AmeriCorps Maryland Notices of Funding Opportunity (including Workforce Development Planning Grants)
Maryland Department of Service and Civic Innovation
Maryland's cabinet-level service department runs three AmeriCorps subgrant lines: competitive operational grants, formula operational grants, and a Workforce Development Planning Grant that funds a six-month design period for a new AmeriCorps programme built around a defined member career pathway. The planning grant is the notable one for research partnerships — it pays for programme design, needs assessment and measurement architecture rather than member positions, which is precisely the work a social work researcher is equipped to do alongside a community agency.
- Indicative award
- up to $240k (total award)Workforce Development Planning Grants are published as up to $240,000 for a six-month planning period; the page states these support programme development only and do not fund member positions. Operational grant amounts vary with the number of members and no ceiling is published.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Feb, Apr, MayNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Annual, staggered by line. For the 2026 cycle: competitive operational grants closed 27 February 2026 (intent 13 February 2026), formula operational grants closed 22 April 2026 with programmes anticipated to start 15 August 2026, and the revised planning grant deadline was 18 May 2026 for a planning
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Organisations placing AmeriCorps members in Maryland. Formula operational grants require the applicant to support at least the equivalent of 20 full-time AmeriCorps members in the first year, a substantial scale gate that rules out small agencies; some opportunities require matching funds. Planning grant applicants must propose a new programme embedding workforce attributes into the service term. New competitive applicants must file an expression of intent ahead of the deadline. Applications run through grants.americalearns.net/serve-maryland.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- workforce development · career pathways · programme planning · national service
- Apply at
- https://dsci.maryland.gov/americorps-md/notice-funding-opportunities
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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