N.Y. Social Services Law § 410-cc: Start up grants for child day care

§ 410-cc. Start up grants for child day care. The commissioner shall

provide funds to start up grants to not-for-profit organizations or

corporations for the development of new or expanded all day child day

care programs including costs related to planning, renting, renovating,

operating, and purchasing equipment. The commissioner shall establish

guidelines including, but not limited to, allowable costs, and criteria

for eligibility for grants giving preference to those child day care

providers who will, to the maximum extent feasible, target services to

households having incomes up to two hundred percent of the federal

poverty standard. The commissioner shall publicize the availability of

funds. No awards shall be granted which exceed twenty-five hundred

dollars for a new family day care provider or new group family day care

provider, and one hundred thousand dollars for a new child day care

center. Child care resource and referral agencies may receive family day

care start up grants not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars per

new provider if the agency trains such new family provider and thereby

expands the supply of family day care programs in the community. The

commissioner shall give preference to those communities which are

significantly underserved by existing programs and to those programs

which and those providers who will serve infants under two years of age.