Assistance Listing: 94.006
Purpose
AmeriCorps awards grants to organizations to implement
programs that utilize AmeriCorps members to engage in
evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions to
strengthen rural and urban communities.
For this funding round, AmeriCorps will prioritize
projects with a focus on:
- Organizations serving communities with concentrated
poverty, rural communities, tribal communities, and those
serving historically underrepresented and underserved
individuals, including but not limited to communities of
color, immigrants and refugees, people with disabilities,
people who identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ community,
people with arrest and/or conviction records, and
religious minorities - Implementing programs for or expand access to high-quality youth mental health and
substance use recovery services and prepare AmeriCorps members to enter
behavioral health careers - Veterans and military families, caregivers, and
survivors - Promoting environmental stewardship to help communities (especially underserved
households and communities) to be more resilient - Programs that provide additional benefits to
AmeriCorps members aimed at enhancing member experience
and bolstering member recruitment and retention such as
paying more than the minimum living allowance,
transportation, housing, food - Programs that create workforce pathways for
AmeriCorps members, including deliberate training,
certifications, and hiring preferences or support - Faith-based organizations
- Community-based programs that enhance and expand
services to second chance youth and/or engage those youth
as AmeriCorps members - Programs that support civic bridgebuilding programs
and projects to reduce polarization and community
divisions - Programs focused on implementing or expanding access
to high-quality early learning and those that prepare
AmeriCorps members to enter early learning careers
Eligibility
Entities eligible to apply include:
- Nonprofit organizations
- Institutions of higher education
- Local governments
- Tribes
- State service commissions
- States and territories
AmeriCorps encourages organizations that have never
received AmeriCorps funding to apply.
Geographic coverage
Nationwide and U.S. territories
Amount of funding
AmeriCorps grants can be awarded on a cost reimbursement
or fixed amount basis. See the
application instructions for complete details and
award amounts.
A first-time successful applicant is required to match
24% for the first 3-year funding period. Starting with
year 4, the match requirement gradually increases every
year to 30% by year 10. A table is provided in the
application instructions.
Application process
Links to additional guidance and the
application instructions are available on the
program website.
Single-state applicant deadlines to State and Territory
Commissions may be significantly before the federal
deadlines, so prospective state applicants should contact
the commission in the state or territory where they
intend to apply as early as possible. A list of
State Commission contacts is available
on the program website.
Applicants that are federally recognized tribes, in South Dakota, American Samoa, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the
U.S. Virgin Islands, or planning to operate in more than one state or territory should apply directly to AmeriCorps.
Potential applicants should contact americorpsgrants@americorps.gov
for additional guidance.
Applicant webinars:
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American Indian or Alaska Native · Children and youth · Community and economic development · Community and faith-based initiatives · Community engagement and volunteerism · Environmental health · Families · Health disparities · Human services · Immigrants · LGBTQI+ · People with disabilities · Poverty · Public health · Racial and ethnic groups · Self-sufficiency · Veterans
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