FY 2019 AmeriCorps Indian Tribes Grants | CNCS 03 06 19

Opportunity Information: Apply for CNCS 03 06 19

The FY 2019 AmeriCorps Indian Tribes Grants opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number CNCS 03 06 19) is a discretionary grant program administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) to support community-based service projects that place AmeriCorps members in structured national service positions. The core purpose is to strengthen communities by funding organizations that will deploy AmeriCorps members to carry out interventions that are evidence-based or evidence-informed, meaning applicants are expected to build their program designs around approaches that have research support, credible evaluation findings, or well-documented logic models showing how activities lead to measurable community outcomes.

Under this opportunity, funded organizations recruit, train, and supervise AmeriCorps members who perform direct service and related capacity-building activities to address local needs. AmeriCorps members are individuals serving in approved national service roles, and the program is designed to both deliver community impact and provide members with personal and professional development. Members may receive a living allowance and additional benefits during their term of service, and after they successfully complete service, they earn the Segal AmeriCorps Education Award through the National Service Trust. That education award can be used to pay qualified higher education expenses or to repay eligible student loans, which is a key member benefit and an important recruitment and retention tool for grantee programs.

The grant instrument is a standard grant award, and the eligible program areas are broad, reflecting AmeriCorps service priorities across many community domains. The listed funding activity categories include community development, disaster prevention and relief, education, employment and workforce training, environment, food and nutrition, health, housing, and natural resources. The opportunity is associated with CFDA number 94.006, which is the federal assistance listing commonly tied to AmeriCorps State and National programming and related service initiatives.

Eligibility is intentionally wide to allow tribal communities and partners to apply through multiple organizational forms. Eligible applicants include federally recognized Native American tribal governments, tribal organizations (including those other than federally recognized tribal governments), and a range of other public and private entities that may partner with tribes or operate programs serving tribal communities. Those eligible entities include state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities; and nonprofit organizations both with and without 501(c)(3) status (so long as they are not institutions of higher education in the nonprofit category). In practice, this means tribes can apply directly, tribal nonprofits can apply, and other governmental or nonprofit partners can also apply when appropriate, depending on how the service program will be structured and who will serve as the legal applicant and fiscal agent.

The opportunity was created on March 6, 2019, with an original application closing date of May 2, 2019. The published source data does not specify an award ceiling or the expected number of awards in the fields provided, so applicants would typically look to the full notice and related application instructions for details on available funding amounts, matching requirements (if any), member slots, performance measures, and evaluation expectations. Overall, the opportunity is focused on building community capacity and delivering measurable results in tribal and tribal-serving contexts by supporting well-designed service programs that place AmeriCorps members in roles where they can create tangible local impact while earning education benefits for their service.

• The Corporation for National and Community Service in the community development, disaster prevention and relief, education, employment, labor and training, environment, food and nutrition, health, housing, natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 2019 AmeriCorps Indian Tribes Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 94.006.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2019-03-06.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2019-05-02. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.

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