This award funds the approved 2025-2026 americorps national direct program

Red Cloud Indian School, Inc. (doing business as Holy Rosary Mission) received a $771,792 AmeriCorps State and National (CFDA 94.006) grant awarded by the Corporation for National and Community Service's Office of Grants Management on August 1, 2025, for the 2025-2026 program year. The award funds the AmeriCorps National Direct Program, which deploys AmeriCorps members in full-time or part-time community service positions addressing unmet needs within the Lakota community on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Services are delivered across multiple priority areas including education, environmental stewardship, economic opportunity, disaster response, and public health.

Under this grant, Red Cloud Indian School recruits, trains, and manages AmeriCorps members who provide evidence-based community service interventions through the organization and its designated community partners. Members receive living allowances and other benefits during their service terms and are eligible to earn Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards upon successful completion of service, which can be applied to higher education expenses or qualified student loan repayment. The award carries a 25% regulatory match requirement and a 48.38% budgetary match requirement, with a project completion date of July 31, 2028.

No member may enroll prior to the approved start date of the member enrollment period. Your 2025-2026 regulatory match is 25% and your budgetary match is 48.38%.