This award funds the approved 2025?26 americorps formula program(s), as listed on the approved program and funding summary charts

The Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management awarded Puerto Rico Commonwealth of, through its PR Commission of Volunteerism and Community Service division, $6,523,469 in AmeriCorps State and National program funding on October 1, 2025, covering the 2025–26 and 2026–27 program years through September 30, 2028.

The award funds AmeriCorps member enrollment and service across multiple sub-recipient organizations serving Puerto Rico communities. Sub-recipients deploy AmeriCorps members in direct service: Municipio de Toa Baja operates ten members providing household support, medication management, meal preparation, and companionship to eligible beneficiaries; Volunteers of America Puerto Rico fields eight Community Health Workers across five affordable housing communities in Carolina, Guaynabo, and San Juan, conducting health education, care coordination, digital literacy assistance, and counseling; Municipio de San Juan deploys ten members on disaster risk management and emergency preparedness in low-income neighborhoods, with plans to recruit 25 additional volunteers; Instituto Psicopedagogico de Puerto Rico assigns twenty-two members to implement physical activity and recreational programming for fifty adults with intellectual disabilities in Bayamon; Compañía Para El Desarrollo Integral De La Península De Cantera places twelve members in direct service across the Cantera Peninsula community in San Juan; Centro Margarita, Inc. operates five members delivering developmental, literacy, and socio-emotional support to children and youth with developmental deficiencies in Cidra and Caguas; and Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico fields ten members conducting recreation and sports activities across ten club centers in nine municipalities.

Additional sub-recipients support complementary programming: Fundacion Sila M Calderon facilitates entrepreneurial development workshops across western and eastern regions targeting formalization of more than 100 projects; Plenitud Iniciativas Ecoeducativas members educate on adaptive forestry, resilient infrastructure construction, and food literacy; Oficina Para La Promocion Y El Desarrollo Humano delivers mental health services and psycho-educational interventions to adolescents and young adults across 16 municipalities; Friends of Puerto Rico supports K-12 educational and workforce development initiatives; Asociacion Pro Juventud Y Comunidad Barrio Palmas coordinates food distribution and workshops on opioid prevention, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and nutrition; and Accion Social de Puerto Rico distributes food backpacks and facilitates health, nutrition, and emotional well-being activities in low-income communities.

The award requires a 27.71 percent budgetary match for 2025–26 and a 30 percent match for 2026–27. This is a Project Grant assistance type.

No member may enroll prior to the approved start date of the member enrollment period. Your 2025?26 budgetary match is 27.71%.