Happy Holidays from all of us at LISC! This season is a time for reflecting—on the accomplishments of the year gone by, and on our hopes for the year to come. Thank you to all the wonderful partners, funders and friends who make our work possible. And here’s to a prosperous and happy New Year!
We would love to know what YOU would like to learn about! Please take a moment to fill out this survey so that we can help provide you with the most relevant training for you and your early learning center. Anyone who takes the survey will be automatically entered in a drawing for a chance
Many of the recent funding and technical assistance requests we received have been related to group size and maintaining a minimum of a 4’-0” high separation between classrooms per DCYF child care licensing regulation. We’d like to take this opportunity to highlight some of the different ways this has been accomplished with our support and
The first day of winter is less than a month away! With winter comes a whole new set of playground safety challenges. Here are a few things to keep in mind: Pay extra attention to things like scarves, long ties on jackets or other loose string-type things on children’s clothing. These items can become stuck
Update on the Race to the Top Early Learning Facilities Grants There were 86 applicants and over $3.1M in requests for the final Wave 5 of Early Learning Facility Grants. Decisions on Wave 5 grants are expected be made by the last week of November, 2015, with official awards being made in early December, 2015.
When DCYF came to re-measure Beautiful Beginnings in the fall of 2014, it was determined that two of the preschool classrooms were a few square feet short of having enough space to be a fully occupied classroom of 18 children. By accessing grant dollars and technical assistance from the RICCELFF, this 4-Star center was able
We wrote the book on financing quality, age-appropriate early childhood education facilities. Literally. Now, a LISC guide to developing new spaces has a permanent home on the website of the federal Dept. of Health and Human Services. The guide helps Head Start programs navigate the complex process of planning, budgeting and pulling together the money
With so many groups starting their construction project by working with an architect on design first, we thought it might be helpful to share some basic information about what the design process is and how working with an architect will be beneficial to your project down the road. You and Your Architect is an electronic
ANTICIPATED VOLUME OF APPLICATIONS: In Wave 4 of funding we received over $2.2 million in applications from 58 organizations. The majority of applications were excellent and qualified for funding. However, due to the very limited nature of funding we were only able to award $450,000 in grants. Therefore, 46 organizations were deferred to Wave 5,
The Last Wave of Race to the Top Early Learning Facility Grants has CLOSED Wave 5 of Early Learning Facility Grants has officially closed. Decisions on Wave 5 grants are expected to be announced by the last week of November, 2015, with official awards being made in early December, 2015. Wave 5 was the LAST
