Grant and Funding Notices

Please see ACF Funding Opportunity Announcements for all new and current postings.

Grants.gov is the website used to submit grant applications electronically. If your organization has not submitted an application through Grants.gov before, be aware that it may take up to a full week to complete the set-up.

Head Start Graduate Student Research Grant

The full announcement for "Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Head Start Graduate Student Research Grants" is available online at the following link: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2012-ACF-OPRE-YR-0281. These grants are meant to facilitate high quality research that directly addresses the needs of low-income children, families, and their early childhood educators, to inform and improve Head Start policies and practice, and to foster mentoring relationships between faculty members and high quality doctoral students.

Child Care Graduate Student Research Grant

The full announcement for "Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Child Care Research Scholars" is available online at the following link: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2012-ACF-OPRE-YE-0306. These grants are meant to build capacity in the research field to focus research on questions that have direct implications for child care policy decision-making and program administration and to foster mentoring relationships between faculty members and high quality doctoral students.

Connecting Kids to Coverage Outreach and Enrollment Grant

The full announcement for the Connecting Kids to Coverage Outreach and Enrollment Grants is available at the following link: http://www.insurekidsnow.gov/professionals/new_funding_opportunity_connecting_kids_to_coverage
_outreach_and_enrollment_grants.pdf. Funded under the Affordable Care Act, these grants will continue efforts to find and enroll eligible children in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Indian health care providers and tribal entities also are eligible to apply.

Registering for Head Start

To register your child with a Head Start Program, please go to the Head Start Program Locator or call 1-866-763-6481 (toll-free) to find a Head Start program in your area.

Grant and Funding Notices. HHS/ACF/OHS. 2012. English.