Maryland Corps/Service Year Option Prospective Host Site Partners: Fact Sheet
Become a Host Site Partner
Applications will be reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis. Early Deadline 1: March 1, 2025.
What is the Maryland Corps/Service Year Option?
The Service Year Option program provides recent Maryland high school graduates, GED recipients, or those who have earned a high school completion certificate the opportunity to spend at least nine months with partnering organizations that support their growth and development. In turn, the opportunities provided strengthen Maryland’s workforce and expand the state’s employment. The Maryland Corps program shares those same goals and aims to recruit more seasoned individuals looking to pivot in their career or reenter the workforce.
What Type of Organization Can Partner with Maryland Corps and the Service Year Option
Maryland Corps/Service Year Option Host Site Partners are non-profits, government agencies, or businesses of all sizes and industries. We seek to develop a cohort of Host Site Partners that is diverse and representative of the State of Maryland. The common denominator among all successful Host Site Partners is a commitment to Partnership with our Department, and to supporting our Members.
What Does a Partnership Look Like?
- Hosting multiple Members from September 2025 to June 2026.
Providing meaningful full-time work, ongoing supervision for the participants including on-site professional development, job training, and mentoring.
- Providing healthcare and other fringe benefits as well as wrap around services that may include childcare, transportation, housing, behavioral/mental health support, crisis intervention, substance abuse prevention or treatment, legal aid assistance, financial literacy skills, job employment and college application support.
- Supporting required professional development activities for members, including online education, progress monitoring and regular in-person meetings.
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Committing to strengthen the talent pipeline into high-demand jobs, state and local government positions, and to fill present and future employment needs in Maryland.
What Does DSCI Need from Partners?
Partners share the commitment to develop and support the talent needed for Maryland’s future. After 9.5 months of service with your organization, the supervision and mentorship provided has allowed members to develop skills that will enable them to successfully make the transition from the program to employment or an institution of higher education, toward vocational certificates, associate degrees or bachelor’s degrees.
Maryland Corps/Service Year Option Program Participant Benefits:
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Earn at least $15 an hour
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Develop as Professionals
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Receive Support
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Earn Money for School for Future Plans
Important Dates
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Program Begins: Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
- Program Concludes: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
- If selected, participate in virtual matching process with Maryland Corps participants beginning Spring 2025.
Does Partnership Come with a Cost?
The Department of Service and Civic Innovation provides professional development training, the ability to earn a registered apprenticeship through a technological platform that measures progress, bi-weekly coaching sessions, in addition to the financial resources your organization will provide.
Note: Maryland state agencies, please reach out to dsci.gov@maryland.gov for state-agency specific instructions.
This table outlines the expected financial contributions and grant awards for organizations participating in a program based on their operating budget size. Figures in this table are on a PER MEMBER basis. The key columns in the table include:
- YOUR Operating Budget – Categories of an organization's total operating budget, divided into five ranges from "$0-$249,999" to "Over $10,000,000." For for-profits and nonprofits, this figure represents your organization’s revenue; your organization’s operating budget should reflect the entire amount for the organization’s EIN. For government agencies, this figure represents the official budget; your organization’s operating budget should reflect the entire amount for the unit of government.
- Expected Grant Award from DSCI* – The amount the organization is expected to receive from DSCI, with higher grants allocated to organizations with smaller operating budgets. The Expected Grant Award may include a grantee administrative award.
- YOUR Cash-Match Requirement for Member Salaries (reflected in Notice of Grant Award) – The financial contribution the organization must provide as part of the cost-sharing agreement. Larger organizations have higher cost-sharing requirements, while smaller ones have lower or no required contributions.
- Estimated Fringe (paid by your organization to your Member) – The most substantive fringe benefit is healthcare (If your member requires it), and other wraparound supports like transportation vouchers that each organization is responsible for covering, regardless of their operating budget size. We estimate that fringe could be as much as $8,000 per Member, however, over the first two classes of the program most organizations found it to be less than that.
- YOUR Total (Expected) Minimum Contribution – The total minimum financial contribution expected from the organization to support your Member, which includes the cash-match requirement and the estimated fringe amount.
PER MEMBER Cost-Sharing Table
YOUR Operating Budget | Expected Grant Award (from DSCI)* | Required Cash Match for Member salaries (from Grantee) | Estimated Fringe (Actual based on Grantee expenses for W-2 employees) | YOUR Total (Expected) Minimum Contribution |
Over $10,000,000 | $1,230.00 | $24,600 | $8,000 | $32,600 (24,600 + $8,000) |
$4,000,000-$9,999,999 | $7,380.00 | $18,450 | $8,000 | $26,450 ($18,450 + $8,000) |
$1,000,000-$3,999,999 | $13,530.00 | $12,300 | $8,000 | $20,300 ($12,300 + $8,000) |
Up to $1,000,000 | $21,630.00 | $4,200 | $8,000 | $12,200 ($4,200 + $8,000) |
For more information contact dsci.gov@maryland.gov
