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AmeriCorps Volunteer Generation Fund 94.021

Program Information

Popular name

Volunteer Generation Fund 94.021

Program Number

94.021

Program objective

The Volunteer Generation Fund focuses on investments in volunteer management practices that strengthens nonprofit organizations and other entity’s ability to increase recruitment and retention of volunteers to meet critical community needs through service. AmeriCorps seeks to fund effective approaches that expand volunteering, strengthen the capacity of volunteer connector organizations to recruit and retain skill-based volunteers, and develop strategies to use volunteers effectively to solve community problems.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2022

    The Volunteer Generation Fund, authorized in 2009 under the Edward M Kennedy Serve America Act, supports organizations to boost the impact of volunteers on critical community needs by strengthening their recruitment and retention of volunteers. In Fiscal Year 2022, Volunteer Generation Fund grantees and subgrantees recruited more than 200,000 volunteers who served over 1.5 million hours in their communities.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

See program’s Notice of Federal Funding for specific regulations and guidelines.