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

The RSVP of Allen County, Inc. received a $112,370 two-year Project Grant award under the AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Demonstration Program from the Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management. The grant will fund a program utilizing 100 AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers to develop and distribute learning kits addressing COVID-19 educational impacts, activity kits, and companionship services for isolated seniors and individuals with disabilities in five Indiana counties. Volunteers will aim to demonstrate gains in school readiness for 300 children and increased social support for 300 individuals by the end of the grant period concluding March 31, 2024. The grant award supplements a $11,260 in-kind match and will support innovative volunteer activities for older Americans, as intended under the AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Demonstration Program.

Your 2022-24 statutory match requirement is 10% and your budgeted match is 10.1%. The rsvp of allen county, INC. Proposes to have 100 americorps seniors volunteers who will develop and assemble learning kits to address covid-19 related educational losses and develop and assemble activity kits and provide companionship services to isolated seniors and individuals with disabilities in allen, blackford, huntington, JAY and whitley counties in indiana. The primary focus area of this project is healthy futures. At the end of the two-year grant, americorps seniors volunteers will be responsible for 300 children demonstrating gains in school readiness and 300 individuals reporting having increased social support. The americorps federal investment of $100,000 will be supplemented by $11,260. This award funds the approved 2022?23 SDP program. Your 2022?23 statutory match is 10% and your budgetary match is 10.1%.