Planning grants provide funding to help organizations develop new AmeriCorps programs to address community challenges.
Donor Name: AmeriCorps
State: Colorado
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/11/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $150,000
Details:
Focus Areas
AmeriCorps programming fits into one or more of six focus areas:
- Education;
- Economic Opportunity;
- Disaster Response;
- Environmental Stewardship;
- Healthy Futures; and
- Veterans & Military Families
Funding Priorities
- Programs that create workforce pathways for AmeriCorps members, including deliberate training, apprenticeships, pre-apprenticeships, or certifications that are issued or recognized by an accredited body as traceable, stackable, and/or portable.
- Organizations leading service in communities with concentrated poverty, and those organizations 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.
- Green Infrastructure. In response to the landmark 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the Polis-Primavera Administration seeks to leverage the power of AmeriCorps’ people power with identified IRA-funded projects in Colorado to help such efforts as promoting and/or increasing energy and water efficiency, weatherization, solar installation, and green jobs development.
- Rural Intermediaries – Serve Colorado recognizes that severely under-resourced communities may have limited capacity to successfully apply for and implement an AmeriCorps program, due to the size and organizational capacity of eligible applicant/host site organizations or the lack of available matching funds in these communities. Thus, it may be effective for a single eligible applicant (intermediary) to develop an application and oversee the implementation of an AmeriCorps program that engages multiple grassroots non-profits/eligible applicants (consortium) that, individually, do not have the necessary organizational or fundraising capacity to apply for and run an AmeriCorps program. Given the desire to address community needs holistically, the nonprofits/eligible applicants that make up the consortium may have, but are not required to have, different focus areas, including capacity building.
Funding Information
Serve Colorado awards planning grants up to $150,000.
Eligibility Criteria
The following non-federal entities are eligible to apply:
- Federally Recognized Tribes
- Institutions of higher education
- Local governments
- Nonprofit organizations
- States
For more information, visit AmeriCorps.
