Foundation

The Indiana Economic Development Association Foundation (Foundation) has received a grant from the Duke Energy Foundation for the purpose of assisting Indiana communities in their efforts to increase childcare capacity. The Foundation will be making grants to Indiana communities to enable them to begin the process of assessing and addressing childcare gaps.

These grants are not to be applied for administration, construction, operations, or maintenance of a childcare facility but are intended to help communities better document, understand, and plan to address existing needs and gaps.

‘Innovation’ will be different for each community – don’t let it be intimidating. These grants are meant to jump-start efforts in your community to create a plan for meeting your unique needs for quality childcare. Innovation is meant to imply that you can try something that you haven’t had funds or motivation to try before. This can be hiring a consultant, conducting parent and employer focus groups, convening potential service providers, conducting an assessment of potential facilities: in short, the goal of these grants is to give communities funds and permission to try a new approach for solving an old problem.