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Submitting Your Application Via eGrants

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15:32:27 >> Thank you so much for attending today's webinar on Submitting 

Your Application Via eGrants. This is required Notice of Funding Opportunity.

15:32:43 Hello and thank you for learning with us today. My name is Debra 

Truchon program officer for AmeriCorps Seniors. It's a pleasure to host a 

webinar.
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15:33:06 Today I am joined by my colleague, Calynn and Emily. I want to 

welcome you to the AmeriCorps Seniors -- the FGP and SCP replace an 

opportunity.

15:33:19 We have these two opportunities going on at the same time. It's an 

opportunity available right now and I'm excited about these opportunities 

because it's a great time to expand and meet the needs of our communities.

15:33:45 I want to share more preliminaries with you. We mentioned adding 

questions to the Q&A pod. I want to hit that home if you have any questions as 

we go through the webinar, submit them in the Q&A. That helps track all 

questions and answer most common and if we can't get to all of them, we will 

have your email and a way to contact you.

15:34:16 It helps us as we add to the FAQs if needed. If we don't get to your 

question or you process what you learn today, feel free to email either American 

rescue, americanrescuesdp@cns.gov or with the question or the 

2022FGPSCPExpansion@cns.gov for the replacement opportunity.

15:34:24 The opportunity of funding pages have all information you need to 

success application and those of been added to the chatbox.

15:34:44 This is a series 6 webinars that will help you through the process. All 

recordings are posted on each opportunity funding page a week from the 

recording. All sessions are being recorded and posted on the opportunity of 

funding pages.

15:35:04 Today we are reviewing how to submit your application in eGrants and I 

recommend you review this list and if you have questions related to what is FGP 

or you want to learn more about American rescue opportunity, we have specific 

webinars for those.

15:35:15 We have some polls. Answer questions so we could get to know you.

15:35:29 How well do you know AmeriCorps Seniors? Couple questions --

couple seconds to answer the question.
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15:35:58 Looks like we have some brand-new folks in welcome and happy that 

you're here. We have some fairly new and some experience folks on the call. 

Thank you so much.

15:36:15 Next question -- how did you hear about us? Couple seconds to 

respond to that one.

15:36:23 Thank you for participating.

15:36:41 Looks like the most common is our emails and glad that our emails are 

working and that you have your networks working where you could share 

information about our program.

15:36:57 Next question -- how would you describe the primary [indiscernible] of 

your organization?

15:37:36 All right. Looks like we have a good range. Aging, volunteerism, 

community development, something else but looks good and thank you for your 

comments.

15:37:40 Thank you for coming and bringing your expertise.

15:37:53 Next question -- are you interested in applying for one or more of the 

following opportunities?

15:38:19 We have the foster grandparents and senior companion replacement 

opportunities. They own -- they both have their own notices and then we have 

American rescue Senior Demonstration Program open currently and you could 

apply for one of them or [indiscernible] of them -- multiple of them.

15:38:42 A lot of you said American rescue Senior Demonstration Program. 

Encouraging to see that some of you are applying for multiple. Thank you.

15:39:04 For our content today, we will go over some opportunity basics and do 

a quick -- focus on entering your application.

15:39:11 We will shift focus to the electronic grants management system called 

eGrants.

15:39:31 We are currently accepting applications for AmeriCorps Seniors 

American rescue Senior Demonstration Program and the American seniors 

Foster Grant and and senior companion replacement opportunity.
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15:39:38 You could go into the system and begin your application or submit 

application between now and February 3 by 5 PM Eastern standard Time.

15:40:10 On the screen, a screenshot of the American rescue demonstration 

program -- sorry -- Appendix A for the American senior rescue demonstration 

plan and from this you could see it list the states that may have one or more 

priority areas.

15:40:29 This is low vaccination rates, counties with high to extreme poverty 

level and veteran services and engagement. Applicants are not limited to the 

states and counties on Appendix A. You may apply for a county that meets the 

priorities of the American rescue SDP.

15:40:37 There is priority on this list of Appendix A but for this opportunity, you 

can apply for county outside of this appendix.

15:41:08 Let's look at the foster grant part -- the foster grant senior companion 

replacement opportunity. On this Appendix A are the counties up for award. All 

applicants must apply for area listed on one of these Appendix A due to its 

replacement opportunity. The difference between American Rescue Plan is you 

must follow this and submit application that has at least one of the counties as 

listed.

15:41:22 One of the resources you use, many of your first questions are likely 

along the lines of what you're seeing on the screen.

15:41:46 How long is the award, review process, match requirements, what 

information should I include on my application, what kinds of projects AmeriCorps 

is hoping to fund, vast majority of these answers are included in the Notice of 

Funding Opportunity. This is gateway to the opportunity.

15:42:07 The notice intra to the opportunity and that means all information you 

need will either be available in this document or linked in the document of the 

NOFO. The NOFO can be referred to as the NOFO, the NOFA or the notice.

15:42:21 These are all the same. This is where you want to start. Read it and 

know it upside down and backwards and it's a critical document.
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15:42:30 We are adding to the chart the two opportunities of funding pages that 

have the notice of fund and information. We have added those links to the 

chatbox.

15:42:58 Whether you are applying for the American Rescue Plan, you have your 

own funding opportunity page and your own notice and if you apply for foster 

grandparents or senior companion, those are on the same funding opportunity 

page but they both have their own notice that you want to read independently.

15:43:31 Here are resources to get you through the application process. In 

addition to the NOFO or notice, there's other resources very important for you. 

Appendix A which I refer to as is list of available opportunities.

15:43:47 If you are applying for American Rescue Plan, SDP project, apply for 

counties not listed on Appendix A but if you are applying for foster grant a or and 

or senior companion, you must apply for area as listed on Appendix A.

15:44:01 Please refer to the notice. We have Appendix B which a plane -- which 

explains national performance measures in-depth. We offer webinar on this topic 

that goes more in detail on the performance measures and how they apply to the 

program you're interested in.

15:44:15 We will cover that more detail in future webinars. We have appendix C 

in this to review the terms for AmeriCorps Senior programs.

15:44:42 There's the grant application instructions. It's a step-by-step guide to 

navigate electronic grants management system. EGrants. Within that document, 

we have the work plan development worksheet, which is helpful when you try to 

think about how you plan your activities and how you can communicate your plan 

to AmeriCorps Seniors.

15:45:14 That's located in the grant application instructions. Finally we have the 

FAQs. We update as questions come in that are most common. We use the 

email boxes americanrescuesdp@cns.gov and the 2022 -- and the 

2022FGPSCPExpansion@cns.gov for questions.

15:45:37 Moving into eGrants key tools and tips. We have preliminaries out-ofthe-way so now we want to think of key tools for using eGrants. EGrants is 
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electronic grant system and it helps us get information and standardize way so 

you could use that to aggregate things.

15:45:47 It makes it easy and quick to get results back. This is technological 

system and likely any system you need to keep a few things in mind when using 

it.

15:46:05 I know we have some folks who have used the system before. We have 

majority that have not so I'm hoping that [indiscernible] on the call will be helpful 

and put into the chatbox any tips and tricks you have used to help you navigate 

and enter information into eGrants.

15:46:17 Which one of you have any thoughts on what is helpful when working in 

the system? Put in the chat, put the suggestions in there.

15:46:34 Anybody? I thought there was at least nine.

15:46:49 That's okay. Don't wait until the last minute is a good one. Anybody 

else?

15:47:02 Work with others is a good suggestion and work within the agency.

15:47:17 I will share some of my tips. Use word document is going to be one of 

them.

15:47:38 Save often, save often in the system and those are very true and it's the 

most important thing you could do. Do you work in word processing application, 

WordPerfect, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, whatever you use to type out your 

documentation and then cut and paste into eGrants.

15:47:58 EGrants is not great competition -- is not a great composition tool. It is 

great to pass on information. The help desk is your friend. There's a hotline and 

technical issue, the help desk is your friend and information to contact that is all 

listed.

15:48:09 I think you hit the major points of making sure you don't wait until the 

last minute and using word and cut and paste but the help desk is your friend. 

Prepare to submit application well in advance.
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15:48:23 That's important. Well in advance of the deadline. At least 10 days in 

advance because it's electronic system and sometimes things happen that may 

hold up the system.

15:48:52 If you could have the deadline earlier, most likely you will get it 

submitted. That goes hand in hand with submitting on time and let's say you 

came across something and it's February 3 at 4:25 PM and you call the help 

desk and they are addressing other people, it pushes the deadline and makes 

things stressful.

15:49:17 Try to submit early. The next one goes along with the first one, there's a 

work development plan worksheet you could use to plan out the national 

performance measures. We talked about that in one of the previous webinars if 

you attended national performance measures, we have those coming in the 

future as well as repeats.

15:49:26 There's a template you could use to write out your goals based on using 

the Appendix B, national performance measures to help you with that.

15:49:52 Before submitting your application, print it from eGrants if possible. 

There's a 15 page limit. How you will know the pages of your application is by 

printing it out from the electronic system itself and that's how you will know how 

long your actual application is, view it before you submit it.

15:49:58 If you have problems using National Service hotline, that is so important 

and I will take a second and navigate to where the contact information is.

15:50:36 Emily, could you pull the contact information and put it in the chatbox? 

Sorry. We will get that for you guys. When it comes to technical issues, such as if 

you are confused about the notice, or need information from the webinar, you 

can email American rescuesdp@cncs.gov

15:50:53 It's the place to submit your question or how the programming is but it's 

not place for technical issues within eGrants. Use National Service hotline for 

that. You could get the contact information when submitting application.

15:51:00 Moving into step-by-step walk-through.
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15:51:26 Now that we have those tips and tricks out-of-the-way. Let's enter 

eGrants. This is the first screen you will see when you enter eGrants. Create an 

account first if you have not already. I will not go into detail on how to create 

account but there's information on that with the grant application instructions.

15:51:37 Create an account before you get to the next stage. Thank you, Emily, 

for putting helpdesk information into the chatbox for everyone.

15:51:56 We will log in and you will see this page and this is the system we use 

to create a new application and it's also the system where the grants live.

15:52:17 If you are awarded AmeriCorps AARP American Rescue Plan SDP 

grant or foster grant or senior companion replacement grant, you will manage a 

grant in many different ways and through the system. You will see the 

information here and it's not just unique to ACS but all the programs used for 

applications.

15:52:47 It will ask you for the NOFO or NOFA or notice and go to the drop down 

and look for FY 2022 American senior ARP senior demonstration project starting 

July or the FY 2022 American seniors FGP or SCP replacement and that will get 

you started. It will take you to the screen that looks like this.

15:53:03 If you look at the left, this is outline of everything you will need to 

submit. On the left you have outline of all information you need to submit for your 

application. It is similar to the notice.

15:53:20 Is automatically populated based on the NOFA or notice of information 

and it will pull the account you created and you want to make sure it's all correct.

15:53:27 We will circle back at the end of the process and talk about authorized 

representatives. We will work our way through the outline. It's going to start with 

narratives.

15:53:52 You could see narrative section has a number of subsections. In the 

chat, how should I learn what I should put in each subsection? Where might 

echo and find information AmeriCorps Seniors looking for in each subsection? 

Where would I find out for each notice or for each narrative on what is required? 

In the chat.
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15:54:34 Click on items of the list, that's a good idea. Any other ideas? You will 

use your notice. In the criteria section we listed out all the different sections and 

what's required. In eGrants what you have is standard system and then as we 

create the notice, we specify what might go into those sections so each 

application may not be similar in what is being asked in each narrative.

15:54:38 You can also use grant application instructions to help you walk through 

but within that, it will refer you to the notice. So thank you for your responses.

15:55:07 We hope you will attend or watch performance webinar when we review 

how they are important about this application. This is where you tell what you will 

do project specific outputs and outcomes targets and tell us how many 

unduplicated volunteers or volunteer service years you are going to involve in 

each activity to give us the extent of the scope of your work.

15:55:29 This is structured into the build more than written. Let's see what that 

looks like when you enter the work plan section. This is what you will see. It's a 

blank and then click on this to get started. Once you get started, you have the 

opportunity to build things out.

15:55:59 The first thing you will need to do is select objectives and focus area. 

When you attend the folk -- when you attend the webinar, you will learn more 

about the focus areas and what they are and what they how will match the focus 

activity. Within each focus area, there's more specific objectives.

15:56:04 What we see here like education is a focus area and objectives appear 

underneath that. This is waterfall menu. When you click on one of the titles, you 

will see objectives.

15:56:27 We don't see healthy features or objectives underneath healthy futures 

because we did not click on it. If we did, we would see those. This is a great 

place to point out how important it is to develop work plans before you go into 

eGrants by using the work plan development sheet found in eGrant application 

instructions.

15:56:41 I will select for my objectives and then I could come back later and add 

more if I want but this will send me on the task to get the system for information.
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15:56:52 If I did not click everything I need, it will be complicated to go back.

15:56:55 Couple other things I will note. This screenshot for education focus 

areas and for those of you apply for healthy futures, it will look like this but have 

healthy futures marked off.

15:57:20 Once I have done that, I could click on next and it will take me to the 

screen. Now you will not see anything so at the top because it's meant to 

summarize what you have built.

15:57:37 When you start out you come to the screen first time, it's blank because 

you have to build out additional items.

15:57:39 One of the most common issues that we see in this stage is assuming 

that the size of the text box that you see on the screen indicates how much 

information we want. That's not the case. To understand what to put in these 

fields, look at the grant application instruction.

15:58:04 They give you what a complete community need definition is and you 

want to meet the requirements on the side of the field of the screen has nothing 

to do with the amount of space that you have. You will make sure you answer all 

questions and fill it in but just because you see the square size, does not limit 

you from entering more information.

15:58:28 You want to type it out and then cut and paste. What you put on -- what 

you put out on one stage of process will filter through to the next screen. We 

have jumped ahead at the screen to simulate what it looks like when you have 

entered several of the fields.

15:58:44 Build them in the screen providing information here. What you will do 

after this is start to choose your output outcome target and allocate volunteer 

service years for stipended program for unduplicated volunteers for nonstipended program.

15:59:03 We have had to go through the screen for each one of the 4 work plans 

that you see here. For this application, we have built 4 work plans on the last 

screen and now we want to add the VSYs and put those outcomes target.
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15:59:19 Enter targets but I could not it was locked. Once I changed the project 

total number from zero to number of VSYs, we can allocate the target.

15:59:35 We have done that for this example as we put 100 to keep it simple. 

Now it's time to fill out the rest of the fields.

15:59:59 Can anyone tell me how you would get the output and outcome target? 

Where did those come from? How do you figure it out of what you want to enter 

as output outcome target? Anybody have any ideas how to approach that?

16:00:30 Would that be the number of [indiscernible]? How would you determine 

that for yourself? You would want to identify number of [indiscernible].

16:00:49 Through Appendix B could be a great resource, assessing community 

needs reflecting on the scope of narrative. You want to make sure those match 

up, absolutely. And then the NOFO could help.

16:01:19 We would start up with the best guess at what you could accomplish. 

From past experiences, using resources, researching different stations, 

expectation, what we are looking for as you are on the right track of trying to 

figure out to assess what program is asking you to do and what I could actually 

do, I may shy away from [indiscernible], it's more of a projection.

16:01:50 You want to do a research that is indicating about what we think we will 

achieve in a given year. You will project that during similar work and build off of it 

and or you have been working and may be partnering with other stations and 

community partners, advisory board doing the work generally know how many 

families, how many children or maybe how many in need and then use that 

information to create your target.

16:02:38 How many do you think will experience this change in their lives as a 

result of that is what is art -- of what is the outcome target is? Unduplicated 

volunteers or volunteer service years, for the purpose of a stipended American 

rescue SDP and the FGP SCP and -- replacement application think of VSYs and 

then if you are doing application for unduplicated volunteers, those would be on 

stipended -- those will be non-stipended for American rescue opportunity.
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16:03:06 For now, we will say VSYs we will have up to 100 in the outcome. This 

is when talking about how many VSYs you must put into a national performance

measures. Can anyone remind me of that figure? You want to divide the amount 

you are applying for by what?

16:03:28 If you are applying for the American Rescue Plan and you are doing a 

stipended program, you would do 7500. Any other ideas?

16:04:15 If you're doing unduplicated volunteers so non-stipended program, it's 

$1000 per amount you are requesting. For the FGP SCP replacement 

opportunity, it's a different amount. That is 6500 per request that amount so 

American Rescue Plan, SDP unduplicated volunteers is $1000 per amount you 

are requesting if you aren't going to provide stipended opportunity, to $1000 and 

if you do stipended program, you would have $7500 per amount you are 

requesting.

16:04:21 If you do replacement opportunities for fostering a pair and or senior 

companion, the cost [indiscernible] per VSY is 6500.

16:04:56 So the system will give you some summary charts and tables. There 

are FYIs and they help you to look at the information. They do not tie directly to 

any of our requirements.

16:05:14 It's more just to help you. When you click on validating performance 

measures, that will check to make sure you completed all information needed to 

complete this. It will not check to see how many unduplicated volunteers or VSYs 

your program into your national performance measures. It will not look at 

community need section. It will just check to make sure the information is 

complete.

16:05:27 After you validate the performance measures, it will check to make sure 

everything is okay. You will go back to the full application by clicking that button 

right here.

16:05:59 You have a section of the required documents and this is like a 

checklist for you. You will send this information via email of either 

americanrescuesdp@seencs.gov or the 2022 FGP SCP replacement@cncs.gov.
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16:06:21 They do not update automatically. You have to go back and tell us the 

information again and it's a checklist. Go through them for the instruction. You 

will see a full list and it doesn't mean you have to submit every document on the

list.

16:06:32 Review the NOFO and it's the key to tell you what documents are 

required. For this application. You don't want to waste time submitting documents 

that are not needed.

16:06:56 I want to review to documents required for all applications. The

application operational and financial management survey or the OFMS, required 

for all applications in these opportunities regardless if you have a current grant or 

not.

16:07:32 Some incumbents may have completed financial management survey 

referred to as FMS in the past. That does not count. You need to complete 

OFMS. It is different than the FMS and will not be [indiscernible]. The form needs 

to be completed in full in response to every question and if there's additional 

comments needed to explain your response, you should use prepared comments 

section.

16:08:04 I want to note it must be submitted in a Word document. We will not 

accept PDF. The word document makes a compatible to the system we use to 

pull information into a created system. Please note it must be in word. The next 

document we have is a diversity questionnaire.

16:08:12 This form is an online system. You must submit information that covers 

organizational structure and the program you plan to apply for. You must submit 

that as well. Through this survey.

16:08:31 Get to the budget section and this is the next section of application. The 

budget section is divided into two screens. To enter information, add in new 

budget item for some of the fields.

16:08:59 For others, you will see that they are prebuilt and you have to -- you just 

click edit. Something you could add lines for but some things are built in and click 

edit button and this will help you put in budget information.
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16:09:05 There's a helpful budget compliance checklist in the application 

instructions to assist you in the process. I recommend when you work through it 

or you think you're finished, walk through the one time just to make sure you 

covered everything you need.

16:09:33 I also want to recommend one of the trainings that we already have 

posted on each of the funding opportunities is the best practice in budget 

development and for more information on budget, I recommend it highly. For the 

office of grant administration, did a great job preparing all the information and is 

highly recommended you review that.

16:10:16 Finally we get to authorize and submit screen. I mentioned at the 

beginning of webinar that authorized representative screen is important. This 

needs to can be -- this needs to be completed by a person that could legally bind 

their organization to this contractually. The title of the person will vary. It may 

vary but the key thing is it needs to be a person who has ability to bind the 

organization in a legal capacity.

16:10:45 In many cases that may not be the person completing the application. 

You will have to create an account for that as a representative who has their own 

SCParate account. If you happen to be the one is submitting preparing the 

application but you have a supervisor or president or director that has to sign off 

on it, they will need their own account.

16:10:45 You may want to plant the seed for them in advance so that account 

can be created and ready to go when you are ready to submit the application.

16:11:21 We have in the FAQs, one of the questions, it is 4.1, how do I enter my 

authorized representative name and application? They have to sign in with their 

own user account. They could do that by creating their own account. I have it 

here in the application instructions showing that tool from earlier you could see 

the instructions will help you process it quickly by doing step-by-step to create 

the account.

16:11:25 Refer to grant application instruction how to create account for the 

representative.
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16:11:46 We will put up a poll for you. I will work through any questions you guys 

may have.

16:12:35 >> While folks are responding, there's a question related to Appendix 

A. Debbie, please correct me, if I answer this incorrectly. For folks who are 

interested in applying for the American Rescue Plan AmeriCorps Seniors 

demonstration project, if your county is not listed on Appendix A, you are eligible 

to apply, however, if you're interested in applying for the foster grant, Senior 

Companion Program, your county must be listed in Appendix A in order for you to 

be eligible to apply.

16:12:36 How did I do?

16:13:19 >> You are on point. That's the difference between these opportunities. 

Appendix A for American Rescue Plan is not as binding. You can apply for other 

areas and you want to be able to demonstrate how those areas still meet 

priorities of the notice and Emily is correct in FGP SCP has to be on those 

appendix because those are replacements and those are areas over the last year 

had program and had opportunity for volunteers and we would like to put 

program back in that area to continue the opportu

16:13:20 Great job.

16:13:47 >> Another question -- related to budgets and non-stipended 

volunteers. If you apply for $10,000 and you don't pay your volunteers, is it 

correct that you would need to have at least 100 unduplicated volunteers?

16:13:52 >> Let me do the math again.

16:13:57 >> $10,000 in the budget, a stipended.

16:13:59 [Crosstalk]

16:14:26 >> I think you meant to put 100,000 extra funding request and then, 

yes, if you plan to do non-stipended opportunity that would be not paid, you 

would need at least 100 unduplicated volunteers to plug into your national 

performance measures.

16:14:46 >> Thank you. Also have a couple questions about when the webinar 

recording will be available and where? Where it will be available on the funding 
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opportunity page? And we expect that the recording will be available in about 

one week?

16:15:13 >> Yes, that's correct. We have the amazing team on the call right now 

transcribing everything I am saying. As well is what is written on the screen and 

both in English and in Spanish. So I've said a lot today and they need time to 

prepare the document so that we could post them on the website.

16:15:34 There are the two pages that you're interested to view. Where you 

registered for the trainings is where you will find the webinars. If this is the last 

webinar opportunity, we will quote the registration and then add the YouTube link 

as well as the closed captioning in English and in Spanish so you can access 

those and come back and review them.

16:16:05 You either go to the American rescue STP page funding opportunity 

page for that information at least a week out from today or go to the foster 

grandparents senior companion funding opportunity page and go to the section 

of the technical assistance and then you will see the YouTube video, closed 

captioning in English and Spanish. Give us at least a week to get that.

16:16:38 >> Thank you. One more question related to eGrants. If you have 

executive director who will act as legally binding signer of the agreement, when 

they create their account, will they have access to the application that you have 

already put together, or do you have to build your application again in their 

eGrants account?

16:16:58 >> The grant application instructions will give you guidance on how to 

set up the representative account so it links to the application already started and 

they need to either review or sign off on it. It will be able to connect.

16:17:16 >> Thank you. The last question that we have although folks may type 

a few more in is, is there a minimum of nine hours that each volunteer needs to 

contribute during the grant period?

16:17:49 >> That's a question that's unique depending on what you are applying 

for. For unduplicated volunteer, non-stipended volunteer, they have their own 

requirements and then for FGP, SCP or stipended program and the American 
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rescue SDP opportunity there are minimum number of hours that they could 

serve.

16:18:22 There's a maximum number of hours they could serve also to be able to 

receive the stipend. I will plug in a thing there is a minimum number of training 

hours you need to do so within the notice, we listed out all regulations that apply 

to each opportunity. I recommend as you work through the notice and you see 

the CFR number for the opportunity that you review those and you could see all 

parameters that apply and I believe the notice also has it written in it.

16:18:37 >> Thank you. We have responded to all questions in the Q&A box at 

this stage. We have a couple in the chat.

16:18:48 Give me a moment while I scroll. Is the stipend amount part of the total 

funding request?

16:19:07 >> How much you plan to spend on stipend and I will interpret that 

question as yes, stipend amount cost per hour that you will provide would be 

included into the total amount that you request and you incorporate into your 

budget.

16:19:15 >> How much is the requirement -- is the required stipend?

16:19:20 >> Per hour is three dollars.

16:19:39 >> Fantastic. Those are all the questions that I see. If I missed your 

question, I apologize. Please add it back into the Q&A panel so that it pops up.

16:19:58 >> We have a couple more [indiscernible], the tool you could use to 

plan out your work plans for entering them into eGrants, which would you use? 

This is a poll.

16:20:22 I will share that. Correct answer is when you work out your work plans, 

performance measures, you use the worksheet that you find in the grant 

application instruction.

16:20:41 The last question is if you have any technical issues, you should? 

Please choose one.

16:21:25 The cost per VSY volunteer service years for stipended program that 

applies to American Rescue Plan, SDP, as well as FGP SCP so for the American 
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Rescue Plan, the cost per VSY is 7500. For the FGP SCP program it's 6500 per 

amount you request.

16:21:33 You guys are correct. Contact the National Service hotline.

16:22:01 If you have issues and you have contacted them and they give you a 

ticket number and prevent you from submitting application by February 3 at 5 PM 

Eastern standard Time, use the ticket and submit a request for extension. It helps 

your request document and this happened and I followed the process and here's 

my ticket number and that could provide you an extension opportunity.

16:22:18 We have no more questions. We can give you back seven minutes of 

your day. This will be posted at least by next Tuesday on the funding opportunity 

page.

16:22:37 Do we have to match any funds with this request? I recommend you 

review the notice of opportunity and it does without match requirement 

depending on what application you are completing.

16:22:44 Do a quick search of match in the notice and it will take you to the 

section that has that.

16:22:55 Thank you everyone for coming today and we look forward to seeing 

your application.

16:23:09 If you're applying for FGP SCP -- on the 16th and looking forward to it.

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