Child Care Innovation Fund Grant

Applications Close April 14 at 5:00 pm for ECIC’s Child Care Innovation Fund
Have a solution for how to reimagine child care? Let’s dream and build together. The Child Care Innovation Fund collaborates with regional and community partners to pilot common-sense business and financing solutions for child care. With our partners, ECIC is creating a playbook of proven child care solutions, ready to be taken to scale for Michigan. Learn more about the innovations we have already invested in across Michigan. 
When are grant applications due?
Grant applications are due this ThursdayApril 14th at 5:00 pm.
Who can apply?  Our grant awards support organizations or partnerships of organizations to pilot a child care innovation designed to benefit an entire region and/or community of the state, not one individual child care business. What are the funding priorities?
Grantees in each of these cohorts will partner with the Innovation Fund with the goal of informing future efforts to scale the innovations outlined above and influence state policy. Visit our website to learn more about about the Child Care Innovation Fund grant.
Have questions? Office hours can be requested at the grants@ecic4kids.org email through April 13.
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The Child Care Innovation Fund was created in 2021 with a seed investment from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. For more information about ECIC’s Child Care Innovation Fund, visit https://www.ecic4kids.org/child-care-innovation-fund/ or email questions to grants@ecic4kids.org.