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

Your 2022?24 statutory match requirement is 10% and your budgeted match is 10.0%. This grant award begins the first year of your proposed project period of performance. The FY22 ARP grant awards 24 months of funds beginning 07/01/22 thru 6/30/24. This award action adds permanent funding to increase the stipend amount from $3.00 to $3.15 per hour and also includes a permanent administrative increase of $9,577. The community advocate resource, INC. (car) proposes to deploy 61 americorps seniors volunteers, or as they will be identified throughout this narrative as cadvocaters; who will participate in helping individuals, youth and seniors with comprehensive community stabilization and revitalization strategies to combat disparities, in the historic black community of southeast raleigh, NC through a combination of virtual/on-site podcast disaster readiness events, mentoring youth and young adults ages 14-25, and seniors assisting seniors improve their capacity for independence. The three focus areas of this project are disaster assistance, education-intergenerational programming, and aging in place. At the end of the two-year grant, americorps senior cadvocaters will be responsible for individuals reporting increase in disaster readiness, improve students' academic performance, and seniors reporting they have increase social support or improved capacity for independence. The americorps federal investment of $464,977 will be supplemented by $51,869 in-kind non-federal funds.