The Growth Fund is a program to help nonprofit child care centers become stronger, improve quality and serve more families.  The Growth Fund combines grants with the business help child care center directors need to identify and tackle their most critical business challenges.  We select nonprofit child care centers to participate in the Growth Fund through a competitive process, with eligibility based on serving children from low and moderate income families, stable operations and fulltime/full year programming.  

If you are chosen for the class of five centers, you will receive $7,500 to develop a business plan, $25,000 over two years to implement it and ongoing consulting. 

If your center wants to identify your most critical business challenges and get the resources to tackle them, consider applying to Class 5 of First Children's Minnesota Growth Fund.  Please download the Minnesota Growth Fund Class 5 Guidelines and Application here. Applications must be postmarked by June 30, 2010.

We will be holding three informational meetings.  Click here for the meeting schedule.  For more information, please contact Mara O'Neill at 612-279-6502 or mara@firstchildrensfinance.org.