Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 AmeriCorps Volunteer Generation Fund Grant

The Fiscal Year 2026 AmeriCorps Volunteer Generation Fund aims to enhance the engagement of volunteers in addressing critical community needs. By supporting organizations that improve volunteer recruitment and retention, this initiative strengthens the nation's volunteer infrastructure. Funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service, it promotes effective strategies for utilizing volunteers to tackle pressing social challenges, reinforcing the importance of service and civic engagement across the country.

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.
Through AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps Seniors, and the Volunteer Generation Fund (VGF), AmeriCorps has helped to engage millions of citizens in meeting community and national challenges through service and volunteer action. Authorized by the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act in 2009, this fund expands the role of AmeriCorps in strengthening the nation’s volunteer infrastructure. The Volunteer Generation Fund supports organizations to boost the impact of volunteers on critical community needs and rebuilding the volunteer infrastructure.
The Volunteer Generation Fund focuses on investments in volunteer engagement practices that strengthens entity’s ability to increase recruitment and retention of volunteers to meet critical community needs through service. AmeriCorps seeks to fund effective approaches that expand volunteering, strengthen the capacity of volunteer connector organizations to recruit and retain skill-based volunteers, and develop strategies to use volunteers effectively to solve community problems