This award funds the approved 2025?26 FGP program

The City of Russellville received a $1.136 million Project Grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service under the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011), awarded September 5, 2025, with completion by June 30, 2028. This award funds intergenerational volunteer service initiatives for the 2025-26, 2026-27, and 2027-28 program years, with forward funding of $371,188 allocated for each of the latter two years. The program engages volunteers aged 55 and older with limited incomes to provide one-on-one mentoring, tutoring, and intensive academic and social supports to children with special needs or disadvantages in school, early education, and childcare settings.

Under this award, AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers serve approximately 20 hours weekly delivering individualized tutoring based on children's specific needs, mentoring activities, and parenting skills instruction to young parents. The grantee is required to maintain a 10 percent statutory match and 10 percent budgetary match for the award period. Pre-award costs became eligible beginning July 1, 2025, with the exception that volunteer stipends, reimbursements for meals and travel, and recognition expenses are not approved expenditures under the program guidelines.

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