FY 2026 Volunteer Generation Fund
AmeriCorps (Corporation for National and Community Service)
A federal fund investing in volunteer management practice — recruitment, retention, training and infrastructure for volunteer-engaging organisations — administered through state service commissions, which in turn subgrant to nonprofits in their states. Because the fund is explicitly about improving volunteer management practice, it is one of the few national service streams that routinely supports practice-improvement studies, needs assessments and capacity evaluation of the volunteer workforce, an area of direct interest to social work researchers studying informal helping and organisational
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No per-award figure recorded. The americorps.gov page returned HTTP 403 to this sweep, so no amount is asserted.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · MayNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Annual. The FY2026 notice was amended on 27 April 2026 with an extended deadline of 4 May 2026, now passed; successful applicants were to be notified in July 2026. Subgrant rounds run by individual state commissions follow on their own schedules.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- The federal competition is open only to State Service Commissions — a university, a nonprofit and a researcher are all ineligible to apply directly. The route in for a community organisation or an academic partner is a subgrant or an evaluation contract from a funded state commission; contact your Governor-appointed commission about its subgrant round.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- volunteer management · volunteer recruitment · volunteer retention · nonprofit capacity
- Apply at
- https://www.americorps.gov/funding-opportunity/fy-2026-volunteer-generation-fund
- 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.
Also on the Communities and Neighborhoods shelf
- Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (DDRIG)National Science Foundationup to $50k · Varies by programme
- Sociology ProgramNational Science Foundation$100k–$500k · Rolling / open
- Disability and aging research and demonstration grantsAdministration for Community Living$200k–$4M · Annual cycle
- Research grants and visiting scholarsRussell Sage Foundationup to $200k · Several times a year · Jan, May, Aug
- Active funding opportunitiesRobert Wood Johnson Foundation$100k–$1.5M · Periodic calls
- Faculty grant programLois and Samuel Silberman Fundup to $50k · Annual cycle