This award funds the approved 2025?26 SCP program

Federal Grant Award Summary

The Corporation for National and Community Service's Office of Grants Management awarded Catholic Charities of Southwestern Ohio $423,976 under the AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Companion Program (CFDA 94.016) on September 9, 2025, for a project period extending through June 30, 2028. This Project Grant funds the organization's 2025–26 Senior Companion Program activities, which engage volunteers aged 55 and older—particularly those with limited incomes—to provide supportive services to vulnerable adults with special needs in the Cincinnati metropolitan area and surrounding Ohio regions.

The grant supports Senior Companions in delivering individualized supportive services including companionship, transportation assistance, respite care, and light household chores designed to help beneficiaries maintain dignity and independence while addressing social isolation. The award requires a 10 percent statutory match and 10 percent budgetary match from the recipient. Pre-award costs are authorized beginning July 1, 2025; however, volunteer-related pre-award expenses such as stipends, meal reimbursements, travel reimbursements, and recognition activities are not approved for funding.

Your 2025?26 statutory match is 10% and your budgetary match is 10%. You are approved for pre-award costs beginning july 1, 2025. Please note the following pre-award costs related to volunteers are not approved: ? Volunteer stipends? ? Volunteer reimbursements such as meals, travel, and recognition