Start A Home Daycare

Hi,

I’ve just found an interesting article online about getting a grant to start a home daycare.

I’ve reprinted it for you below:

Grants & Starting A Daycare Center-A Primer!

There have been a lot of questions posted asking about grants for
opening a daycare center. If you operate as a non-profit the number of
grant opportunities increase for you but that doesn’t mean that there
are NO grant opportunities if you want to operate your daycare as a
for-profit business.

For-profit daycare centers have received grants for their daycare
center(s)by showing (and proving) that their daycare will help the
overall community where the daycare center is situated. That can mean
anything from providing daycare services to the low-incomed to
increasing your range of services to include the elderly and/or
disabled and/or the community at large.

The funding can range from federal (they offer the most in grant money)
to your state to the community that your daycare facility will be in.
As much research that I have done for others I have found that there is
a better than average chance of almost any community where this kind of
“daycare” grant would be available. However you will have to do some
work. If you have any experience with filling out paperwork you will
know that a lot will depend on the paperwork that you submit. More
than half of all grant applications are denied because the paperwork
was NOT filled out correctly! This is a proven and documented
statement. You should also be aware that since the Internet has become
so popular there are many grantors (especially the government) that
will let you apply online. Some will even accept email.

You will have to do your research though. One wrong move will mess up
the whole process! Another thing that you should be aware of is that
the whole process of finding grant information (much less the whole
applying process) is not easy. Countless people have posted about how
they have been given the “run-a-round”, how they couldn’t find any
information and there are even those that say they don’t exist at all!
You should take the above and turn it into your advantage and realize
that the less competition there is in applying for a/the grantthe more
chance that your application will be awarded the grant!

Rose-Grant Basics 101
http://members.aol.com/Roseb441702/grants.htm

Talk soon,
Mary

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