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2025 AmeriCorps State and National 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.

Benefit AmeriCorps Members

  • Provide 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.;
  • Create workforce pathways for AmeriCorps members, including deliberate training, certifications, and hiring preferences or support;
  • Enhance and expand services to second chance youth and/or engage those youth as AmeriCorps members; and
  • Develop and train the next generation of diverse public health leaders through service while addressing pressing community health challenges. Review Public Health AmeriCorps Priority in the Mandatory Supplemental Information for eligibility information.

Use Evidence

  • Utilize reports from the AmeriCorps Evidence Exchange on programs assessed as having Moderate or Strong evidence to scale, replicate, or adapt the intervention.

Faith-Based

  • Organizations that are faith-based.

American Climate Corps

(Please note) Applicants may propose projects to be affiliated with the American Climate Corps (ACC), which is a federal government national service and workforce development initiative focused on training young people for the clean energy and climate resilience workforce. Applicants who are interested must demonstrate that their project funds ACC eligible positions meeting the following criteria:

  • The position has verifiable climate or environmental impact.
  • The position is temporary (term-limited), and the term length is at least 300 hours.
  • The position includes skills-based training as part of the program and provides a pathway to employment.
  • The position must receive a living allowance and, in some cases, may receive additional member benefits.

To receive priority consideration, applicants must show the priority area is a significant part of the program focus and intended outcomes. Priority consideration does not guarantee funding.

Application Deadline

The deadline for applications to the 2025 AmeriCorps State and National Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is Thursday, January 23, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. ET. AmeriCorps State and National expects that successful applicants will be notified by mid-April 2025.

Single-State Applicants: Organizations that propose to operate in only one state must apply through the Governor-appointed State or Territory Commissions. Each state and territory administers its own selection process and submits the applications it selects to compete for funding directly to AmeriCorps. State Commissions have their own application processes and may have additional requirements.

States and Territories without Commissions: Applicants in South Dakota, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands apply directly to AmeriCorps because the state of South Dakota and these Territories do not have established Commissions. Please contact AmeriCorpsGrants@AmeriCorps.gov for additional guidance.

State Commission Competition Contacts and Deadlines

Single-state applicant deadlines to State Commissions may be significantly before the AmeriCorps State and National deadline, thus prospective state applicants should contact the State Commission in the state or territory where they intend to apply as early as possible.

Please visit the State Service Commissions webpage for State Commission contacts and more information.

Funding Announcement, Mandatory Supplemental Information, and Application Instructions

2025 AmeriCorps State and National Notice of Funding Opportunity (PDF)
2025 AmeriCorps State and National Mandatory Supplemental Information (PDF)
2025 AmeriCorps State and National Application Instructions (PDF) 

Performance Measure Instructions

2025 AmeriCorps State and National Performance Measure Instructions (PDF) 
2025 Public Health AmeriCorps Performance Measure  Instructions (PDF) 
2025 Applicant Determined Performance Measures Instructions (PDF) 
 

Evaluation Plan Template

AmeriCorps State and National Evaluation Plan Template (DOC)

Manage Your Grant

Resources you need to effectively manage your grant, including eGrants instructions, terms and conditions, individual match waivers, pre-award requirements, financial reporting requirements, and training and technical assistance materials are found on Manage Your Grant.

  • Applicant Operational and Financial Management Survey (OFMS): All new and recompeting applicants regardless of funding level are required to submit an OFMS with every new and recompeting application an organization submits to AmeriCorps. The form needs to be completed fully, a response for every question. If there are additional comments needed to explain certain responses, please utilize the ‘preparer’s comments’ section.
    • The OFMS must be submitted as an MS Form Survey through the link above. All other formats, including Word Document and PDF, will not be accepted.
  • AmeriCorps Due Diligence Review Process and Compliance: Applicants will find information to help them understand the pre-award due diligence checks in this training. This content will help applicants obtain due diligence compliance and remain compliant throughout the grant life.
  • Terms and Conditions: Current versions of the AmeriCorps General and Program-Specific Terms and Conditions for each of its programs is available.
  • eGrants Indirect Cost Rate (IDCR) Instructions: Instructions for how to enter the organization’s indirect cost rate are located on this page. Applicants should not submit documentation addressing indirect cost rate agreement via email.

Resolution

AmeriCorps may ask an applicant for information after notification of competition results. An applicant’s failure to respond to a request adequately and in a timely manner may result in the removal of its application from the award process.

Technical Assistance Information

If you are having technical difficulties with creating an account or preparing or submitting the application in eGrants, please contact the AmeriCorps Hotline at 800-942-2677. For all other application questions, please contact AmeriCorpsGrants@AmeriCorps.gov.

2025 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for PHA Grantees applying to ASN Notice of Funding Opportunity

Technical Assistance Webinars

AmeriCorps is hosting technical assistance webinars for applicants to answer questions about the funding opportunity and eGrants. AmeriCorps strongly encourages all applicants participate in these sessions. The Technical Assistance Webinars section will be updated with additional webinars and resources as they are scheduled.

Information Sessions

  • AmeriCorps State and National 101: Overview of AmeriCorps the agency, AmeriCorps State and National the program, and each of the FY 2025 AmeriCorps State and National Notice of Funding Opportunities. 
  • FY 2025 AmeriCorps State and National Competitive Notice of Funding Opportunity: Overview of the FY 2025 ASN Competitive Notice, how to apply, and application requirements.  
  • FY 2025 AmeriCorps State and National Best Practices for Performance Measures Video: Overview of Performance Measures, performance measure requirements, and best practices for developing performance measures. 
  • FY 2025 Best Practices for Performance Measures Live Q&A: Join AmeriCorps State and National staff for live Q&A about best practices for developing performance measures.  

Sept. 25, 2024, 1:00 p.m. ET

  • Recording
     
  • Best Practices in Budget Development: An overview of the function of an AmeriCorps budget, the budget management process, and the keys for submitting a compliant and competitive AmeriCorps budget and budget narrative. 
  • Best Practices in Budget Development Office Hour: AmeriCorps strongly encourages applicants to review the budget related sections of the Notice and Application Instructions, along with the Best Practices of Budget Development recording, before joining this Q&A webinar.

  • Active SAM.gov Registration Instructions (new as of Nov. 18, 2024)

     

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Further information

Status
Open
CFDA number
94.006
Contact Email
AmeriCorpsGrants@AmeriCorps.gov