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Maintaining Your Child Care Facility Investments Training: April 4 Maintenance of the physical environment will help keep your high-quality child care space safe, healthy, and in good repair; protect and extend the life of your investments; prevent costly issues that may arise when maintenance is deferred; and allow you to save and budget well in

City of Providence Early Learning Infrastructure Support Program Round 2 Now Open Round 2 of the City of Providence Early Learning Infrastructure Support Program opened on March 4. This program offers a competitive pool of grants to expand access to high quality early learning facilities across Providence. For Round 2, a total of $295,000 is

LISC 2024 Child Care Facilities Planning Grant Program In partnership with the Rhode Island Department of Human Services, LISC will be administering $500k in grant funding for predevelopment and feasibility activities to develop, expand, and/or improve early childhood facilities in Rhode Island. Grant-funded planning work could include hiring professionals for the following: Architectural design services

A Year in RICCELFF As we come to the close of another year, it’s time to reflect on all that we’ve accomplished together in 2023. While we recognize there is more work to be done to support Rhode Island’s child care infrastructure in 2024, looking back at this past year we are proud to share

Building a Better Business – Capital Campaigns Often, the biggest challenge to developing or improving a child care facility is raising enough money to pay for it. Many nonprofit organizations needing a new or improved facility carry out a “capital campaign” – an organized effort to raise a substantial amount of one-time funding to cover