OpportunityTitle: Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5) Renewal Grant
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: The following 25 states or territories are eligible to apply for funding under this funding opportunity: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Indiana, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, and Vermont.  The applicant must submit a letter on the Governor&apos;s letterhead, designating the state entity that will have responsibility for execution and administration of this grant. The required letter must include a description of why the state entity chosen is best suited to manage the grant, thereby leading to the improvement of an early childhood care and education mixed delivery system serving children from birth through age 5.  For this Renewal Grant, any state entity that is not also a state agency must be replaced by a state agency as the recipient of the federal funds. If desired by the Governor, the state agency may then subgrant with the existing state entity that previously served as the recipient of the funds for the PDG B-5 Initial Grant or may subgrant with a different entity. Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and funding under this  funding opportunity.
Description: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) jointly with the Department of Education (ED) will be soliciting applications from eligible States and Territories to carry out the renewal grant activities of the Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5). The PDG B-5 Renewal Grants seek to empower state governments to lead the way in leveraging federal, state, and local early care and education investments while developing and improving their comprehensive, statewide birth through five early childhood care and education system. These Renewal Grants seek to assist states in helping low-income and disadvantaged children enter kindergarten prepared and ready to succeed. In addition, these grants will help improve the transitions between early care and education settings and elementary schools. The overall responsibility of the PDG B-5 Renewal Grant is to assist states in the coordination of existing early childhood funding streams resulting in services being provided to more children birth through five in a mixed delivery system. States awarded a renewal grant may use a certain portion of grant funds to award subgrants to programs in a mixed delivery system across the state. SAM.gov System Alert - Entity Validation Delays: Due to high demand, SAM.gov is experiencing a considerable delay in processing entity legal business name and address validation tickets. As needed, please start the process early to avoid interruptions in application submissions. You can find SAM resources related to this process here - https://www.fsd.gov/gsafsd_sp?id=kb_article_view&amp;sysparm_article=KB0058422&amp;sys_kb_id=7bb8810ddba05990060d5425f3961912&amp;spa=1. Grants.gov Downtime - Grants.gov Going Offline: The Grants.gov system is being migrated to the cloud and will be unavailable to users for an extended period to allow for a successful transition. The Grants.gov Production System will be offline during the following period: Production System will go Offline Friday September 23, 2022 at 12:01 AM ET. Production System will go Online Thursday September 29, 2022 at 11:59 PM ET. If you are interested in this funding opportunity, you are strongly encouraged to download it and all associated attachments from Grants.gov as soon as possible so that they will be available to you during this period. For more information on what to expect, please refer to the following URL at https://grantsgovprod.wordpress.com/2022/08/08/what-to-expect-during-the-grants-gov-cloud-migration-and-extended-downtime-for-september-2022/ for details.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: richard.gonzales@acf.hhs.gov
GrantorContactText: Gonzales Richard&lt;br/&gt;richard.gonzales@acf.hhs.gov
CloseDateExplanation: Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time on the listed application due date.