This award funds the approved 2025?26 FGP program

The Hawaii Department of Human Services Office of Youth Services received a $765,179 Project Grant award dated September 8, 2025, from the Corporation for National and Community Service's Office of Grants Management under the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011). This three-year award, extending through June 30, 2028, funds an intergenerational volunteer service initiative that engages persons aged 55 and older with limited incomes to provide direct mentoring, tutoring, and educational support to children with special needs or who are academically or socially disadvantaged. The program operates across Hawaii with volunteers serving an average of 20 hours per week in schools, early education and childcare centers, and other community settings.

Under this award, AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers deliver one-on-one services including academic tutoring, literacy instruction, mentoring, and parenting skills education to support vulnerable youth populations. The grantee is required to maintain a 10 percent statutory match and 34.61 percent budgetary match, with pre-award costs authorized beginning July 1, 2025. All grant records, including financial documentation, personnel records, and criminal history checks, must be maintained for three years following submission of the final Federal Financial Report to ensure compliance with AmeriCorps audit and oversight requirements.

Your 2025?26 statutory match is 10% and your budgetary match is 34.61%. 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