N.Y. Social Services Law Section 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.

Source: Section 410-CC — Start up grants for child day care, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/SOS/410-CC (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jun. 21, 2025).

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