Grants
Operations
- Child Care Operating Funding (CCOF) assists with the day-to-day costs of running a licensed child care facility.
- The Child Care Fee Reduction Initiative (CCFRI) lowers the cost of child care for parents each month. Parents do not need to apply for the fee reduction.
- Community Gaming Grants support eligible not-for-profit organizations that deliver community programs that benefit the citizens of British Columbia.
- The Early Childhood Educator Wage Enhancement. Front-line Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) working in eligible licensed child care facilities receiving Child Care Operating Funding (CCOF) are eligible to receive a $1 per hour wage enhancement.
- Community Gaming Grants support eligible not-for-profit organizations that deliver community programs that benefit the citizens of British Columbia.
- The Childcare BC Maintenance Fund helps licensed child care facilities address maintenance issues that may impact children’s health, safety, or well-being, or cause a facility to close.
- Community Gaming Grants support eligible not-for-profit organizations that deliver community programs that benefit the citizens of British Columbia.
- The FCC AgriSpirit Fund may provide between $5,000 to $25,000 to projects that qualify in a city or town with less than 150,000 people. Cannot be used for operating budgets or debt reduction.
- The Childcare BC New Spaces Fund is helping to fund the creation of 22,000 licensed child care spaces throughout British Columbia. Funding is available to support the creation, expansion and relocation of child care facilities proposing to create new licensed child care spaces in the following categories: Group Child Care (Under 36 Months); Group Child Care (30 Months to School Age); Group Child Care (School Age); Preschool; Multi-Age Child Care; Family; and In-Home Multi-Age Child Care
- Canada Post Community Foundation provides grants to Canadian schools, charities and organizations (including child care) in an effort to make a difference in the lives of children in our communities. The application period is open from March to April.
- The Keg Spirit Foundation will consider funding for both new and established projects based on the following criteria: the organization must hold, in good standing, a current charity registration number; the project must relate to children or youth in some way; the program should contain a mentoring component.
Early Childhood Education – Students, professionals, employers
Professional Development
- Early Childhood Educators of British Columbia (ECEBC) offers two bursary programs for BC ECE students and professionals in partnership with the Province of British Columbia. This has enhanced and expanded the ECE Bursary Program, now known as the ECE Education Support Fund. This new program contains two funding programs: the Early Childhood Education (ECE) Student Bursary Program; and the new ECE Workforce Development Bursary Fund Program
- WorkBC (for employers). This stream supports unemployed, underemployed and low-skilled British Columbians to obtain essential, transferable and certified skills to increase their job security and obtain good-paying jobs. The stream will fund training for early childhood educators. Can be used to train up Early Childhood Education Assistants.
- Canada Summer Jobs (for employers) is an initiative of the Youth Employment Strategy, which is the Government of Canada’s commitment to help young people between the ages of 15 and 30. The program provides wage subsidies to employers from not-for-profit organizations to create quality summer work experiences for young people. NOTE- youth employed through this grant would not be qualified to work alone with children (in ratio) but could provide additional support to the program.
