This award funds the approved 2025?26 FGP program

The Corporation for National and Community Service, Office of Grants Management, awarded $1,525,638 in Project Grant funding to DR Piper Center For Social Services Inc. on September 5, 2025, to support the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (FGP, CFDA 94.011) through June 30, 2028. This award funds the 2025-26 program year with forward funding of $464,471 each for 2026-27 and 2027-28. The grantee is required to maintain a 10% statutory match and 17.99% budgetary match for the initial program year, with a 10% statutory match requirement for subsequent years.

Under this grant, DR Piper Center will deploy volunteers aged 55 and older with limited incomes to provide one-on-one mentoring, tutoring, and supportive services to children with special needs or academic and social disadvantages across Southwest Florida. Foster Grandparent Program volunteers serve approximately 20 hours per week in schools, early education and childcare centers, and other community settings, delivering individualized tutoring, mentoring, and parenting skills instruction. The program serves as an intergenerational initiative addressing critical community needs while engaging senior volunteers in meaningful national service.

Your 2025?26 statutory match is 10% and your budgetary match is 17.99%. 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