This award funds the approved 2025?26 FGP program

The Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management awarded Catholic Social Services $1,033,473 on September 10, 2025 under the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011). The award funds the approved 2025–26 and 2026–27 Foster Grandparent Program operations, requiring a 10% statutory match and 10% budgetary match for fiscal 2025–26, and a 10% statutory match and 13.15% budgetary match for fiscal 2026–27. Pre-award costs are approved beginning July 1, 2025; volunteer stipends and volunteer reimbursements such as meals, travel, and recognition are not eligible pre-award costs.

Catholic Social Services, a Columbus, Ohio-based tax-exempt nonprofit, engages economically disadvantaged volunteers aged 55 and older to deliver one-on-one tutoring, academic support, literacy instruction, and developmental services to children with special needs and academic disadvantages in schools, Head Start programs, and childcare centers throughout Ohio. The program operates as an intergenerational volunteer service in which AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers serve an average of 20 hours per week providing mentoring and teaching parenting skills to young parents, among other activities.

The period of performance runs through June 30, 2028. Place of performance is Ohio.

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