Deadline: 12-Aug-22
Contingent upon the receipt of federal funding, Volunteer Florida is pleased to announce the availability of 2022-2023 Volunteer Generation Fund (VGF) grant funding.
Volunteer Florida’s VGF program helps organizations to more effectively recruit, manage, support and retain skills-based volunteers. Skills-based volunteering is a strategic type of volunteerism that expands the impact of community organizations by engaging professionals from all industries, matching their experience, talents and education with the needs of nonprofits.
Volunteer Florida administers the Volunteer Generation Fund (VGF), an initiative of AmeriCorps that focuses investment on volunteer management practices that increase volunteer recruitment and retention. Volunteer Florida seeks to support local organizations to increase their capacity to recruit, manage, support, and retain skills-based volunteers to serve in high-value volunteer assignments.
Volunteer Florida’s VGF program will provide sub-grants to an estimate of twenty-four (24) organizations serving the needs of Floridians, and will also provide each organization with relevant, comprehensive training with an emphasis on increasing the number of skillsbased volunteers, service hours, and types of activities. Funding will strengthen the capacity of volunteer organizations to identify resources, challenges, and areas of need. Subgrantees will receive comprehensive training, funding for program enhancements and ongoing technical assistance, and coaching to establish or strengthen a skills-based volunteer program.
Funding Priorities
Volunteer Florida is soliciting proposals from Florida organizations that use volunteers to provide services in the following six (6) AmeriCorps priority areas:
- Disaster Services,
- Economic Opportunity,
- Education,
- Environmental Stewardship,
- Healthy Futures,
- Veterans and Military Families.
Funding Information
- In anticipation of federal funding for the VGF program for FY 2022- 2023, Volunteer Florida will make available up to $520,000 for an estimated twenty-four (24) organizations serving the needs of Floridians
- New applicant organizations and organizations in their second year of funding will be eligible to receive $20,000 in grant funding. Organizations entering their third year of VGF funding will be eligible to receive $24,000 in grant funding.
- New organizations, organizations entering their second year, and organizations entering their third year of funding should request $20,000 or $24,000, respectively.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible entities must be public or private nonprofit organizations, including faith based and other community organizations; institutions of higher education; governmental entities within states or territories (e.g., cities, counties); labor organizations; partnerships and consortia; or Indian Tribes. The FY 2022-2023 VGF program is intended to build capacity that will result in sustainable skills-based volunteer programs.
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Eligible entities must mobilize people and resources to deliver creative solutions to community problems through programs and services that encompass the following:
- Recognize that all volunteers have skills and talents to share;
- Connect people with opportunities to serve;
- Promote volunteering at all levels and ages; and
- Build or establish partnerships and collaboration among organizations in the community.
- The Volunteer Generation Fund cannot be used as an expansion of existing federally funded national service programs such as AmeriCorps or AmeriCorps Senior.
- Organizations receiving VGF program funds for more than three (3) years are not eligible for FY 2022-2023 VGF funding.
- Organizations receiving the following Volunteer Florida grants are not eligible for the FY 2022-2023 VGF funding: AmeriCorps, Florida Disaster Fund and Community Emergency Response Team (CERT).
For more information, visit Volunteer Florida.
For more information, visit https://www.volunteerflorida.org/vgf-grant-opportunities/