FY2022 AmeriCorps State and National Tribal 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 helps make service a cornerstone of our national culture.
AmeriCorps grants are awarded to eligible organizations proposing to engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions/practices to strengthen communities.

Grant Details
The grant will support increased and improved disaster services, economic opportunity, education, environmental stewardship, healthy futures, and veterans and military families. The funding priorities 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/social cohesion, working on a Nation-to-Nation basis with Tribal Nations, economic opportunity including digital skills and increased access to broadband, education improving student academic performance in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), traditional knowledge and indigenous language, serving students who attend Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) schools, veterans and military families' well-being improvement, environmental stewardship and climate change including renewable energy and energy efficiency, building community resilience, sustainable food systems and agriculture, water/wastewater, conservation and habitat preservation.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants include Indian Tribes as defined in 2 CFR 200.1 and tribal organizations controlled, sanctioned, or chartered by Federally recognized Indian Tribes. New applicants are encouraged to apply for Cost Reimbursement and Education Award Program (EAP) grant but are not eligible to apply for Full Cost Fixed Amount grants.
Threshold issues include demonstrating that the community has an inadequate number of professionals if applying as a Professional Corps applicant.

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.