AmeriCorps State and National Grants

americorpsgrants@americorps.gov
1.800.942.2677
Live chat

AmeriCorps awards grants to organizations to implement programs that utilize AmeriCorps members to engage in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions to strengthen rural and urban communities.

For this funding round, AmeriCorps will prioritize projects with a focus on:

• Organizations serving communities with concentrated poverty, rural and tribal communities
• Implementing programs for or expanding access to high-quality youth mental health and substance use recovery services and prepare AmeriCorps members to enter behavioral health careers
• Improving quality of life for veterans, military members of the military, and their families
• Public safety, crime prevention, and/or partnerships between law enforcement and the community
• Expanding outdoor recreation opportunities for future generations through maintenance of public lands, wildland fire mitigation, sustainable forest management, and reforestation
• Creating workforce pathways for AmeriCorps members, including deliberate training, certifications, and hiring preferences or support
• Strengthening families by supporting low-income parents through parenting education, responsible parenting and healthy relationship skills
• Providing additional benefits to AmeriCorps members through opportunities for skill attainment, personal growth and connection to the community they are serving in support of a lifetime of civic participation
• Enhancing and expanding services to second chance youth/at-risk and/or engage those youth as AmeriCorps members

Entities eligible to apply include:

• Nonprofit organizations
• Institutions of higher education
• Local governments, including school districts
• Tribes
• State service commissions
• States and territories

AmeriCorps encourages organizations that have never received AmeriCorps funding to apply.

AmeriCorps grants can be awarded on a cost reimbursement or fixed amount basis. See the application instructions for complete details and award amounts.

A first-time successful applicant is required to match 24% for the first 3-year funding period. Starting with year 4, the match requirement gradually increases every year to 30% by year 10. A table is provided in the application instructions.

Links to additional guidance and the application instructions are available on the program website and grants.gov.

Single-state applicant deadlines to State and Territory Commissions may be significantly before the federal deadlines, so prospective state applicants should contact the commission in the state or territory where they intend to apply as early as possible. A list of State Commission contacts is available on the program website.

Applicants that are federally recognized tribes, in South Dakota, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, or planning to operate in more than one state or territory should apply directly to AmeriCorps. Potential applicants should contact americorpsgrants@americorps.gov for additional guidance.

Applicant webinar recordings