This award funds the approved 2022?24 ARP senior demonstration program grant

This two-year, $168,092 Project Grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management funds Literacy New Jersey Inc.'s 2022-2024 Senior Demonstration Program. The grant supports 150 AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers providing free tutoring and small-group literacy instruction to adult students in 12 New Jersey counties. Volunteers will help students improve reading, writing, English language, and job skills to obtain employment, job-related credentials, or a high school equivalency certificate. The AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Demonstration Program (CFDA 94.017) aims to engage older Americans in volunteer activities that address local community needs. The $150,000 federal investment is supplemented by $18,892 in non-federal matching funds. Literacy New Jersey will implement programming from April 1, 2022 through March 31, 2024 focused on economic opportunity as the primary outcome for adult literacy students.

Your 2022-24 statutory match requirement is 10% and your budgeted match is 10.8%. Literacy new jersey proposes to have 150 americorps seniors volunteers who will serve adult literacy students by providing free tutoring and small- group instruction in 12 new jersey counties: atlantic, cape may, burlington, gloucester, hudson, mercer, middlesex, monmouth, coean, sussex, union, and warren. The primary focus area of this project is economic opportunity. At the end of the two-year grant, americorps seniors volunteers will be responsible for having helped adult literacy students improve their reading and writing skills and their ability to speak and understand english, so they can secure employment or a better job, obtain job-related skills, or prepare for and earn their high school equivalency (HSE) credential (or GED). The americorps federal investment of $ $150,000 will be supplemented by $18,892 in non-federal resources.