Project Grant 13VSPWA003

The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) awarded Family & Community Services, Inc. a $2,250,826 Project Grant under the AmeriCorps Seniors Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP, CFDA 94.002) to address root causes of poverty through senior volunteer service from April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2024. The grantee will engage an estimated 736 unduplicated RSVP volunteers in 15 Ohio counties to serve in economic opportunity, education, and healthy futures initiatives. Volunteers...

Chicanos POR La Causa, Inc. (CPLC) received an $800,000 Community Economic Development (CED) award from the Administration for Children and Families' Community Services Block Grant Discretionary Awards program (CFDA 93.570), effective September 30, 2025, through September 29, 2028. Under this award, CPLC provides a loan to Friedman Recycling Company (FRC), a local waste management and recycling business in Phoenix, Arizona, to finance operational capital and expand business operations. The...

The Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management awarded Housing Partnership Inc., doing business as Community Partners, a $186,975 Project Grant under the AmeriCorps Volunteers In Service to America (VISTA) program (CFDA 94.013). The grant will support a Community Partners of South Florida AmeriCorps VISTA project through August 2023. Ten VISTA members and one lead will perform community outreach, service expansion in underserved neighborhoods, and leadership...

The Corporation for National and Community Service awarded Lead For America a $9.3 million project grant under the AmeriCorps State and National program (CFDA 94.006) to support 65 AmeriCorps members providing capacity building services from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. The AmeriCorps members will build organizational capacity, increase meaningful community engagement, and establish recruitment infrastructure for young leaders and civic entrepreneurs in rural, tribal, and low-wealth urban...

This $185,133 three-year AmeriCorps Seniors Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) Project Grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service will support volunteer engagement through the South Georgia Partnership to End Homelessness, Inc. Approximately 120 volunteers age 55 and older will provide services focused on health, education, and ending homelessness in 18 southeast Georgia counties. Volunteers will assist food pantries and soup kitchens, deliver home meals, tutor...

The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) program (CFDA 93.569), administered by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Community Services, awarded Louisiana Workforce Commission $12,077,068 in formula grant funding effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027. This award supports comprehensive antipoverty and community services initiatives designed to reduce poverty, revitalize low-income communities, and empower low-income families and individuals to achieve economic...

The Corporation for National and Community Service awarded Hope Southern In Inc. a $501,364 Project Grant under the AmeriCorps Seniors Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP, CFDA 94.002) to support volunteer activities from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024. An estimated 700 volunteers in Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson and Scott counties in southern Indiana will serve in outcome-focused assignments providing services like meal preparation assistance, transportation for homebound...

This $155,453 project grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service's AmeriCorps VISTA program (CFDA 94.013) will support Village Community Services in delivering poverty alleviation services in Snohomish County, Washington from April 2023 through August 2024. The grant funds capacity building for community sites and job training, healthcare access, and healthy community development assistance for low-income individuals, including those experiencing homelessness, opioid addiction...

The Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management awarded Amigos De Las Americas $219,319.86 under the AmeriCorps Volunteers In Service to America (VISTA) federal grant program (CFDA 94.013) to support the 2022-23 VISTA Support Program Project Grant. The grant will fund Amigos De Las Americas' efforts from January 16, 2022 through January 14, 2023 to alleviate poverty by engaging individuals in a year of full-time national service with community organizations and...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Office of Community Services awarded $800,000 in Community Economic Development (CED) funding under the Community Services Block Grant Discretionary Awards program (CFDA 93.570) to the Coalition for Responsible Community Development (CRCD) on September 30, 2025, for a three-year project period ending September 29, 2028. CRCD will expand its social enterprise subsidiary, CRCD Enterprises, to create full-time employment in the lead abatement and construction...