California Volunteers announces AmeriCorps Funding Opportunities

CaliforniaVolunteers (CV) is the state office that manages programs and initiatives designed to increase the number of Californians engaged in service and volunteering. Each year, as the state service commission, CV awards AmeriCorps grants to nonprofit and public agencies that identify an unmet need in their community that will be addressed by AmeriCorps members that the organization recruits, trains, and manages.

In the FY 2010 grant competition, the funding priorities are projects that address compelling, unmet needs in one or a combination of the following five national service priority areas:

• Education: Unmet educational needs that help children and youth achieve success in school and prevent them from dropping out before high school graduation.
  
• Healthy Futures: Unmet health needs including access to health care, disease prevention and health promotion initiatives, and health literacy.
  
• Clean Energy/Environment: Unmet energy-efficiency and environmental needs.
  
• Veterans: Unmet needs of veterans, members of the Armed Forces who are on active duty, and family members of deployed military personnel and engages veterans in service.
  
• Opportunity: Unmet needs relating to economic opportunity for economically disadvantaged individuals within communities including financial literacy, housing assistance, job training, and nutritional assistance.