The New Jersey Commission on National and Community Service, in partnership with AmeriCorps State and National (ASN), seeks single-state applicants within New Jersey to apply for this AmeriCorps Competitive Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).
Donor Name: New Jersey Department of State Volunteer and National Service
State: New Jersey
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/13/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
In exchange for their service, AmeriCorps members are provided with a living allowance ($20,400 for a FT term), training, and the ability to earn a Segal Education Award (about $7,395 currently) for eligible college tuition, cost of attendance, or eligible college loans.
The New Jersey Commission on National and Community Service, New Jersey Department of State, seeks to fund local initiatives and utilize the AmeriCorps model to increase civic engagement and improve New Jersey’s communities by deploying AmeriCorps members to provide services in the six focus areas:
AmeriCorps Focus Areas
- Disaster Services
- Economic Opportunity
- Education
- Environmental Stewardship
- Healthy Futures
- Veterans and Military Families.
Funding Priorities
For this funding opportunity, AmeriCorps will prioritize consideration from organizations that:
Serve Communities:
- Serve communities with concentrated poverty, rural communities, tribal communities, and historically underrepresented and underserved individuals. These may include people of color, immigrants, refugees, people with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with arrest or conviction records, religious minorities, etc.;
- 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 with lived experience with substance use and mental health challenges to support youth mental health efforts and continued AmeriCorps work on the opioid epidemic;
- 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;
- Promote environmental stewardship to help communities (especially underserved households and communities) to be more resilient by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, conserving land and water, increasing renewable energy use and improving at-risk ecosystems; and
- Support civic bridgebuilding programs and projects to reduce polarization and community divisions; and providing training in civic bridgebuilding skills and techniques to AmeriCorps members.
Funding Period
For New or Re-competing applications, this is Year 1 of 3 of a multi-year grant period covering the following funding periods:
- Year 1 September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2026.
- Year 2 September 1, 2026 to August 31, 2027.
- Year 3 September 1, 2027 to August 31, 2028.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible agencies include:
- Public or private non-profit organizations, including community organizations and faith-based organizations;
- Local Education Agencies (LEAs) including charter schools; institutions of higher education;
- Government entities within the state (e.g., cities/municipalities, counties, state departments);
- Labor organizations;
- Partnerships or consortia consisting of the aforementioned.
For more information, visit DSVNS.
