This award funds the approved 2025-2026 americorps native nations national direct planning grant

The Shawnee Tribe received a $191,446 AmeriCorps State and National (CFDA 94.006) planning grant awarded by the Corporation for National and Community Service's Office of Grants Management on October 1, 2025. This one-year National Direct Planning Grant, which concludes September 30, 2026, funds the Shawnee Tribe's planning activities to prepare for a full-cost AmeriCorps program grant award in subsequent years. As a planning grant, the award supports strategic development and organizational preparation necessary to establish a comprehensive AmeriCorps service program, with no regulatory match requirements and zero budgetary match obligations.

The planning phase will enable the Shawnee Tribe to design and structure an AmeriCorps program that deploys service members to address unmet community needs within the tribe's jurisdiction in Oklahoma. Upon successful planning and future program implementation, AmeriCorps members would serve full-time or part-time positions in priority service areas while receiving living allowances and benefits, and upon completion, would earn Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards applicable to higher education expenses or qualified student loan repayment. This planning grant represents a foundational investment in the tribe's capacity to develop evidence-based community service interventions aligned with AmeriCorps program standards.

The purpose of this grant is to allow for planning to prepare for a full cost americorps program grant award. Planning grant programs may only operate for one year. Your 2025-2026 regulatory match is waived and your budgetary match is 0%.