This award approves funding for the 2023-24 volunteer generation fund ARP program described in the approved program narrative and budget

Volunteer Tennessee received a $1.938 million Project Grant award from the Corporation for National and Community Service under the AmeriCorps Volunteer Generation Fund (CFDA 94.021) program. The three-year award running from March 1, 2023 to February 28, 2026 will support increasing volunteer recruitment and expanding the use of volunteers through high-quality volunteer management practices. As the state service commission, Volunteer Tennessee will provide capacity building to over 500 volunteer connector organizations across Tennessee to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and program scale in addressing inequities in education, healthy futures, and economic opportunity, as well as pandemic response and community resiliency. Under subawards, Hands On Nashville and Volunteer Memphis will build volunteer management capacity for nearly 200 organizations and engage over 5,500 new disaster response and issue-focused volunteers. Hands On Nashville will support economic opportunities, education, diversity and inclusion programs, while Volunteer Memphis focuses on emergency preparedness and diversity training. The Volunteer Generation Fund aims to strengthen nonprofit capacity for increased volunteer recruitment and retention to meet critical community needs.

The purpose of this grant is to increase volunteer recruitment and expand the use of volunteers and service learning to remove inequities in the areas of education, healthy futures, and economic opportunity, in addition to pandemic response and community resiliency. By performing the following high level activities: high-quality volunteer recruitment, training and management practices, this will benefit volunteer connector organizations through capacity building. The general expected outcome includes increasing effectiveness, efficiency and/or program scale/reach. Your 2023-24 regulatory match is 50.0%, and your budgetary match is 50.0%.