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$2.6 Million in Grants Expected to Leverage $5.2 Million in Non-Federal Funds
WASHINGTON, D.C – The Corporation for National and Community Service announced today that it will award a total of $2.6 million in “Challenge Grants” to six state, regional, and national nonprofit organizations to expand programs that engage volunteers in meeting community needs. The grants require that each Federal dollar awarded be “matched” by $2 in private funding.
The six organizations are: City Cares of America, a national organization based in Atlanta, Ga., that recently changed its name to the Hands On Network; Jumpstart, a national organization based in Boston, Mass.; United Way of America (for a project in Michigan); Plus Time New Hampshire; The Potter’s House of Dallas, Tex.; and Youth Friends of Kansas City, Mo. (for projects in Kansas, Missouri, and Michigan). The grants will support such activities as organizing and managing community volunteers; providing children with preschool training and after-school tutoring; working with ex-prisoners to facilitate their re-entry into society; and involving more minority women and girls in philanthropic and volunteer efforts.
“These grantees are some of the very best at both service innovation and financial sustainability,” said David Eisner, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service. "We are excited about the work they do and look forward to working with them to develop new sources of funding and to build effective and sustainable service and volunteer programs."
Each of the six organizations will receive a grant of between $400,000 and $500,000. All told, the grants are expected to support the efforts of more than 100,000 community volunteers, and “leverage” an additional $5.2 million in non-Federal funds.
The Corporation received 31 Challenge Grant applications, requesting nearly $18 million. The six organizations that will receive grants had requested slightly more than $4 million. A summary of the specific projects to be funded, and the amounts awarded, is attached.
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