Specifications include, but are not limited to: The City of Burlington’s Innovation & Technology Department and Community & Economic Development Office (CEDO) seek the services of qualified consultants and/or nonprofit organizations to initiate and assist in administering the Early Learning Initiative (ELI) Scholarship Program, an effort to increase access to high-quality child care for low income Burlington children through the provision of scholarships and the creation of additional spots in high-quality childcare programs in Burlington for children from birth to three years old. Developing a process to engage eligible high-quality child care centers; Identifying potential spaces for scholarship recipients; Providing feedback on the scholarship application process; Disbursing the funding on the appropriate timeline; Monitoring the utilization of the awarded spots by scholarship recipients; and Design a plan for a unified waitlist for high-quality childcare centers in Burlington and possibly those in surrounding communities to be presented at the end of year one.
