Preschool Development Grant Birth Through Five (PDG B-5) SMART Grant

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Administration for Children and Families, is forecasting a funding opportunity for the Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five SMART Grant, aimed at supporting states and territories in making one-year investments to enhance their early care and education data infrastructure. The goal is to strengthen technological and analytical systems that enable better coordination across the mixed-delivery early childhood system, improve program quality and access, support families in making informed choices, and use actionable data to identify and respond to the needs of children from birth through age five. Applicants are expected to propose targeted, feasible projects that produce measurable results by the end of the project period and directly contribute to data-driven decision-making in early childhood programs. The grant is open to states and territories with no specific set-aside designated, and applications will be evaluated based on the potential for impactful, technology-enabled improvements in early childhood data systems. The opportunity was posted on July 2, 2026, with no specified NAICS code or type of set-aside, and funding will be administered by the Administration for Children and Families under the Department of Health and Human Services. Interested parties should direct inquiries to Richard Gonzales at the provided contact information, and additional details can be found through the official grants website listed in the solicitation. The project must focus on building scalable, sustainable systems that generate timely, reliable insights to support policy and program improvements across the birth to five continuum.