AmeriCorps State and National Native Nations Grants

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americorpsgrants@cns.gov

AmeriCorps State and National Native Nations Grants provide funding to engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions to strengthen tribal communities.

Priority areas include:

• Programs that prioritize civic engagement, social cohesion, and youth mental health
• 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; indigenous environmental practices; traditional ecological knowledge; and Indigenous food sovereignty
• Improving student academic performance in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), serving students who attend Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) schools, Tribal Colleges and Universities, indigenous teacher preparation, GED support programs, and programming focused on Indigenous or tribal data sovereignty
• Economic opportunity including digital skills and increased access to broadband; infrastructure/transportation assistance; financial readiness; training and access to financial resources for home buying; or college; and college access program
• Healthy futures - providing services to historically underserved individuals both on and off reservation lands, including but not limited to people with disabilities, people who identify as part of the two spirit LGBTQIA+ community, building trauma-informed programs, addressing issues such as Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) programs to raise awareness
• Veterans and military families, by recruiting veterans, military spouses, and their older children into national service
• Programs that provide additional benefits to AmeriCorps members aimed at enhancing member experience and bolstering member recruitment and retention such as paying more than the minimum living allowance, transportation, housing, and food
• Programs that create workforce pathways for AmeriCorps members, including deliberate training, certifications, and hiring preferences or support
• Programs promoting the preservation and teaching of traditional native languages and cultural practices

Eligible applicants are federally-recognized tribes and tribal organizations.

Match requirements are waived for this funding opportunity, but match replacement funds are available for Native Nation cost reimbursement applicants who certify that they are "severely economically distressed communities" as defined by 42 U.S.C. 12645d(b). Match replacement funds are additional AmeriCorps funds up to the amount that would have been contributed by the recipient if the match requirements were not waived. See the application instructions for complete details.

New applicants can apply for Cost Reimbursement and Education Award Program (EAP) grants but cannot apply for Full Cost Fixed Amount grants.

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

Submit applications through the AmeriCorps eGrants system.