Archive for the "Funding" Category

Southington Children, Families Benefit as Community Foundation Awards More than $230,000 in Year-End Grants

Posted on December 21st, 2016

Early Childhood Collaborative of Southington Among Major Awardees The Early Childhood Collaborative of Southington has been awarded up to $30,000 in grant dollars by the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain to support staffing, infrastructure and expenses associated with implementation of the Community Plan for Southington’s Young Children. The grant award, from the Foundation’s First […]

Math Conceptual Development Kits for Southington Childcare Providers

Posted on September 13th, 2016

Thanks to support by the Southington Education Foundation, Math Conceptual Development kits have been purchased for every family day care provider, nursery school and child care center in Southington. These math kits were conceptualized and created as a partnership between the Southington Public Schools (SPS) Math Coordinator’s Office and the Early Childhood Collaborative of Southington […]

Chair of ECCS Wins 2016 CACFP Mini-Grant for Breastfeeding Support

Posted on July 15th, 2016

The Chair of the Early Childhood Collaborative of Southington (ECCS), Michelle Slimak, was recently awarded a mini-grant by the T&L Foundation for Child Care Information. The grant allows her to offer Family Child Care families a relaxing place to breastfeed their infants in her program. Michelle was the only Connecticut recipient and was selected out of […]

ECCS Receives Generous Grant from the Main Street Foundation

Posted on January 24th, 2015

Press Release January 2015 The Early Childhood Collaborative of Southington (ECCS) was recently awarded a grant of $4,500 from the Women and Girls’ Fund of the Main Street Community Foundation to support five Southington family childcare providers in their pursuit of family childcare accreditation from the National Association of Family Child Care (NAFCC). Currently, in […]