The Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management awarded Community Teamwork Inc. $1.21 million under the AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Companion Program (SCP) 94.016 federal grant program. The three-year project grant beginning July 1, 2022 will fund Community Teamwork Inc.'s approved 2022-23 SCP program, with a 10% statutory match and 10.1% budgetary match required. The funding increases the stipend amount for senior volunteers from $3.00 to $3.15 per hour and includes...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Community Living awarded the City of New York Department for the Aging Division a 3-year, $2,345,748 Project Grant under the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011) to engage senior volunteers aged 55 and older in providing tutoring, mentoring, and supportive services for children with special needs or those facing educational challenges. The grant supports the Department for the Aging's FY 2024-2027...
This Project Grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management provides $980,826 to Lutheran Social Services of Upstate New York, Inc. to support the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (FGP) from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2025. The FGP, authorized under the CFDA 94.011 program, engages volunteers aged 55 and over to provide supportive services to children with special or exceptional needs. Specifically, this award will fund Lutheran Social...
This $627,235 Project Grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service's AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (FGP, CFDA #94.011) funds Community Teamwork Inc.'s approved 2022-23 FGP program. The award begins the first year of a proposed three-year project period from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. It increases the volunteer stipend from $3.00 to $3.15 per hour and provides $6,123 in additional administrative funds, adjusting the total federal funding. The FGP aims to...
This Project Grant award from the Corporation for National and Community Service's Office of Grants Management provides $124,741.00 in funding for the Buffalo Federation of Neighborhood Center to deliver the AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Companion Program (CFDA 94.016) from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027. The Senior Companion Program engages volunteers aged 55 and older to provide companionship, transportation assistance, respite care, and light chores to homebound seniors and individuals with...
This $260,613 federal Project Grant award to Agingnext Inc., doing business as Community Senior Services, funds the organization's 2024-2025 Senior Companion Program (SCP) under the AmeriCorps Seniors program (CFDA 94.016). Through the SCP, Agingnext Inc. will engage volunteers aged 55 and older to provide companionship, transportation assistance, respite care, and light chores to homebound seniors and individuals with disabilities. This helps enable these vulnerable populations to remain...
This Project Grant award from the Corporation for National and Community Service's AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011) provides $630,776.00 to the Aiken / Barnwell Counties Community Action Agency in South Carolina to support the organization's FGP program in the 2024-2025 fiscal year. The award funds the placement of senior volunteers aged 55 and older to serve as tutors and mentors for children with special needs or facing educational challenges in schools, Head Start...
The Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management awarded the Jewish Family Service Agency of Central New Jersey a two-year, $414,093 Project Grant under the AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Demonstration Program (CFDA 94.017). The grant will fund 191 AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers to provide social support services to older adults living alone, food assistance to low-income residents, and reading support to elementary school students in underserved communities in Union...
This three-year, $1.3 million AmeriCorps Seniors Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) 94.002 project grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management will support Friends of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program of Suffolk, Inc. in deploying approximately 800 unduplicated volunteers to address community needs on Long Island, New York through 2023. Primary services will focus on Healthy Futures initiatives to help the aging population access...
This two-year, $1.056 million Project Grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service's AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Demonstration Program (CFDA 94.017) funds the Northland Foundation's 2022-2024 ARP Senior Demonstration Program. The Foundation will engage 500 AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers to provide tutoring, out-of-school-time activities, and summer learning programs for K-12 children and youth across rural Northeastern Minnesota. By the end of the grant period, volunteers will...