This award funds the approved 2025?26 FGP program

Positive Maturity, Inc. received a $453,777 Project Grant award from the Office of Grants Management on September 5, 2025, under the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (FGP, CFDA 94.011) to support the 2025-2026 program year through June 30, 2028. The organization will recruit, train, and deploy senior volunteers aged 55 and older with limited incomes to provide direct, one-on-one intergenerational mentoring, tutoring, and educational support services to children with special needs or who are academically or socially disadvantaged across multiple Alabama counties. Volunteers will commit an average of 20 hours per week delivering services in schools, Head Start programs, childcare centers, and other community settings.

The program addresses dual objectives by creating meaningful volunteer engagement opportunities for limited-income seniors while filling critical educational and developmental support gaps for vulnerable children. Specific services include academic tutoring, literacy instruction, mentoring, parenting skills education to young parents, and developmental support for children with disabilities. The award requires a 10.0 percent statutory match and an 11.05 percent budgetary match from the grantee, with pre-award costs authorized beginning July 1, 2025, excluding volunteer stipends and volunteer-related reimbursements for meals, travel, and recognition.

Your 2025?26 statutory match is 10.0% and your budgetary match is 11.05%. 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