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

This two-year, $215,000 Project Grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) Office of Grants Management funds The Welman Project's participation in the AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Demonstration Program (CFDA 94.017). The Welman Project will engage 115 AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers in facilitating hands-on science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) activities for 340 students in Tarrant County, Texas affected by COVID-19 related learning loss. By the end of the grant period in June 2024, the volunteers will be responsible for improving the academic engagement or social and emotional skills of 340 out of 400 targeted students. The $100,000 CNCS federal investment will be supplemented by $15,000 in statutory matching funds from The Welman Project.

Your 2022?24 statutory match requirement is 10% and your budgeted match is 13.0%. The welman project proposes to have 115 americorps seniors volunteers who will facilitate hands-on steam engagement for students affected by covid-19 related learning loss in tarrant county, TX. The primary focus area of this project is education. At the end of the two-year grant, americorps seniors volunteers will be responsible for 340 (out of 400) students with improved academic engagement or social and emotional skills. The americorps federal investment of $100,000 will be supplemented by $15,000.