AmeriCorps State and National Native Nations Grants
Link
https://americorps.gov/funding-opportunity/fy-2025-americorps-state-national-native-nations-grants
Additional Links
Notice of Funding Opportunity (Grants.gov)
Deadline
Application Deadline: Apr 9, 2025
Sponsor
AmeriCorps
Purpose
Awards funding to Indian tribes and tribal organizations to engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions and practices to strengthen tribal communities. AmeriCorps members engage in community service through an approved national service position. Members may receive a living allowance and other benefits while serving. Upon successful completion of their service, members earn a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award that can be used to pay for higher education expenses or apply to qualified student loans.
Funding priorities include:
- Civic engagement/social cohesion, and youth mental health
- Environmental stewardship, including water/wastewater projects, community resilience, sustainable food systems, and food sovereignty
- Education to improve academic performance in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and serving students at Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) schools, tribal colleges and universities, Indigenous teacher preparation, and GED support programs
- Economic opportunity, including digital skills; access to broadband; infrastructure/transportation assistance; financial readiness; training and access to financial resources for home buying; or college; and college access programs
- Healthy Futures, a program that provides services to historically underserved individuals both on and off reservation lands, including but not limited to people with disabilities, people who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community, people with arrest and/or conviction records
- Improving 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
- Providing additional 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, and more
- Creating workforce pathways for AmeriCorps members, including deliberate training, certifications, and hiring preferences or support
- Promoting the preservation and teaching of traditional native languages and cultural practices
Amount of Funding
Grant awards can be on a cost reimbursement or fixed amount basis. Matching funds requirements vary depending upon the type of grant award, see the funding announcement for more details.
Awards typically cover a 3-year project period. An initial award is made for the first year of operation, based on a 1-year project period. Continuation awards for subsequent years are not guaranteed and depend upon the availability of appropriations and satisfactory performance.
The period of performance may not start before August 15, 2025.
Who Can Apply
Only federally recognized Indian tribes, as defined in 2 CFR ยง200.1, and tribal organizations controlled, sanctioned, or chartered by Indian tribes are eligible to apply.
AmeriCorps encourages new applicants that have not received funding from AmeriCorps to apply.
Geographic Coverage
Nationwide
What This Program Funds
Capacity Building • New Program • Operating Costs and Staffing • Training Providers
Application Process
Application instructions, requirements, and other information can be found in the funding announcement.
Applicants must submit applications electronically through the eGrants web-based management system.
The 2025 AmeriCorps State & National Mandatory Supplemental Information offers additional guidance on preparing and submitting applications for this funding opportunity.
Contact
For AmeriCorps State and National Native Nations
Grant application questions:
202-606-7508
americorpsgrants@cns.gov
Live chat
Rural Awards
Past awards communities received in fiscal year 2024 can be found on the program website.
Rural communities who have received funding include:
- Native Village of Selawik in Alaska
- Chinle Chapter Government in Arizona
- Families Working Together in Wanblee, South Dakota
- Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians in Red Lake, Minnesota
- Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates, North Dakota
Topics This Program Addresses
Community Planning and Coalition Building • Economic Development • Health and Wellness • Health Education for Community and Patients • Infrastructure • Mental Health • Pre-K to 12 Schools • Vocational Training, Education, and Employment