FY 2021 AmeriCorps State and National Grants

Overview

<p>The mission of CNCS is to improve lives, strengthen communities, and foster civic engagement through service and volunteering. Through AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, and the Volunteer Generation Fund, CNCS has helped to engage millions of citizens in meeting community and national challenges through service and volunteer action.</p> <p>CNCS seeks to prioritize the investment of national service resources in the following areas: <br>-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.<br>-Programs that actively engage in removing structural racial inequities, advancing racial equality, and increasing opportunity in order to achieve sustainable change in communities.<br>-Economic Opportunity – a program model that increases economic opportunities for communities by preparing people for the workforce. <br>-Education – see sixth bullet.<br>-Healthy Futures – a program model that reduces and/or prevents prescription drug and opioid abuse.<br>-Evidence-based interventions on the CNCS Evidence Exchange (<a href="https://www.nationalservice.gov/impact-our-nation/evidence-exchange">ht…;) that are assessed as having Moderate or Strong evidence.<br>-Veterans and Military Families – a program model that positively impacts the quality of life of veterans and improves military family strength.<br>-Rural intermediaries - organizations that demonstrate measurable impact and primarily serve rural communities with limited resources and organizational infrastructure. <br>-Faith-based organizations.<br>-Programs that reduce child poverty.<br>-Environmental stewardship.<br>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.</p>