AmeriCorps grants are awarded to eligible organizations proposing to engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions/practices to strengthen communities. An AmeriCorps member is an individual who engages 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 from the National Service Trust that members can use to pay for higher education expenses or apply to qualified student loans.

Serve Washington Funding Priorities

• Service strategies are driven by community identified priorities
• Organizations that are led and staffed by people that reflect the communities being served
• Programs that strive to recruit and select national service members that reflect communities being served
• Models that utilize service as a strategy to develop career pathways, address the housing crisis, support child wellness, and tackle climate change
• Replicate proven models that support a locally identified need
• Models that engage adults 55+
• Ensure resources are available to tribes, rural, and other underrepresented communities, and results in a geographically diverse portfolio of programs

AmeriCorps Focus Areas

• Disaster Services
• Economic Opportunity
• Education
• Environmental Stewardship
• Healthy Futures
• Veterans and Military Families

AmeriCorps Funding Priorities can be found at https://servewashington.wa.gov/sites/default/files/public/grant/ffy23_formula_new_recompete.pdf#page=4.