This award funds the approved 2025?26 FGP program

County of New Hanover received a $748,756 Project Grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service on September 5, 2025, under the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011). The award funds an intergenerational service program through June 30, 2028, with forward-funded amounts of $209,429 allocated for both the 2026-27 and 2027-28 program years. The program engages volunteers aged 55 and older with limited incomes to provide one-on-one mentoring, tutoring, and intensive academic and social support services to children with special needs or disadvantages in schools, early childhood education centers, and childcare settings throughout North Carolina.

Under this award, AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers serve approximately 20 hours per week delivering individualized tutoring, mentoring, and parenting skills instruction tailored to each child's specific educational and developmental needs. The grantee is required to maintain a 10 percent statutory match and a 25.48 percent budgetary match for the 2025-26 program year, with a 10 percent statutory match for subsequent years. Pre-award costs became effective July 1, 2025, with the exception of volunteer-related stipends, reimbursements for meals and travel, and recognition payments, which are not approved under this award.

Your 2025?26 statutory match is 10% and your budgetary match is 25.48%. 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