This award funds the approved 2026?29 SDP program

The Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management awarded Phoenix Indian Center $673,348 on July 1, 2026, under the AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Demonstration Program (CFDA 94.017) for the period July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2029. The award funds deployment of volunteers age 55 and older to deliver culturally relevant services within urban Native American populations in Arizona. The award represents a $339,169 increase to baseline funding with no statutory or budgetary matching requirements. Phoenix Indian Center is an American Indian-owned nonprofit organization based in Phoenix that delivers employment and training services, youth development, suicide prevention programming, and cultural preservation initiatives to urban American Indian populations across Maricopa County and the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. The Senior Demonstration Program authorizes innovative projects demonstrating how older American volunteers can contribute to new objectives or national priorities, providing grantees flexibility to develop creative programming that addresses community needs without constraints applied to traditional AmeriCorps Seniors program models.

Your approved statutory match waiver is 0%, and your budgetary match is 0%. This award was approved for an increase in baseline funding of $339,169. The new baseline funding for this grant is $673,348.