Serve Washington is pleased to announce the 2026 AmeriCorps State Competitive Request for Grant Applications (RFGA) to meet state and local challenges through service and volunteer action.
Donor Name: Serve Washington
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/28/2026
Size of the Grant: Less than $1000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
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.
Funding Priorities
For this funding opportunity, AmeriCorps will prioritize consideration from organizations that:
- Faith-Based:
- Organizations that are faith-based.
- Serve Communities:
- Serve communities with concentrated poverty, rural communities, and tribal communities.
- Implement 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. These may include individuals who have experienced substance use and mental health challenges.
- Focus on improving quality of life for veterans, active-duty members of the Armed Forces, and their families through models that provide effective interventions or services or that are designed to recruit veterans, military spouses, and their older children into national service, e.g., veterans serving in mentorship roles.
- Focus on public safety, crime prevention, and/or partnerships between law enforcement and the community.
- Focus on expanding outdoor recreation opportunities for future generations by maintaining public lands; supporting wildland fire mitigation and sustainable forest management; and providing reforestation services.
- Create workforce pathways for AmeriCorps members, including deliberate training, such as pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship opportunities, certifications, and hiring preferences or support;
- Focus on strengthening families, e.g., activities that aim to support low-income parents through parenting education, responsible parenting and healthy relationship skills.
- Benefit AmeriCorps Members:
- Enhanced member experience by providing opportunities for skill attainment, personal growth and connection to the community they are serving in support of a lifetime of civic participation.
- Enhance and expand services to formerly incarcerated and at-risk youth and/or engage those youth as AmeriCorps members.
Goals or Expected Outcomes
National Performance Measures All applications must include at least one aligned performance measure, output and outcome, that corresponds to the proposed primary intervention. This may be a National Performance Measure or an applicant-determined measure.
Funding Information
AmeriCorps may provide a maximum of $800 per individual enrolled in an approved national service position. If at least 50 percent of a program’s enrollees are disadvantaged youth, AmeriCorps may provide $1,000 per enrollee.
Grant Period
AmeriCorps plans to make three-year grant awards.
Eligibility criteria
The following non-Federal organizations are eligible to apply:
- Indian Tribes;
- Institutions of higher education;
- Local governments, including school districts;
- Nonprofit organizations;
- State Service Commissions (submit sub-applicants but not operate programs); and
- States and US Territories.
For more information, visit Serve Washington.
