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THIS GRANT’S FOCUS: Community, Civic Engagement, Racial Justice, Education, Health
Deadline: Jan. 6, 2021
“AmeriCorps grants are awarded to eligible organizations proposing to engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions to strengthen communities.
CNCS seeks to prioritize the investment of national service resources in the following areas:
- Efforts to help local communities recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Applicants may
propose programming in any CNCS focus area to aid communities as they recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. - Programs that actively engage in removing structural racial inequities, advancing racial
equality, and increasing opportunity in order to achieve sustainable change in communities. - Economic Opportunity – a program model that increases economic opportunities for
communities by preparing people for the workforce. - Education – see sixth bullet
- Healthy Futures – a program model that reduces and/or prevents prescription drug and
- opioid abuse.
- Evidence-based interventions on the CNCS Evidence Exchange
(https://www.nationalservice.gov/impact-our-nation/evidence-exchange) that are assessed as having Moderate or Strong evidence. - Veterans and Military Families – a program model that positively impacts the quality of
life of veterans and improves military family strength. - Rural intermediaries – organizations that demonstrate measurable impact and primarily
serve rural communities with limited resources and organizational infrastructure. - Faith-based organizations
- Programs that reduce child poverty
- Environmental stewardship
- Economic Mobility Corps – a joint initiative with the Community Development FinancialInstitutions Fund to place national service members at Certified Community Development Financial Institutions to enhance their capacity to provide financial literacy, financial planning, budgeting, saving, and other financial counseling activities in distressed and underserved areas.”
Funder: Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)
Eligibility: Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, private institutions of higher education, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, city or township governments, county governments, state governments, Native American tribal organizations, Native American tribal governments (federally recognized), independent school districts, special district governments, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities.
Amount: Unspecified
Contact: Link.
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