Federal Grant Award Summary

Tri-County Community Action Agency, Inc., doing business as Gateway Community Action Partnership, received a $1,112,544 Project Grant award from the Office of Grants Management under the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011), effective July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2029. This award consolidates two prior grants and funds an intergenerational volunteer service initiative across 111 volunteer service stations in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and Salem Counties in New Jersey. The program engages senior volunteers aged 55 and older with limited incomes to provide direct one-on-one mentoring, tutoring, literacy instruction, and educational support to children with special needs or who are academically or socially disadvantaged in schools, Head Start programs, childcare centers, and other community settings.

Under this award, the awardee will deploy AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers serving approximately 20 hours per week to deliver comprehensive services including academic tutoring, developmental support for children with disabilities, and parenting skills education to young parents. The grantee is required to maintain a 10 percent statutory match and 10 percent budgetary match. All grant recipients must comply with National Service Criminal History Checks for compensated individuals and maintain comprehensive financial and program records for three years following submission of the final Federal Financial Report.