Secondary Analyses Grants for Early Care and Education Data
HHS Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE)
Funds secondary analysis of existing datasets to answer questions about child care and early education programs funded by the Child Care and Development Fund, and to build researcher capacity to analyse and disseminate from those data.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)No dollar figure is published on the ACF project page. The page notes CCDF itself is a block grant of more than $9 billion, which is the block grant total and not an award size.
- Timing
- Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Recurring cohort-based OPRE mechanism. ACF's own page carries no due date; check Grants.gov forecasts under OPRE.
- Who can apply
- Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank, Postdoctoral
- Eligibility
- Research institutions and organisations proposing analysis of existing data relevant to CCDF goals; OPRE makes no grants to individuals or for direct services.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- ccdf · child care subsidy · secondary data analysis · early education
- Apply at
- https://acf.gov/opre/project/secondary-analyses-grants-early-care-education-data
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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