Applications are now being accepted for the 2025 AmeriCorps State and National Native Nation Grants.
Donor Name: AmeriCorps
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/09/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
AmeriCorps improves lives, strengthens communities, and fosters civic engagement through service and volunteering. AmeriCorps brings people together to tackle some of the country’s most pressing challenges through national service and volunteerism. AmeriCorps members serve with organizations dedicated to the improvement of communities and those serving. AmeriCorps grants are awarded to eligible organizations engaging AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions to strengthen communities. An AmeriCorps member is person who does community service through AmeriCorps. Members may receive a living allowance and other benefits. After successful completion of their service, members earn a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award they can use to pay for higher education expenses or apply to qualified student loans.
The FY 2025 AmeriCorps State and National Native Nations Grants competition, AmeriCorps seeks to prioritize the investment of national service resources in:
- Serve Communities:
- Prioritize civic engagement/social cohesion, and youth mental health;
- Education – 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 and Indigenous Urban Centers, Indigenous Teacher Preparation, and GED support programs, and programming focused on Indigenous or Tribal Data Sovereignty;
- Promote the preservation and teaching of traditional Native languages and cultural practices;
- Promote 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 (seed saving, foraging, etc.);
- Promote 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;
- Promote Healthy Futures – providing services to historically underserved individuals both on and off reservation lands, including but not limited to people with arrest and/or conviction records, 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;
- Focus on improving the quality of life for veterans, active-duty members of the Armed Forces, and their families by recruiting veterans, military spouses, and their older children into national service;
- Benefit AmeriCorps Members
- Provide 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, etc.; and
- Create workforce pathways for AmeriCorps members, including deliberate training, certifications, and hiring preferences or support.
Eligibility Criteria
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments).
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
