The Administration on Aging offers a grant to establish a National Volunteer Resource Center to enhance the volunteer workforce within the Aging Network. This program aims to address the critical need for volunteers, especially older adults, to deliver services to the growing aging population. Building on past initiatives, this grant supports creating opportunities for older individuals to engage in civic activities and providing training for volunteers. The center will focus on developing effective models for engaging older volunteers in various roles, with a special emphasis on supporting grandparents raising grandchildren, families with special needs children, and caregivers of the elderly. Application deadline is June 3, 2014.
Opportunity ID: 254176
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | HHS-2014-ACL-AOA-CC-0068 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | National Volunteer Resource Center |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Income Security and Social Services |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Assistance Listings: | 93.048 — Special Programs for the Aging_Title IV_and Title II_Discretionary Projects |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | Yes |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Apr 22, 2014 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 03, 2014 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date. |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 03, 2014 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date. |
| Archive Date: | Jul 03, 2014 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $258,518 |
| Award Ceiling: | $258,518 |
| Award Floor: | $258,518 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | Domestic public or private non-profit entities including state and local governments, Indian tribal governments and organizations (American Indian/Alaskan Native/Native American), faith-based organizations, community-based organizations, hospitals, and institutions of higher learning. Individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship organizations are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Administration for Community Living |
| Description: | Older Americans Act (OAA) programs have always relied on volunteers as part of their workforce. Volunteers have been significant contributors to aging services network, serving at every level and in the delivery of all types of services. With a growing aging population, an increased need for critical services and reduced funding to meet the growing need, the AoA/ACL is challenged to mobilize the social capital of volunteers, especially older adults, and to deploy them as volunteers through the Aging Network. The Administration on Aging (AoA) is the lead partner of the National Network on Aging (the Aging Network). The Network consists of 56 State Units on Aging (SUAs), 629 Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs), 264 Tribal and Native organizations, some 20,000 service providers, and thousands of volunteers who operate a comprehensive system of home and community-based services for older individuals and their families. The 2002 amendments to the OAA included provisions to begin to address these volunteer issues. The amendments included a broad definition of civic engagement as “an individual or collective action designed to address a public concern or an unmet human, educational, health care, environmental, or public safety need.” It directed AAAs to make use of trained volunteers in providing direct services delivered to older individuals and individuals with disabilities needing such services. It encouraged creating opportunities for older individuals to participate in civic engagement activities and improving coordination of volunteer programs for older individuals. It also provided for a multi-generational/civic engagement demonstration grant focusing on discovering and documenting effective, sustainable, replicable exceptional local program models that positively impacted their target populations and demonstrated effective engagement of older volunteers in direct services and organizational, technical and developmental roles. Three populations were targeted: grandparents and other relatives raising grandchildren, families raising special needs children, or caregivers of frail, vulnerable elderly. Building on this earlier grant, in 2010 AoA awarded a Cooperative Agreement to the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a). N4a and its partners created the Aging Network’s Volunteer Collaborative at http://agingnetworkvolunteercollaborative.org/ to help the Aging Network more effectively use and expand the number of volunteers. The Collaborative assessed the needs and barriers to volunteering; offered technical assistance through workshops and webinars; built a virtual resource center consisting of a technical assistance clearinghouse, functionality for blogs, live on-line chats, polls, webinars, and public and private practice communities for learners. It awarded small incentive grants; implemented a national communications campaign; developed evaluation mechanisms to measure performance and developed a partnership with LexisNexis to reduce the cost for volunteer background checks. This Program Announcement builds upon the existing and previous grants and current knowledge about volunteerism. The AoA plans to award one cooperative agreement to support a National Volunteer Resource Center. This national volunteer center will develop and sustain volunteer workforce capacity within the Aging Network. |
| Link to Additional Information: | http://www.acl.gov/Funding_Opportunities/Announcements/Index.aspx |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Aiesha Gurley
aiesha.gurley@aoa.hhs.gov Email:aiesha.gurley@aoa.hhs.gov |
Version History
| Version | Modification Description | Updated Date |
|---|---|---|
Related Documents
Folder 254176 Full Announcement-1 -> hhs-2014-acl-aoa-cc-0068 foa.pdf
Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Aiesha Gurley aiesha.gurley@aoa.hhs.gov Email: aiesha.gurley@aoa.hhs.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93.048 | HHS-2014-ACL-AOA-CC-0068 | National Volunteer Resource Center | PKG00195630 | Apr 22, 2014 | Jun 11, 2014 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
254176 SF424_2_1-2.1.pdf
254176 Other-1.1.pdf
254176 SF424A-1.0.pdf
254176 SF424B-1.1.pdf
254176 PerformanceSite_1_4-1.4.pdf
254176 Project-1.1.pdf
254176 GG_LobbyingForm-1.1.pdf
Optional forms
254176 FaithBased_SurveyOnEEO-1.2.pdf
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