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

The Corporation for National and Community Service's Office of Grants Management awarded $290,906 to the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska under the AmeriCorps State and National program (CFDA 94.006) on October 1, 2025. This planning grant, designated as the 2025-2026 AmeriCorps Native Nations National Direct Planning Grant, funds a one-year planning phase (through September 30, 2026) to enable the tribe to prepare for submission and implementation of a full cost AmeriCorps program grant award. The tribe is required to provide a budgetary match of 19.16%, with regulatory match requirements waived for this planning cycle.

The planning grant provides resources for the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska to conduct comprehensive planning activities necessary to develop a competitive full-scale AmeriCorps program. Through this planning process, the tribe will identify community service needs, design evidence-based or evidence-informed service interventions, establish recruitment and management systems for AmeriCorps members, and develop the organizational infrastructure required to deploy AmeriCorps members in full-time or part-time service positions. Upon successful completion of planning activities and subsequent approval of a full program grant application, the tribe will be positioned to engage AmeriCorps members in addressing identified community priorities, with members receiving living allowances and the opportunity to earn Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards upon service completion.

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 19.16%.