Through September 8, the Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service is accepting applications for AmeriCorps State Planning Grants to help organizations prepare to submit an application for a full AmeriCorps program grant.
AmeriCorps is a national service program that helps meet community needs. AmeriCorps grants are awarded on a competitive basis to help organizations manage an AmeriCorps program, which involves recruiting, training and supporting AmeriCorps and projects focused on organizational capacity-building, education, healthy futures, environmental stewardship, veterans and military families, economic opportunities, public safety, disaster preparedness/response and other community issues in Iowa.
For more information and application materials, go to www.iowagrants.gov and click on “Grant Opportunities.”