This award funds the approved 2026?27 FGP program. Your 2026?27 statutory match is 10% and your budgetary match is 10.00%.

The Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management awarded South Central Human Resource Agency, Inc. $358,162 on July 1, 2026, under the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011) to deploy volunteers aged 55 and older to provide tutoring and mentoring to disadvantaged children in Tennessee.

The Foster Grandparent Program engages low-income persons 55 years or older in volunteer service to meet critical community needs through one-on-one mentoring and tutoring of children with special or exceptional needs or who are academically or socially disadvantaged. Volunteers serve in schools, early education and childcare centers, and other settings where children are present, providing tutoring based on individual student needs and teaching parenting skills to young parents. AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers in the program serve an average of 20 hours per week.

The award runs through June 30, 2029, with a statutory match requirement of 10 percent and budgetary match of 10 percent. South Central Human Resource Agency, Inc. is a Tennessee-based nonprofit that operates as a federal grant recipient focused on early childhood education, senior volunteer programming, and low-income family support services. The organization's federal footprint is exclusively grant-funded and includes Head Start and Early Head Start program delivery and AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program administration alongside pass-through administration of multiple community service block grants.