Volunteer Florida administers the Volunteer Generation Fund (VGF), an initiative of AmeriCorps that focuses investment on volunteer management practices that increase volunteer recruitment and retention.
Donor Name: Volunteer Florida
State: Florida
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 08/12/2022
Size of the Grant: $24,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
Volunteer Florida seeks to support local organizations to increase their capacity to recruit, manage, support, and retain skills-based volunteers to serve in high-value volunteer assignments.
Funding Priorities
Volunteer Florida is soliciting proposals from Florida organizations that use volunteers to provide services in the following six (6) AmeriCorps priority areas: 1) Disaster Services, 2) Economic Opportunity, 3) Education, 4) Environmental Stewardship, 5) Healthy Futures, 6) Veterans and Military Families.
- Proposals including one of the priority areas listed below will receive a three (3) point scoring priority.
- Rural Communities – organizations that demonstrate measurable impact and primarily serve rural communities with limited resources and organizational infrastructure.
- Economic Opportunities – Increasing economic opportunities for communities by preparing people for the workforce.
- Certification of completion of Volunteer Florida’s Grant Writing Training.
- To receive priority consideration, applicants must show that the priority area is a significant part of the program focus and intended outcomes, and must include a high-quality program design. Applicants priority consideration does not guarantee funding.
- Organizations including rural communities or economic opportunities/workforce priority areas are not required to have a prescribed number of skills-based volunteers recruited or hours served for those service areas. Volunteers recruited for the priority area programs can be a subset of overall volunteers recruited.
- Volunteer Florida will encourage geographic diversity by actively seeking proposals from all seven (7) regions of the state, as defined by the Florida Division of Emergency Management.
Funding Information
In anticipation of federal funding for the VGF program for FY 2022- 2023, Volunteer Florida will make available up to $520,000 for an estimated twenty-four (24) organizations serving the needs of Floridians. New applicant organizations and organizations in their second year of funding will be eligible to receive $20,000 in grant funding. Organizations entering their third year of VGF funding will be eligible to receive $24,000 in grant funding. All subgrantees will receive additional training support associated with the VGF program. Subgrants will be awarded only in the amounts listed. New organizations, organizations entering their second year, and organizations entering their third year of funding should request $20,000 or $24,000, respectively.
Grant Period
The grant period is a twelve-month period, beginning October 1, 2022, and ending September 30, 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible entities must be public or private nonprofit organizations, including faith based and other community organizations; institutions of higher education; governmental entities within states or territories (e.g., cities, counties); labor organizations; partnerships and consortia; or Indian Tribes. The FY 2022-2023 VGF program is intended to build capacity that will result in sustainable skills-based volunteer programs.
- Eligible entities must mobilize people and resources to deliver creative solutions to community problems through programs and services that encompass the following:
- Recognize that all volunteers have skills and talents to share;
- Connect people with opportunities to serve;
- Promote volunteering at all levels and ages; and
- Build or establish partnerships and collaboration among organizations in the community.
- Eligible entities must mobilize people and resources to deliver creative solutions to community problems through programs and services that encompass the following:
- The Volunteer Generation Fund cannot be used as an expansion of existing federally funded national service programs such as AmeriCorps or AmeriCorps Senior.
- Organizations receiving VGF program funds for more than three (3) years are not eligible for FY 2022-2023 VGF funding.
- Organizations receiving the following Volunteer Florida grants are not eligible for the FY 2022-2023 VGF funding: AmeriCorps, Florida Disaster Fund and Community Emergency Response Team (CERT).
For more information, visit Volunteer Generation Fund.
