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

This $321,089 Project Grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management funds the Blount County Community Action Agency, Inc. to deliver the AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Demonstration Program (CFDA 94.017) from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024. Under the grant, 147 AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers supervised by the Agency will install five temporary aluminum wheelchair ramps and construct 70 permanent wooden ADA-compliant ramps for low-income older adults and individuals with disabilities across Blount, Loudon, and Monroe counties in Tennessee. The Agency will provide $27,235 in matching funds above the required 10% statutory match. The ramp building effort aims to improve health outcomes in the target communities under the grant's primary focus area of Healthy Futures.

Your 2022-24 statutory match requirement is 10% and your budgeted match is 15.6%. The blount county community action agency proposes to have 147 americorps seniors volunteers who will install temporary wheelchair aluminum ramps and build permanent ADA-compliant wooden ramps in blount, loudon, and monroe counties (tennessee). 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 installing five temporary ramps and building 70 permanent ramps for low-income older adults and those with disabilities. The americorps federal investment of $146,927 will be supplemented by $27,235.00.