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2025 College Corps Education Award Only Expansion Pilot Request for Applications

Grantor:
CA Volunteers
Portal ID:
144306
Status:
Closed
Open Date:
7/28/25 00:00
Opportunity Type:
  • Grant
Last Updated:
Categories:

Details

Purpose:

The 2025 College Corps Education Award Only Expansion Pilot Request for Applications (RFA) seeks to provide additional education award only slots to eligible applicants to expand eligibility requirements, ensuring that more students have access to College Corps programming.

Slots and education award dollars available under this RFA are awarded on a competitive basis to eligible organizations that adequately address the selection criteria.

Description:

The 2025 College Corps Education Award Only Expansion Pilot Request for Applications (RFA) seeks to provide additional education award only slots to eligible applicants to expand eligibility requirements, ensuring that more students have access to College Corps programming.

Slots and education award dollars available under this RFA are awarded on a competitive basis to eligible organizations that adequately address the selection criteria.

Eligibility Requirements

Eligible Applicants:

  • Other Legal Entity

Organizations that meet the following criteria are eligible to apply for this opportunity:

Applicants must be an institution of higher education and must have a valid SAM registration and UEI to receive an award.
Be the legal applicant of a current California Volunteers College Corps program that has been approved to operate through 2026.
Demonstrate capacity to expand 2025-26 cohort by a minimum of 5 slots and a maximum of 20 slots.

Important Dates

The date (and time, where applicable) by which all applications must be submitted to the grantmaker. Time listed as “00:00” equates to midnight.
The date on which the grantor expects to announce the recipient(s) of the grant.
8/15/2025
The length of time during which the grant money must be utilized.
12/31/2026

Funding Details

The total projected dollar amount of the grant.
See Notes Below
A single grant opportunity may represent one or many awards. Some grantors may know in advance the exact number of awards to be given. Others may indicate a range. Some may wish to and wait until the application period closes before determining how many awards to offer; in this case, a value of “Dependent” will display.
Dependent
Grant opportunities representing multiple awards may offer awards in the same amount or in varied amounts. Some may wish to wait until the application period closes before determining per-award amounts; in this case, a value of “Dependent” will display.
$20,000 – $80,000
Certain grants require that the recipient(s) provide a letter of intent.
Yes ( see Description for details )
Certain grants require that the recipient(s) be able to fully or partially match the grant award amount with another funding source.
No

Available Funding Notes:

Funds associated with this RFA may not be used for Fellow costs (i.e. livingallowance) as these slots are Education Award Only slots. Applicants may submit requests for administrative costs at a maximum of $4,000 per Fellow. Each applicant’s funding request to support program administration is determined by multiplyingthe number of Fellows by $4,000 per Fellow (example: 10 Fellows X $4,000 = $40,000). 

The funding source allocated to fund the grant. It may be either State or Federal (or a combination of both), and be tied to a specific piece of legislation, a proposition, or a bond number.
  • Federal and State
The manner in which the grant funding will be delivered to the awardee. Funding methods include reimbursements (where the recipient spends out-of-pocket and is reimbursed by the grantor) and advances (where the recipient spends received grant funds directly).
  • Reimbursement(s)

How to Apply

State agencies/departments recommend you read the full grant guidelines before applying.

Resources

For questions about this grant, contact:
1-916-323-7646, funding@cv.ca.gov

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