2017 AmeriCorps State Grant Request for Applications

Published: September 16, 2016

Application Due Date: November 1, 2016
CFDA Number: 94.006
Contact Information: Funding@cv.ca.gov

Grant Description

NOTE:This competition has limited availability. Please see eligibility requirements below, and email funding@cv.ca.gov if you have any questions about your eligibility.

Through the 2017 AmeriCorps State Grant Request for Applications (RFA), CV will award AmeriCorps grants on a competitive basis to eligible organizations that engage members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions to strengthen communities. Grants will be awarded beginning mid-August in 2017 to support service activities during the 2017-18 program year. Successful applicants are expected to start member service activities by mid-October of 2016 and will have 12 months to support AmeriCorps members in completing a term of service.

Eligibility

This RFA is open only to recompeting AmeriCorps programs and planning grantees that meet the following criteria:

  • Recompeting AmeriCorps programs must be operating their third and final year of the grant cycle in 2016-17.
  • Current AmeriCorps planning grantees that will have satisfactorily completed required planning grant deliverables by the CNCS January 18, 2017 competitive submission deadline.

CV expects to issue a Request for Applictions open to new applicants in the early Spring of 2017.

Application Deadline

The complete application is due to CV by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 1, 2016. Please send the hardcopy application to the following address:

CaliforniaVolunteers
2017 AmeriCorps
1400 10th Street
Sacramento, CA 95814