AmeriCorps Formula Grant NE

The AmeriCorps Formula Grant NE aims to strengthen communities in Nebraska through national service and volunteering. ServeNebraska mobilizes individuals to address critical needs in education, health, and economic opportunity. The 2024 funding initiative prioritizes partnerships that engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based interventions to tackle local challenges, while emphasizing racial equity and community representation. By investing in diverse organizations, AmeriCorps enhances civic engagement and fosters a culture of service across the nation.

Purpose of AmeriCorps State and National Funding
ServeNebraska mobilizes Nebraskans to strengthen their communities through volunteering, collaboration, and national service programs. ServeNebraska is committed to uniting individuals in service to their communities and achieving demonstrable results by funding AmeriCorps programs that address Nebraska’s unmet educational, economic, environmental, health, veterans, and disaster response needs. ServeNebraska receives federal funds from the AmeriCorps Agency to invest in AmeriCorps programs.
AmeriCorps improves lives, strengthens communities, and fosters civic engagement through service and volunteering. AmeriCorps brings people together to tackle some of the country’s most pressing challenges through national service and volunteerism. AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers serve with organizations dedicated to the improvement of communities and those serving.
The 2024 AmeriCorps Notice of Funding seeks to award AmeriCorps grants to eligible community partnerships that will engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions/practices to strengthen communities (e.g., based on the proposed program’s performance and evaluation data or research demonstrating the effectiveness of similar intervention) to address state and local community problems.
Funding Priorities
AmeriCorps released its 2022-2026 Strategic Plan which defines the agency’s goals and objectives to advance the agency’s mission to improve lives and strengthen communities. AmeriCorps will execute the following goals to better position the agency to respond to national and local needs and help the communities it serves prosper:
Partner with communities to alleviate poverty and advance racial equityEnhance the experience for AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Seniors volunteersUnite Americans by bringing them together in service Effectively steward federal resourcesMake AmeriCorps one of the best and most equitable places to work in the federal government.
AmeriCorps will invest in existing and new partnerships with non-profit, faith-based, and Tribal organizations, and State Service Commissions to get things done for America. The agency will prioritize investment in the most critical issues of our time — public health, climate and the environment, and education and economic opportunity — within AmeriCorps’ Focus Areas and will increase its efforts to ensure AmeriCorps members, AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers, and community-based volunteers reflect the communities where they serve. These steps will enable more Americans than ever to strengthen the communities that need it most across the nation through their service.