This award funds the approved 2026?27 FGP program. Your 2026?27 statutory match is 0% and your budgetary match is 0%.

The Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management awarded Catholic Charities Of The Diocese Of Baton Rouge, Inc. $359,606 on July 1, 2026, under the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011), a three-year project grant running through June 30, 2029.

The award funds Catholic Charities to deploy foster grandparent volunteers ages 55 and older to provide one-on-one tutoring, mentoring, and other supports to disadvantaged youth in Louisiana. Volunteers serve an average of 20 hours per week in schools, early education and childcare centers, and other settings where children are present. The program engages older adults with limited incomes in intergenerational national service while addressing critical community needs for academic and social support to children with special or exceptional needs or who are academically or socially disadvantaged. Catholic Charities may enhance school environments through volunteer activities.

The award carries no statutory or budgetary match requirement. Catholic Charities holds four active prime awards with combined obligated value of $2.4 million and operates extensively as a subrecipient on refugee resettlement and child welfare programming through prime grantees including the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service Inc.