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2016 CACFP Week Mini-Grantees Announced

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Mini-Grant Program

Eligible Grantees?  The Child Care Community

  • For individuals: Family child care providers and child care centers, tribal child care
  • For organizations: Child care associations, CACFP Sponsors, Resource and Referrals, Child Care Centers, 501c3’s focused on health and wellness for children

Purpose of Program - For Individuals

The program is focused on providing monetary assistance for implementation of best practices and/or policies for nutrition, health, and wellness in child care environments.  Specifically for those individuals who are regularly overlooked as eligible applicants for grant funds.

There are a plethora of existing materials to engage child care providers in conversations to use best practices and create policies but there are monetary roadblocks.  It is part of T&L Foundation’s mission to alleviate these roadblocks.  Some examples below: 
  • The Child and Adult Care Food Program encourages family style meals – we would provide a grant to assist the family child care provider or child care center with utensils and setting up the environment for family style meals.
  • There are many informational resources to educate providers about the importance of physical activity in the child care setting.  For example a self-assessment from Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (Nap Sacc) encourages family child care providers to have 6-7 types of portable play equipment, i.e., jump ropes, wagons, big dump trucks, tricycles, scooters, ribbons, hula hoops, balls bean bags, portable tunnels, etc.  T&L Foundation would provide a mini-grant to providers to purchase the appropriate equipment to meet the best practices suggested. 
  • Breastfeeding in Child Care – assist providers as they encourage breastfeeding with support for moms, nice areas to pump or breastfeed the child, storage and sanitation supplies.

Purpose of Program - For Organizations

The program is focused on providing monetary assistance to enable organizations to educate and/or help providers implement best practices/policies (preferably, but not required, using resources which have already been created).  Some examples below:
  • Modify existing resources by updating them, changing the format/wording so the audience said organization is trying to reach identifies with it, change it to suit specific programs.
  • Trainings – outreach materials and ancillary materials during training which would help the provider implement what they learned at the training.
  • Outreach and education materials – modify existing community materials to speak specifically to the program doing the outreach.
  • Supplemental materials/training – provide supplemental funds to CACFP Sponsors to include a physical fitness/screen time education during CACFP monitoring visits
  • Enable local child care associations to implement a health and wellness education/outreach program for their members and potential members.
  • Home
    • Stay Informed
    • About >
      • Our Board and Advisors
      • 501(c)(3) Federal Exempt Letter
      • Press Releases and Media Kit
  • 2020 CACFP Challenge
    • Rules and Q&A's
  • Partnerships
    • GoSmart
    • Food Access for Child Care
  • Fundraising
    • Sips and Strokes >
      • Summer Sips and Strokes Sponsorship
      • 2016 Summer Sips and Strokes
      • 2015 Summer Sips and Strokes
    • Be My Healthy Valentine Donation
  • Programs
    • Mini-Grant Program >
      • 2016 CACFP Mini-Grant Awardees
    • Education and Outreach
    • Partnership and Prize
  • Information
    • Childhood Obesity
    • What Is CACFP?