ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
DAYCAREANDPRESCHOOLGRANTS
■ Be licensed by the Ohio Department of Education for child day care businesses
■ Be physically located in Montgomery County
■ Benefit individuals living in Montgomery County
■ Operate a childcare programlicensed by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services that has at least a three-star rating through Step Up To Quality, Ohio’s tiered quality rating and improvement system
AGRICULTUREGRANTS
■ Be physically located in Montgomery County
■ Benefit individuals living in Montgomery County
■ Be able to provide financial records to support the grant request, including reconciling and reporting the use of federal funds and tracking and reporting number of clients served and demographic information
■ Submit documentation to the Office of CARES Act, including your last two years’of Schedule F forms
■ Health care grants
■ Proposed program services must benefit individuals living in Montgomery County
■ Organization must be physically located in Montgomery County
■ Organization must be able tomeet program technical requirements, including the ability to provide financial records to support the request, including the ability to reconcile and report the use of federal funds, aswell as be able to report the number of clients served and other demographic information
OTHERGRANTSAVAILABLE
■ Grants of $10,000 remain available to small businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. More than $6.8 million in grants have been approved for small businesses since the start of the program, said Montgomery CountyAdministrator Michael Colbert.
■ Mortgage and rental assistant grants of up to $10,000 are also available to eligible county residents who experienced a loss of income after March 1 due to the pandemic. The loss of income could have been caused by a layoff, reducedwork hours, furlough or reduction in pay, according to the county.
■ The county also has a program for eligible nonprofits to receive grants up to $100,000 and another that offers grants up to $1million to qualifying educational institutions.
■ More information about all the county’s grants and instructions for applying are online atwww. mcohiocares.org.