This award funds the approved 2025?26 FGP program

The Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management awarded Interlocal Community Action Program Inc. $667,794 on September 10, 2025, under the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011).

The award funds the Foster Grandparent Program for fiscal years 2025–26 and 2026–27, which engages volunteers aged 55 and older with limited incomes in one-on-one mentoring and tutoring to children with special needs or who are academically or socially disadvantaged. Volunteers serve an average of 20 hours per week in schools, early education and childcare centers, and other settings, providing individualized instruction based on children's specific needs and teaching parenting skills to young parents. The recipient, a non-profit community action agency based in New Castle, Indiana, serves eight counties in east central Indiana: Delaware, Fayette, Grant, Hancock, Henry, Madison, Rush, and Wayne.

Work is performed in Indiana. The period of performance runs through June 30, 2028. Pre-award costs beginning July 1, 2025, are approved; however, volunteer stipends and volunteer reimbursements for meals, travel, and recognition are not approved. The statutory match requirement is 10% for both fiscal years, with budgetary match requirements of 11.95% for 2025–26 and 11.18% for 2026–27.

Your 2025?26 statutory match is 10% and your budgetary match is 11.95%. 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