The Serve Washington is pleased to announce the 2023 AmeriCorps State Competitive Request for Grant Applications (RFGA) to meet state and local challenges through service and volunteer action.
Donor Name: Serve Washington
State: Washington
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/19/2022
Details:
Purpose
AmeriCorps grants are awarded to eligible organizations proposing to engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions/practices to strengthen communities. An AmeriCorps member is an individual who engages in community service through an approved national service position. Members may receive a living allowance and other benefits while serving. Upon successful completion of their service, members earn a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award from the National Service Trust that members can use to pay for higher education expenses or apply to qualified student loans.
Funding Prioirities
Serve Washington seeks to develop a diverse grant portfolio of programs that meet AmeriCorps and/or Serve Washington priority areas:
- Serve Washington Funding Priorities
- Service strategies are driven by community identified priorities
- Organizations that are led and staffed by people that reflect the communities being served
- Programs that strive to recruit and select national service members that reflect communities being served
- Models that utilize service as a strategy to develop career pathways, address the housing crisis, support child wellness, and tackle climate change
- Replicate proven models that support a locally identified need
- Models that engage adults 55+
- Ensure resources are available to tribes, rural, and other underrepresented communities, and results in a geographically diverse portfolio of programs
- AmeriCorps Funding Priorities
- Organizations leading service in communities with concentrated poverty, rural communities, tribal communities, 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
- Evidence-based interventions on the AmeriCorps Evidence Exchange that are assessed as having Moderate or Strong evidence. Please note that many of these interventions have demonstrated effectiveness in improving outcomes for individuals living in underserved communities and that the agency has committed resources to supporting grantees seeking to replicate and evaluate these interventions in similar communities
- Veterans and Military Families, Caregivers, and Survivors – a program model that improves the quality of life of veterans and improves the well-being of military families, caregivers, and survivors
- Programs that provide additional 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.
- Programs that create workforce pathways for AmeriCorps members, including deliberate training, certifications, and hiring preferences or support
- Environmental Stewardship, including supporting communities to become more resilient through measures that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, conserve land and water, increase renewable energy use and improve at-risk ecosystems, especially in underserved households and communities
- Faith-based organizations.
- Economic Mobility Corps.
Eligibility Criteria
The following non-Federal entities (all of which are defined in 2 CFR 200.1) are eligible to apply:
- Indian Tribes
- institutions of higher education
- local governments
- nonprofit organizations
- state service commissions.
For more information, visit Serve Washington.
