AmeriCorps Rhode Island Grant Competition
ServeRI (Rhode Island Service Commission)
Rhode Island's service commission subgrants AmeriCorps State funds to organisations that design evidence-informed programmes addressing documented community needs, recruit and supervise members, and contribute matching funds. The explicit evidence-informed design requirement is the hook for research partnership — an applicant must justify its model against evidence, which is work a social work researcher can supply. The same page also maps the other national service doors (National Direct, VISTA, NCCC and AmeriCorps Seniors) for organisations whose fit is outside the state stream.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No award amounts are published on the grants page.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Aug, SepNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Annual. The page states only that ServeRI's next grant competition should be announced between 15 August and 15 September — an announcement window, not a published deadline, so no specific date is recorded. Watch the grants page through late summer.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Rhode Island organisations able to design an evidence-informed programme, recruit and supervise AmeriCorps members, and contribute matching funds; SAM.gov registration is required before applying. The commission is the subgrantor, so the applicant is the operating agency rather than a university; the VISTA route requires a concept paper before a full application, and NCCC partners supply housing while AmeriCorps covers other costs.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- evidence-informed programme design · national service · vista · anti-poverty capacity building
- Apply at
- https://serverhodeisland.com/grants
- 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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