Mini
Grants $
50,000
The Mini Grant Program is a user-friendly mechanism developed
to fund small one-time projects promoting optimal childhood development
in Madera County.
Category 1: One-Time Only Funds ($30,000)
Mini grants are not to exceed $5,000
for one-time interventions for children, families
and/or service providers. Applications are accepted quarterly
Category 2: Quality Care
for Children Funds ($12,000)
Mini grants not to exceed $750 for
licensed in-home child care providers for the
purchase of equipment and/or materials to enhance the environment of home child care centers.
*Applications are available at the First 5 Family Resource Center and are due on August 7, 2009.
Category 3: Growing Family Library ($8,000 total)
Funds designed to offer Mini-Grants directly to families in the form of $50.00 coupons to be used at a family book fair following a brief workshop on the "how to" of engaging their children in literacy experineces at home. This fair would mimic the child care fair in that vendors will be pre-selected to sell age-appropriate literacy materials as approved by First 5. Mini-Grants under this category are not to exceed $50.00 and will be issued in the form of coupons for use at the designated fair.
