This award funds the approved 2025?26 SCP program

The Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management awarded Coad Inc. $1,051,678 on September 9, 2025, under the AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Companion Program (CFDA 94.016).

The award funds the 2025–26 and 2026–27 program years for Coad's Senior Companion Program, which engages volunteers age 55 and older, particularly those with limited incomes, to provide supportive, individualized services to adults with special needs. Services focus on helping recipients maintain dignity and independence. Coad, a non-profit community development corporation based in Athens, Ohio, serves the Appalachian region.

Performance runs through June 30, 2028, in Ohio. Pre-award costs are approved beginning July 1, 2025, with the exception of volunteer stipends and volunteer reimbursements for meals, travel, and recognition. The 2025–26 program carries a statutory match requirement of 10 percent and a budgetary match of 11.62 percent; the 2026–27 program carries the same match obligations. Grant recipients must maintain financial and program records for three years from submission of the final Federal Financial Report and document that all individuals receiving compensation through the award clear a National Service Criminal History Check.

Your 2025?26 statutory match is 10% and your budgetary match is 11.62%. 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