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INTERAGENCY COORDINATING GROUP
FOR ADULT LITERACY |
Funding Database: Search Result
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| Agency/Office |
Corporation for National and Community Service |
| Program Name |
AmeriCorps |
| CFDA Number |
94.006 |
| Program Description |
AmeriCorps programs provide support in addressing the pressing education, public safety, human, and environmental needs of our Nation's communities by encouraging Americans to serve either part or full-time. AmeriCorps members develop and lead after school programs, work with community volunteers to develop community service projects, provide ESL/adult education instruction, work at One-Stop Career Centers, assist in immunization projects, renovate housing in low-income areas, tutor elementary children, and staff a crisis help-line for parents of at-risk children. |
| Eligible Grantees |
States, Tribes, Territories, national nonprofit organizations, professional corps, and multi-state organizations may apply. Through an RFP process, AmeriCorps selects intermediary grantees for funding of programs in the state or multi-state area. The grantee administers and monitors AmeriCorps programs subgranted out to national and local nonprofits, schools, faith-based and other community organizations, and public agencies in the perscribed areas. |
| Eligible Beneficiaries |
States, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Tribes, Territories, national nonprofit organizations, professional corps, and multi-state organizations. |
| Historic Appropriation Level (in 000s) |
$264,825 |
| Eligible Activities |
Examples of the type of work AmeriCorps volunteers undertake include: working as intake workers at One-Stop Career Centers, teaching and designing ESL lesson plans, and adult literacy curriculum. |
| Program Contact |
Kristen McSwain, Director
(202) 606-6926
kmcswain@cns.gov |
| Program URL |
http://www.nationalservice.gov |
Last Modified: 01/29/2007
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