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

The Central Massachusetts Agency on Aging, Inc. (CMAA) received a $186,916 two-year Project Grant award from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) under the AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Demonstration Program (CFDA 94.017). The grant will fund CMAA's proposal to engage 360 AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers over the grant period to promote family involvement, service learning, and mentoring in Central Massachusetts. Volunteers will focus on education, with goals of increasing the number of students demonstrating improved academic engagement and social-emotional skills, as well as 360 children gaining school readiness skills. CNCS's $360,000 in federal funding will be supplemented by $102,632 in non-federal resources from CMAA. The grant period runs from July 1, 2022 through July 5, 2024.

Your 2022-24 statutory match requirement is 10% and your budgeted match is 22.2%. The central massachusetts agency on aging (cmaa) proposes to have 360 americorps senior volunteers who will promote family involvement, service learning, and mentoring in central massachusetts. The primary focus area of this project is education. At the end of the two-year grant period, americorps seniors volunteers will be responsible for increasing the number of students with improved academic engagement and social-emotional skills, and 360 children will demonstrate gains in school readiness. Americorps's federal investment of $360,000 will be supplemented by $102,632 in non-federal resources.