FY2022 AmeriCorps State and National Grants

Background
AmeriCorps brings people together to tackle some of the country’s most pressing challenges through national service and volunteering. AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers serve with organizations dedicated to the improvement of communities. AmeriCorps grants are awarded to eligible organizations proposing to engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions/practices to strengthen communities.
An AmeriCorps member is an individual who engages in community service through an approved national service position. Members may receive a living allowance and other benefits while serving. Upon successful completion of their service, members earn a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award that they can use to pay for higher education expenses or apply to qualified student loans.

Grant Details
The National and Community Service Act of 1990, as amended by the Serve America Act, emphasizes measuring the impact of service and focusing on a core set of issue areas. The focus areas include Disaster Services, Economic Opportunity, Education, Environmental Stewardship, Healthy Futures, and Veterans and Military Families.
The funding priorities for this grant competition include:
- Efforts to help local communities respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic
- Educational opportunity and economic mobility for communities experiencing persistent unemployment or underemployment
- Programs that prioritize civic engagement and social cohesion
- Evidence-based interventions on the AmeriCorps Evidence Exchange that are assessed as having Moderate or Strong evidence
- Veterans and military families, caregivers, and survivors
- Rural intermediaries
- Environmental stewardship and climate change including renewable energy and energy efficiency
- Building community resilience
- Sustainable food systems and agriculture
- Conservation and habitat preservation
- Faith-based organizations
- Economic Mobility Corps.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants include local governments, nonprofit organizations, states, Indian Tribes, institutions of higher education.
Applicants must have a valid SAM registration and DUNS or Unique Entity Identifier to receive an award. New applicants are encouraged to apply for Cost Reimbursement and Education Award Program (EAP) grants but are not eligible to apply for Full Cost Fixed Amount grants.

Period of Performance
AmeriCorps anticipates making three-year grants with an initial award for the first year based on a one-year budget.
Continuation awards for subsequent years are not guaranteed; they depend upon availability of appropriations and satisfactory performance.

Grant Value
The actual level of funding is subject to the availability of annual appropriations.
Award amounts will vary as determined by the scope of the projects.