GEER ROUND 3

Childcare Centers receiving funds:

1. Blessed Beginnings - $122,627.96

2. Genesis & Light Center - $169,680.00
3. Kiddy Karrousel – received two grants totaling  $72,720.00
4. Learning Tree Children’s Academy – received two grants totaling $165,640.00
5. Funtime Preschool - $111,504.00
6. Rose of Sharon – received two grants totaling $171,700.00

Other educational entities receiving funds:

1. Walter Anderson Museum of Art - $13,635.00 (extended project from Round 1)

2. Waterford Institute - $124,451.53 – They will be working with 100 licensed childcare centers to
implement Childcare Providers Ready to Learn Path. 
3. Mississippi State University Extension - $29,093.50 – providing access to training for early
childhood providers
4. Boys & Girls Club of Jackson County - $145,427.94 – Project will be offering virtual and in-person
new and unique clubhouse activities called Making Magic. 
5. University of Southern Mississippi – received two grants totaling $469,380.72.  The Children’s
Center for Communication & Development serving at-risk children…specifically those with
developmental delays. 
6. Delta Health Alliance - $472,680.00 – collaborating with school districts to provide supervised
spaces for children and families who have lost access to in-person schooling
7. Boys & Girls Club of Gulf Coast - $727,200.00 – offering pre-k services to Harrison and Hancock
counties to prepare more low-income children for the transition to kindergarten.
8. Boys & Girls Club of Central MS - $556,127.00 (extended project from Round 1)
9. North MS Education Consortium - $110,076.00 – Partnership between the Graduate Center for
the Study of Early Learning, MSU’s Social Science Research Center, and UMMC;  Project ECHO
(Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) for childcare providers will respond to the
impact of COVID-19 related social emotional trauma by increasing childcare provider knowledge
about social emotional health and behavioral management techniques.