AmeriCorps State and National Grants

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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 communities, tribal communities, and those serving historically underrepresented and underserved individuals, including but not limited to communities of color, immigrants and refugees, people with disabilities, people who identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ community, people with arrest and/or conviction records, and religious minorities
• Implementing programs for or expand access to high-quality youth mental health and substance use recovery services and prepare AmeriCorps members to enter behavioral health careers
• Veterans and military families, caregivers, and survivors
• Promoting environmental stewardship to help communities (especially underserved households and communities) to be more resilient
• 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, food
• Programs that create workforce pathways for AmeriCorps members, including deliberate training, certifications, and hiring preferences or support
• Faith-based organizations
• Community-based programs that enhance and expand services to second chance youth and/or engage those youth as AmeriCorps members
• Programs that support civic bridgebuilding programs and projects to reduce polarization and community divisions
• Programs focused on implementing or expanding access to high-quality early learning and those that prepare AmeriCorps members to enter early learning careers

Entities eligible to apply include:

• Nonprofit organizations
• Institutions of higher education
• Local governments
• 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.

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:

• AmeriCorps State and National 101 recording
  
• FY 2025 AmeriCorps State and National Competitive Notice of Funding Opportunity recording
  
• FY 2025 Best Practices for Performance Measures recording
  
• FY 2025 Best Practices for Performance Measures Live Q&A recording
  
• Best Practices in Budget Development recording
  
• Best Practices in Budget Development Office Hour recording