This award funds the approved 2026?29 SDP program

The Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management awarded Cherokee County Health Services Council $1,407,011 under the AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Demonstration Program (CFDA 94.017) on July 1, 2026, for the period through June 30, 2029. The award funds deployment of older volunteers age 55 and older to address emerging community needs in the Oklahoma City area. The funding represents a baseline increase of $657,011 with zero statutory match and zero budgetary match requirements. Work is performed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Senior Demonstration Program authorizes AmeriCorps Seniors to invest in innovative projects demonstrating how older American volunteers may contribute to new community objectives or national priorities, allowing recipients flexibility to develop new ideas and creative programming that addresses community needs without constraints applied to traditional AmeriCorps Seniors' program models. Grantees may reduce social isolation and enhance civic engagement services by utilizing a variety of volunteer opportunities and workforce options.

Your approved statutory match waiver is 0%, and your budgetary match is 0%. This award was approved for an increase in baseline funding of $657,011. The new baseline funding for this grant is $1,407,011.