”</p> <p>Grants will vary in size according to identified need and the proposed reform’s stage of development, with minimum grant awards ranging from approximately $200,000 to $600,000 and maximum awards ranging from approximately $3 million to $5 million.</p> <p>Partnerships that include HBCUs, HSIs, TCUs, tribal-serving colleges and universities, and other four-year IHEs with a successful record of preparing students who bring racial, ethnic, linguistic, or socioeconomic diversity to the field will automatically receive an additional 10 points on top of their “Partnership” score. Partnerships that include a two-year, community college institution of higher education, or whose proposal lays out a detailed and viable plan for establishing a meaningful relationship with a two-year, community college institution of higher education to complete this work, will automatically receive an additional 10 points on top of their “Partnership” score.</p>Last Updated:
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