Fiscal Year (FY 2024 AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparents (FGP) Replacement and Expansion Opportunity Program | AC 11 01 23

Opportunity Information: Apply for AC 11 01 23

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparents (FGP) Replacement and Expansion Opportunity Program is a discretionary grant competition run by AmeriCorps to support and grow the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program, a national service initiative that has been operating since 1965. The core idea behind this opportunity is to strengthen communities by funding projects that recruit and support older adult volunteers (age 55 and over) who provide consistent, one-on-one mentoring and tutoring to children and youth who have special or exceptional needs, or who simply benefit from additional individualized attention. The program is built around sustained relationships rather than one-time interactions, and many volunteer-child matches are designed to last a year or longer.

In practice, the funded projects place AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent volunteers in settings where children and families most need extra support. Common service locations include schools, Head Start programs, child care centers, drug treatment centers, correctional institutions, and other community-based youth-serving organizations. Volunteers may help children review schoolwork, improve academic engagement, and build confidence, while also reinforcing positive values and social-emotional skills. The opportunity description also highlights family-centered and early childhood supports, such as teaching parenting skills to young parents and providing care and developmental attention to premature infants and children with disabilities. Overall, the grant is meant to expand the capacity of local organizations to deliver structured, dependable supportive services to children and youth through trained older adult volunteers.

This specific competition is described as supporting both replacement and expansion, meaning it is intended to help communities maintain existing Foster Grandparent service capacity where it is ending or needs to be recompeted, and also to grow the program into new or underserved areas or increase the number of volunteer placements and service sites. The funding instrument is a grant, and the opportunity sits across multiple public-purpose categories, including community development, disaster prevention and relief, education, employment/labor/training, environment, food and nutrition, health, and other community benefit areas. The CFDA (Assistance Listing) number tied to this program is 94.011.

Eligibility is broad and includes a mix of government entities and nonprofit and educational institutions that can operate community-based service programs. Eligible applicants include state governments; county governments; city or township governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments); nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education institutions); nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education institutions); and private institutions of higher education. A key constraint noted in the posting is that private institutions of higher education are only eligible if they are nonprofit. The synopsis also references State Service Commissions and/or states and US territories, reflecting the prominent role these entities often play in administering or coordinating AmeriCorps-funded activities within their jurisdictions.

Administrative details from the source data include the funding opportunity title and identifier (Funding Opportunity Number AC 11 01 23), with AmeriCorps listed as the issuing agency. The opportunity was created on 2023-11-01 and had an original application closing date of 2024-02-01. The listing does not provide an award ceiling or expected number of awards in the excerpt provided, so prospective applicants typically would need to consult the full notice to understand budget ranges, match or cost share expectations (if any), performance measures, and other compliance requirements specific to this competition.

• The AmeriCorps in the community development, disaster prevention and relief, education, employment, labor and training, environment, food and nutrition, health, other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year (FY 2024 AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparents (FGP) Replacement and Expansion Opportunity Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 94.011.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2023-11-01.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-02-01. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others.

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