Sunflower-Humphreys Counties Progress, Inc.

Sunflower-Humphreys Counties Progress, Inc., a Mississippi-based nonprofit organization, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering senior services and community assistance programs, split evenly between prime grants and sub-awards routed through state agencies. The organization is headquartered in Indianola, Mississippi, and holds a tax-exempt corporate structure under a nonprofit charter.

Sunflower-Humphreys Counties Progress receives its primary federal funding from the Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS Administration for Children and Families). The vendor's core capability is the operation of the AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Companion Program (CFDA 94.016), which mobilizes economically disadvantaged senior volunteers aged 55 and older to provide companionship, transportation assistance, respite care, light household chores, and mentoring support to vulnerable and isolated older adults across Bolivar, Humphreys, and Sunflower counties. The organization is responsible for managing AmeriCorps volunteer recruitment, eligibility certification, training, and day-to-day program operations. A representative prime grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management, awarded July 1, 2026, carries $409,356 in project funding for the 2026–27 program year, running through June 30, 2029, with mandatory 10% statutory match and 10.02% budgetary match requirements. An earlier prime grant award, dated May 18, 2023, funded program years 2023–24 and 2025–26, and included permanent funding increases of $8,792 for volunteer stipends and $20,440 for baseline funding to align with congressional increases and prevent volunteer displacement.

Sunflower-Humphreys Counties Progress also operates as a sub-recipient under Mississippi Department of Human Services pass-through grants, receiving sub-awards under the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG), Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs. The organization received CSBG and LIHEAP sub-awards in 2024, 2025, and 2026, and a TANF support-services sub-award in 2026. A June 2024 AmeriCorps sub-award to Sunflower-Humphreys Counties Progress specified 49 AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers targeting 100 older adults for independent-living support, with the AmeriCorps investment of $455,335 supplemented by $50,638 in anticipated non-AmeriCorps resources over a three-year performance period.

The vendor's customer base is confined to five distinct federal agencies, with the Corporation for National and Community Service accounting for 10 awards and HHS Administration for Children and Families for 10 awards across recent years. Recent activity shows two awards in 2025 and four in 2026, reflecting active engagement in AmeriCorps Seniors and HHS community-service programming. The organization maintains compliance with AmeriCorps federal audit requirements, Inspector General oversight, and Government Accountability Office standards, with three-year record-retention obligations for all financial and program documentation.