This award funds the approved 2025?26 FGP program

The Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management awarded Northeast Michigan Community Service Agency, Inc. (Nemcsa) $695,623 on September 10, 2025, under the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011) to engage volunteers ages 55 and older in one-on-one mentoring, tutoring, and educational support to children with special needs or who are academically or socially disadvantaged in schools, early education and childcare centers, and related settings in Michigan.

The award funds the approved 2025–26 and 2026–27 FGP program years with a statutory match requirement of 10 percent and a budgetary match of 10.72 percent. Pre-award costs are approved beginning July 1, 2025, except for volunteer stipends and volunteer reimbursements such as meals, travel, and recognition. Performance spans through June 30, 2028. Nemcsa, a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Greenbush, Michigan, has delivered community services across northeastern Michigan since its SAM.gov registration in April 2007, including Senior Companion Program, Head Start, and other federally funded initiatives addressing vulnerable populations including seniors, children, and low-income families.

Your 2025?26 statutory match is 10% and your budgetary match is 10.72%. 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