Lingo
An AmeriCorps Member
What do you call yourself?
General organization filing.
What is administrative work that is not in support of position description activities?
Answering your phone
What is allowable?
Time sheet approval process
What is site supervisors review and approve time sheets before the program director?
Organizing a hot meal program
What is a Food Distribution?
Host Site
Where is the place you go to 80% of your time?
Setting up a voter registration drive at a food distribution.
What is organizing or participating in voter registration drives?
Responding to emails in 1 business day
What is allowable?
Showing up to a training/event 45 minutes late because you were out of town last night and woke up late.
What is unauthorized tardiness?
Facilitating a cooking class for 5th graders
What is Youth Nutrition Education?
Service
What is the time you give to AmeriCorps?
Signing a client up for EBT
What is responsible for enrolling individuals in federal assistance programs?
Writing federal grants for a workshop your hosting.
What is prohibited?!...so unallowable
Getting angry with your site supervisor for giving you a task that you feel is not part of your position description, say nothing, and then quit because you just cannot handle it anymore.
What is not bringing host site or programmatic problems, issues or concerns to the Program Director immediately?
Signing up and sitting at a booth for your host site at a local festival that features non-profits and how to get involved.
What is Volunteer Recruitment efforts?
MCSC
What is the Michigan Community Service Commission?
Recruiting and leading volunteers to grow plants that will be used for the production of alcohol
What is recruiting or coordinating volunteers to perform tasks that members are not allowed to do.
Speaking ill of the AmeriCorps Program, co-members, host site staff, volunteers, etc..
What is unallowable?
Deciding you want to go to Volunteers of America for your service day because they serve food to residents and the AmeriCorps Program is about food access.
What is only engage in activities explicitly listed in the position description, with the exception of pre-approved activities from the Program Director?
Hosting a symposium on why fracking is bad for our water and therefore our farms/gardens
What is not an allowable service activity that you should not be doing?
CNCS
What is the Corporation for National and Community Service?
Setting up and tearing down vendor booths at a farmers market
What is providing a direct benefit to a for-profit entity, a labor union, a partisan political organization, a religious organization or a non-profit entity that fails to comply with the restrictions contained in section 501C(3) of U.S. Code Title 26?
Soliciting donations for your host site operating costs
What is unallowable?
Getting mad at the AmeriCorps Program's surveys and reporting methods so you choose to not distribute them or do your due diligence with data collection.
What is the program may elect to bypass the disciplinary process if a member makes a threat, displays threatening behaviors, has been charged with a violent felony, possession, sale or distributions of a controlled substance or if a member’s behavior puts the overall integrity and mission of the program at risk and release the member for cause?
Orientating gardeners to the community garden's policies and procedures
What is Gardening Education?