Rhode Island's ServeRI awards $1.45 million in AmeriCorps grants to eight organizations
The grants support 140 AmeriCorps members in schools and nonprofits working on education, housing, jobs and the environment, according to Providence Business News. Applications for the next three-year round are due Oct. 30.
Providence. ServeRI, Rhode Island's state commission for AmeriCorps, has awarded $1.45 million in AmeriCorps grants to eight organizations this year, Providence Business News reported on Oct. 26. The money supports 140 AmeriCorps members serving in schools and nonprofits on education, housing, workforce development and environmental needs, for a total of 196,809 paid service hours, according to the report.
The awards were announced on Oct. 26 at Rhode Island AmeriCorps Opening Day, hosted by the Rhode Island Department of Education. ServeRI's own page for the event describes it as the kickoff of a new year of service in the state.
Who runs the programs
ServeRI is the governor-appointed Rhode Island Commission for National and Community Service. It is housed at the Department of Education, whose staff supports it, and it runs the state's AmeriCorps grant competitions and monitors the programs they fund.
Its list of AmeriCorps programs in Rhode Island includes Accessing Home, run by NeighborWorks Blackstone River Valley in Woonsocket, whose members work as resident services coordinators and advocate for tenants at risk of eviction; Highlander Charter School in Providence, where members serve in classrooms and lead after-school activities; Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England; Refugee Youth Solidarity through Education, which runs a summer learning camp for refugee children; Skills for Rhode Island's Future; TerraCorps, which places members with land conservation and farm groups; and Teach For America. AS220, the Providence arts organization, is listed as a new AmeriCorps program starting this fall.
Neither ServeRI's site nor the part of the report open to nonsubscribers says which eight organizations received this year's grants or how much each one received.
The next round
ServeRI is now taking applications for its next AmeriCorps program grants, three-year awards paid for by the federal fiscal 2027 AmeriCorps State and National program. Nonprofits, school districts, local governments and colleges that will operate only in Rhode Island apply to ServeRI. Applications are due Oct. 30 at 5 p.m. Eastern, successful applicants will be notified Dec. 4, and no grant may start before July 1, 2027.
Awards are figured by member service years of at least 1,700 hours each, at up to $26,800 per service year for most grants, and the actual amounts depend on what Congress appropriates. In 2026 a full-time member's living allowance ranges from $20,954 to $41,908, and the education award a member earns on finishing is $7,395, according to ServeRI's Sept. 17 presentation to applicants.
Since 1994, ServeRI says, 9,000 Rhode Island residents have served more than 12 million hours in AmeriCorps and earned $32 million in education benefits.
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