FY 2025 Preschool Development Grant Birth Through Five (PDG B-5) Systems-Building Grant
Status: Open
Posted date: July 22, 2024
Archive date: December 17, 2025
Opportunity ID: 355578
Opportunity number: HHS-2025-ACF-ECD-TP-0016
Opportunity category: Discretionary
Agency name: Administration for Children and Families
Agency code: HHS-ACF
Award floor: $500,000
Award ceiling: $12,500,000
Cost sharing required: Yes
Funding Instrument Types
- Grant
Category of Funding Activity
- Income Security and Social Services
Eligible Applicants
- Others
- State governments
Categories (use these for quoted searches)
- agency_code:hhs_acf
- category_of_funding_activity:income_security_and_social_services
- cost_sharing_or_matching_requirement:true
- eligible_applicants:others
- eligible_applicants:state_governments
- funding_instrument_type:grant
- opportunity_category:discretionary
- status:open
The Office of Early Childhood Development within the Administration for Children and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services will be soliciting applications from eligible states and territories to carry out the Systems-Building Grant activities of the Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5) program. These PDG B-5 awards will support states and territories to build systems that strengthen early care and education (ECE) programs and increase parent access within a mixed delivery system based on a comprehensive, statewide birth to five needs assessment and strategic plan. Funding with be targeted to maximize parent choice and knowledge of the early care and education (ECE) mixed delivery system; support sharing of best practices among ECE provider to improve collaboration and efficiency of programs; and improve the quality of ECE programs.