Funding Opportunities

FY 2026 AmeriCorps State and National Funding Priorities

For this funding opportunity, AmeriCorps will prioritize consideration from organizations that:

Faith-Based

• Organizations that are faith-based.

Serve Communities

• Serve communities with concentrated poverty, rural communities, tribal communities, and historically underrepresented and underserved individuals. 
• Implement programs for or expand access to high-quality youth mental

Benefit AmeriCorps Members

• Serve communities with concentrated poverty, rural communities, and tribal communities.  
• 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 who have experienced substance use and mental health challenges.
• Focus on improving quality of life for veterans, active-duty members of the Armed Forces, and their families through models that provide effective interventions or services or that are designed to recruit veterans, military spouses, and their older children into national service, e.g., veterans serving in mentorship roles.  
• Focus on public safety, crime prevention, and/or partnerships between law enforcement and the community.
• Focus on expanding outdoor recreation opportunities for future generations by maintaining public lands; supporting wildland fire mitigation and sustainable forest management; and providing reforestation services.
• Create workforce pathways for AmeriCorps members, including deliberate training, such as pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship opportunities, certifications, and hiring preferences or support;
• Focus on strengthening families, e.g., activities that aim to support low-income parents through parenting education, responsible parenting and healthy relationship skills.

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.

AmeriCorps State FY25 (2025-2026) Funding Opportunity for New Applicants Only – Planning Grants (FY26 Coming Soon)

This funding opportunity provides planning grants to support organizations interested in engaging individuals as AmeriCorps members to help tackle community problems through service and volunteer action. This funding opportunity provides successful applicants with training and technical assistance and a federal planning grant up to $75,000 to design and develop new AmeriCorps programs that can address community problems and demonstrate impact through an evidence-informed or evidence-based approach.

FY25_AmeriCorps Hawaii Planning Grants Application and Instructions

Technical Assistance Information and Documents

If you are having technical difficulties with creating an account or preparing or submitting the application in eGrants, please contact the National Service Hotline at (800) 942-2677 or via Questions. For all other application questions, please contact hicncs@hawaii.edu

Multi-State (National Direct) Applicant Consultation

Prior to the submission of a grant application to the Corporation for National and Community Service, an organization proposing to operate an AmeriCorps program in two or more states is expected to consult with the State Commission of the state in which it intends to operate.  HCNCS is participating in the ASC National Direct Consultation single form to initiate and streamline consultation between multi-state applicants and state service commissions. Multi-state organizations proposing to operate in Hawai‘i must submit an online National Direct Consultation Form via the FY26 ASC National Direct Consultation form. 

ASC will host an informational webinar on Wednesday, November 5 at 3pm ET to review the FY26 process for AmeriCorps National Direct applicants and service commission staff. Register here.

HCNCS
Email: hicncs@hawaii.edu