NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release: Sept. 23, 2019
Information Contact: Renee Bade, (208) 332-3578 ext. 4061

Idaho nonprofit, educational, community and faith-based organizations, Indian tribes and local governments are eligible for federal funding through the Corporation for National and Community Service.

Serve Idaho, the Governor’s Commission on Service and Volunteerism, announced that interested organizations have until Nov. 8 to submit an application for the grants that would support the cost of running an AmeriCorps program. Individual grant awards vary in amount based on the size and complexity of the AmeriCorps programs.

A notice of intent to apply for a grant must be filed by 5 p.m. mountain time Oct. 4. A technical assistance call will be held Oct. 9 at 2 p.m. mountain time MDT.

Serve Idaho and the Corporation for National and Community Service provide funding for the following focus areas: disaster services, economic opportunity, education, environmental stewardship, healthy futures, veterans and military families.

More information on the grant opportunity is available at serveidaho.gov/grantsFunding.

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Serve Idaho, a division of the Idaho Department of Labor, encourages voluntary public service and volunteerism throughout the state. The Serve Idaho Commission is funded in part by the Corporation for National and Community Service and the Idaho Department of Labor.

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