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AmeriCorps State and National
AmeriCorps VISTA
Other Resources
AmeriCorps Provisions
AmeriCorps VISTA Program Guidance and Federal Register Guidelines
Grant Management Resources
Oversight, Assessment, and MonitoringThe Corporation is responsible for ensuring all federal resources are appropriately managed, which includes conducting monitoring visits to award recipients (e.g., grantees, cooperative agreement recipients, sponsors). In addition, the State Administrative Standards Review (ASR) process is the most comprehensive monitoring tool that the Corporation for National and Community Service uses to assess the administrative capacity of state commissions and is used for AmeriCorps State monitoring activities, including desk reviews and on-site monitoring visits. The ASR tool is also used for other AmeriCorps State monitoring activities, including desk reviews and on-site mornitoring visits. Recruit Members for Your ProjectTo assist you in reaching a national pool of potential members, you can list your program opportunities in the online My AmeriCorps Recruitment System. Identity and Citizenship Verification ProcessThe Corporation for National and Community Service is pleased to announce that the process for verifying the identity and citizenship status of individuals applying to serve in AmeriCorps has been automated. By law, to serve in an approved AmeriCorps position, an individual must be a citizen, national, or lawful permanent alien of the United States (42 U.S.C. 12602(a)(3)). To comply with this requirement prior to February 27th, 2012, AmeriCorps grantees and sponsors manually reviewed and maintained identity and citizenship documentation to ensure an applicant was eligible to service in a national service position. With the signing of this agreement, upon an individual accepting a position (or in regards to many AmeriCorps State & National positions, when the organization enrolls the individual), the individual’s information will be automatically reviewed by the Social Security Administration within 3 business days. If the individual’s information is verified, the AmeriCorps grantee or sponsor will not need to do anything. The individual’s status will appear as “Verified” in their My AmeriCorps account and in eGrants for your records. If the individual’s information cannot be automatically verified by the Social Security Administration, AmeriCorps State & National grantees will receive an email regarding next steps which will include a request for documentation. AmeriCorps VISTA sponsors will be contacted by the CNCS state office regarding next steps. For both grantees and sponsors in this scenario, the grantee or sponsor will need to review and verify the individual’s documentation and provide copies to CNCS. Within eGrants, the status of an individual’s identity and citizenship review can also now be seen at any time. We strongly encourage you to review the FAQs below for where this information can be found in eGrants and other questions that will be of assistance to you in regard to the automated identity and citizenship verification process.
If you have any questions, please contact the National Service Hotline at 1-800-942-2677 or via webform at www.nationalservice.gov/questions. Closeout Documents and InstructionsCNCS grants usually are awarded for a 3 year Project Period, consisting of three yearly budget periods. CNCS direct grantees are responsible for meeting the submission deadlines for closeout. Closeout documents are due to your corporation Grants Officer no later than 90 days after the expiration of the Project Period.
National Service Criminal History ChecksThe Corporation for National and Community Service has issued regulations requiring grantees to conduct and document National Service Criminal History Checks on AmeriCorps State and National program participants, as well as on participants in other Corporation programs. |
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