Only in AmeriCorps
Two of the letters in the word AmeriCorps are pronounced silently. Which are those two letters?
What are the "P" and the "S"?
He is the CEO of the federal AmeriCorps agency.
Who is Michael Smith?
This AmeriCorps federal office is charged with investigating fraud, waste and abuse of federal resources.
What is the Office of the Inspector General (OIG)?
Tutor kids in reading and math. Increase high school graduation rates.
What is Education?
It has objects but isn't 3-dimensional.
It has primes but isn't Amazon.
The second half of it was important to Luke Skywalker, the first half was more a Han Solo thing.
What is SalesForce?
This is main point of AND the only repeated statement within the AmeriCorps Pledge.
What is "GET THINGS DONE"?
This is the year that AmeriCorps was first signed into law.
(hint: Bill signed the bill)
What is 1993?
This federal AmeriCorps office is charged with performing Payment Integrity Information Act (PIIA) audits and other reviews of grant compliance.
What is the Office of Monitoring?
Improve medical access. Provide vision screenings.
What is Healthy Futures?
Members use it to record time.
Program Directors use it to review time.
Commission staff use it to monitor time.
What is AmericaLearns?
AmeriCorps claims to have approximately this many members and volunteers serving across the country each year.
OPTIONS: Two Thousand. Twenty Thousand. Two Hundred Thousand. Two Million. Two Billion.
What is Two Hundred Thousand (200,000)?
What is South Dakota?
Allowable activities are good.
Unallowable activities are bad.
THESE activities are the worst!
What are "Prohibited"?
Pathways to employment. Financial literacy.
What is Economic Opportunity?
It has boxes but no files.
Its boxes sometimes have faces, other times only names.
Its name sounds fast but too often feels clunky.
What is Zoom?
The third tenet of the AmeriCorps mission aims to FOSTER THIS:
What is Civic Engagement?
These are the two national service focus areas not currently represented by any program in AmeriCorps SC?
Errors in compliance for this one acronym-known process have resulted in nearly all past disallowances by AmeriCorps programs in SC.
What is the National Service Criminal History Check (NSCHC)?
Build a trail. Install artificial oyster reefs. Improve home energy efficiency.
What is Environmental Stewardship?
It has posts, but they're not made of wood.
It has threads, but they are not made of string.
You can't find it at the summit, but you can learn some of the latest news from it.
What is Basecamp?
AmeriCorps SC is part of the AmeriCorps State and National (ASN) branch of service. What are the names of the other 3 major service branches in AmeriCorps?
What are:
AmeriCorps VISTA
AmeriCorps Seniors
AmeriCorps NCCC
These are the names of the two main self-paced eCourse training systems available for free to your AmeriCorps program.
What are "Litmos" AND "On3Learn"?
The federal AmeriCorps agency estimates that 30 percent of all fraud investigations with AmeriCorps programs are centered on this issue.
What is Timesheet / Timekeeping fraud?
Help a coastal community prepare for the next hurricane season. Fix up a community center affected by flooding.
What is Disaster Services?
It is older than most AmeriCorps members.
It is as clunky as it is funky.
Most of us openly hate it.
A few of us secretly love it.
What is eGrants?