This award funds the approved 2026?27 FGP program

The Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management awarded New Opportunities Inc. $648,759 for the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011) on July 1, 2026, under Project Grant 26SFFCT001, consolidating prior awards 25SFFCT002 and 24SFFCT002. The award funds deployment of senior volunteers aged 55 and older to provide one-on-one mentoring and tutoring to children with special needs across Connecticut through June 30, 2029. Work is performed in Connecticut and includes volunteer service delivered in schools, early education and childcare centers, and other settings where children are present. The recipient, New Opportunities Inc., a Waterbury-based tax-exempt nonprofit community action agency, carries a 10 percent statutory match and 10 percent budgetary match requirement. All compensated participants must clear National Service Criminal History Checks, and the award is subject to GAO audit compliance and maintenance of financial and program records for three years from final Federal Financial Report submission. The program qualifies only existing AmeriCorps Seniors FGP grantees who currently receive federal funds for an AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Companion Program grant, along with Indian tribes and qualifying tribal organizations.

Your 2026?27 statutory match is 10% and your budgetary match is 10%. This award consolidates 25SFFCT002 and 24SFFCT002, including vsys and geographic service areas.