This award funds the approved 2025?26 FGP program

The Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management awarded $895,868 to the Community Action Agency of South Central Michigan on September 10, 2025, under the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011).

The award funds the Foster Grandparent Program for program years 2025–26 and 2026–27, supporting an intergenerational service model in which volunteers aged 55 and older provide one-on-one mentoring, tutoring, and support to children with special or exceptional needs or who are academically or socially disadvantaged. Volunteers serve approximately 20 hours per week in schools, early education and childcare centers, and other community settings where children are present, delivering individualized tutoring and parenting skills instruction to young parents.

The period of performance runs through June 30, 2028, with place of performance in Michigan. Pre-award costs are approved beginning July 1, 2025, except for volunteer stipends and volunteer reimbursements (meals, travel, and recognition). The recipient's statutory match requirement is 10 percent; budgetary match is 20.33 percent for both program years.

The assistance type is a project grant.

Your 2025?26 statutory match is 10% and your budgetary match is 20.33%. 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