This award funds the approved 2026?27 FGP program

The Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management awarded Action For Boston Community Development, Inc. (doing business as A B C D) $1,180,876 on July 1, 2026 under the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011) to engage senior volunteers aged 55 and older in one-on-one mentoring, tutoring, and educational support to children with special needs or academic or social disadvantage.

Volunteers deliver services across schools, Head Start programs, and childcare centers throughout Massachusetts, including the newly approved geographic service area expansion to Norfolk County. The award represents a baseline funding increase of $99,000, bringing total baseline funding to $1,058,071. The recipient must meet a statutory match of 10 percent and a budgetary match of 10.4 percent.

Performance runs through June 30, 2029. A B C D is a Boston-based tax-exempt nonprofit that operates as a prime recipient across federal grant programs in community development, early childhood education, senior volunteer engagement, and family planning services. The organization holds 57 awards as a prime recipient and 70 as a sub-recipient across federal sources, with recent activity concentrated in grants from the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Your 2026?27 statutory match is 10% and your budgetary match is 10.4%. This award was approved for changes to the geographic service area: add norfolk county. This award was also approved for an increase in baseline funding of $99,000. The new baseline funding for this grant is $1,058,071.