AmeriCorps Application (2024-25)

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General Instructions

The Corps Network is seeking eligible Corps to participate in the 2024-25 program year for the following AmeriCorps programs:

Education Award Program (EAP)
Opportunity Youth Service Initiative (OYSI)

This application covers the period October 1, 2024 - September 30, 2025.

All responses should refer to activities completed during this grant period. Please provide your best estimate for the activities you intend to complete during that program year.

You may apply to all programs using one application. If applying to multiple TCN programs, select the applicable programs in the "Programs" field below.

You may save and return to complete this form at any time.

This application is due by midnight, December 7th.

Basic Information

Corps/Organization Name:

Submitted By:

Email:

Program(s):

Enter the number of members you plan to enroll in each term type. If you are applying to multiple TCN programs, complete the chart for each program separately. MSYs will automatically calculate for you.

Education Awards Program (EAP)

Full-Time - 1700 hrs Members:

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Three Quarter Time - 1200 hrs Members:

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Half Time - 900 hrs Members:

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Reduced Half Time - 675 hrs Members:

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Quarter Time - 450 hrs Members:

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Slots by State - EAP

The Corps Network submits a Consultation Form to every state commission where AmeriCorps members will be serving. Provide a breakdown of all members by the state of service.

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Staff by State - EAP

The Corps Network submits a Consultation Form to every state commission where AmeriCorps programs operate. Provide a breakdown of all staff (for this program) by operating site.

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Opportunity Youth Service Initiative (OYSI)

Full-Time - 1700 hrs Members:

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Slots by State - OYSI

The Corps Network submits a Consultation Form to every state commission where AmeriCorps members will be serving. Provide a breakdown of all members by the state of service.

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Staff by State - OYSI

The Corps Network submits a Consultation Form to every state commission where AmeriCorps programs operate. Provide a breakdown of all staff (for this program) by operating site.

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AmeriCorps is interested in knowing the number of volunteers and potential volunteers generated within the communities where AmeriCorps-funded programs operate. Please answer the following to the best of your ability.

Education Awards Program (EAP)

Responses provided in this section should be applicable to participants in the Education Awards Program (EAP) only.

Which best represents your program's geographic focus?

Is your program faith-based?

Our EAP members are comprised of (check all that apply):

Communities of ColorEconomically Disadvantaged Young Adults/Opportunity YouthLow-Income IndividualsNative AmericansNew AmericansOlder AmericansPeople with DisabilitiesRural ResidentsVeterans, Active Military, or their Families

What percentage of AmeriCorps members will be economically disadvantaged?

What percentage of AmeriCorps members will be recruited from the communities in which they will serve?

*Opportunity Youth is defined as economically disadvantaged individuals, age 16-24 who were out of school and out of work (or underemployed) when enrolling in AmeriCorps.

What percentage of members will be enrolled as Opportunity Youth* in your AmeriCorps program?

What percentage of Opportunity Youth* AmeriCorps members will secure employment during their term of service or within thirty (30) days of completing the program?

What percentage of Opportunity Youth* AmeriCorps members will enroll in a post-secondary program during the program or within thirty (30) days of completing the program?

How many volunteers will be generated by your AmeriCorps members?

Opportunity Youth Service Initiative (OYSI)

Responses provided in this section should be applicable to participants in the Opportunity Youth Service Initiative (OYSI) only.

Which best represents your program's geographic focus?

Is your program faith-based?

Our OYSI members are comprised of (check all that apply):

What percentage of AmeriCorps members will be economically disadvantaged?

What percentage of AmeriCorps members will be recruited from the communities in which they will serve?

*Opportunity Youth is defined as economically disadvantaged individuals, age 16-24 who were out of school and out of work (or underemployed) when enrolling in AmeriCorps.

What percentage of members will be enrolled as Opportunity Youth* in your AmeriCorps program?

What percentage of Opportunity Youth* AmeriCorps members will secure employment during their term of service or within thirty (30) days of completing the program?

What percentage of Opportunity Youth* AmeriCorps members will enroll in a post-secondary program during the program or within thirty (30) days of completing the program?

How many volunteers will be generated by your AmeriCorps members?

Performance Measures - EN1

All performance measures are cumulative and should cover the full 12-month project period. Do not include any data that were reported in the 2021-22 year-end (October) report.

The following questions address specific environmental stewardship performance measures.
Responses should represent work completed during the current program year.

If your program does not collect data for a given measure or if you have no data to report, enter zero "0" in the response field.

Key Terms

Housing Unit refers to a single-family home (including a mobile home if permanently placed), an apartment, or a room in a group home for people with disabilities.

Low-income is defined as 200% of poverty level or the updated level as found at http://www.waptac.org.

Weatherization means modifying a building to reduce energy consumption and costs and optimize energy efficiency. Whole-house weatherization includes the installation of modern energy-saving heating and cooling equipment and looks at how the house performs as a system.

Retrofit refers to an energy conservation measure applied to an existing building or the action of improving the thermal performance or maintenance of a building.

Structures are shelters, such as homeless or emergency shelters operated by a nonprofit or public organization, or government-owned buildings. Each structure would count as 1.

Improve energy efficiency refers to physical improvements to housing or building structures that improve energy-efficiency compared to standard new units built to local building code or the unit's existing energy efficiency, respectively.

EAP

TARGET: # of housing units of low-income households and public structures weatherized or retrofitted to improve energy efficiency

TARGET: # of weatherized or retrofitted low-income households reporting reduced energy consumption or energy costs

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OYSI

TARGET: # of housing units of low-income households and public structures weatherized or retrofitted to improve energy efficiency

TARGET: # of weatherized or retrofitted low-income households reporting reduced energy consumption or energy costs

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Performance Measures - EN2

All performance measures are cumulative and should cover the full 12-month project period. Do not include any data that were reported in the 2021-22 year-end (October) report.

The following questions address specific environmental stewardship performance measures.
Responses should represent work completed during the current program year.

If your program does not collect data for a given measure or if you have no data to report, enter zero "0" in the response field.

Key Terms

A green job is defined as a job that contributes substantially to preserving or restoring environmental quality. Specifically, but not exclusively, this includes jobs that help protect ecosystems and biodiversity; reduce energy, materials, and water consumption through high efficiency strategies, de-carbonize the economy, and minimize or altogether avoid generation of all forms of waste and pollution.

EAP

TARGET: # of AmeriCorps members trained and/or certified for green jobs (including the conducting of energy audits)

TARGET: # of trained AmeriCorps members placed in green jobs

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TARGET: # of AmeriCorps members trained and/or certified for green jobs (including the conducting of energy audits)

TARGET: #of trained AmeriCorps members placed in green jobs

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Performance Measures - EN3

All performance measures are cumulative and should cover the full 12-month project period.

The following questions address specific environmental stewardship performance measures.
Responses should represent work completed during the proposed program year.

If your program does not collect data for a given measure or if you have no data to report, enter zero "0" in the response field.

Key Terms

Environmental Stewardship and/or environmentally conscious practices are organized efforts to teach about how natural environments function and, particularly, how human beings can manage their behavior and choices in order to live sustainably within those environments.

Education or training represents substantive engagement of individuals with a specific education goal in mind. Cannot consist solely of mass dissemination of information such as email blasts, social media posts, or distributing pamphlets.

EAP

TARGET: # of individuals receiving education or training in environmental stewardship and/or environmentally-conscious practices

TARGET: # of individuals with increased knowledge of environmental stewardship and/or environmentally-conscious practices

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National parks, State parks, city parks, and county parks are park/recreation areas that are designated by national, state, city, or county governments (not trails or rivers).

Other public lands are other publicly owned lands, land owned by nonprofits for public use or public good (such as land conservancies), and public easements.

Treated means that service members and/or program volunteers removed invasive species, planted native plants, built riparian buffers, cleared natural debris (such as fallen trees/limbs, hazardous fuel), and unnatural debris (disaster debris and improperly disposed waste). Treatment must go beyond basic trash removal.

NOTE: The value for measures improved should never be greater than the number that were treated.

EAP

TARGET: # of acres of national parks, state parks, city parks, county parks, or other public and tribal lands treated by AmeriCorps members

TARGET: # of acres of national parks, state parks, city parks, county parks, or other public and tribal lands improved by AmeriCorps members

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OYSI

TARGET: # of acres of national parks, state parks, city parks, county parks, or other public and tribal lands treated by AmeriCorps members

TARGET: # of acres of national parks, state parks, city parks, county parks, or other public and tribal lands improved by AmeriCorps members

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Performance Measures - EN5

Key Terms

Treated means that service members and/or program volunteers removed invasive species, planted native plants, built riparian buffers, cleared natural debris (such as fallen trees/limbs, hazardous fuel), and unnatural debris (disaster debris and improperly disposed waste). Treatment must go beyond basic trash removal.

Constructed means making new trails available by implementing safety measures, making handicapped accessible, or environmental protection measures such as boardwalks, grading, trail-blazing, converting a railroad bed to a trail, etc. that make trails newly available.

NOTE: The value for measures improved should never be greater than the number that were treated.

EAP

TARGET: # of many miles of trails treated by AmeriCorps members

TARGET: # of miles of trails improved or put into use by AmeriCorps members

TARGET: # of many miles of waterways treated by AmeriCorps members

TARGET: # of miles of waterways improved or put into use by AmeriCorps members

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OYSI

TARGET: # of many miles of trails treated by AmeriCorps members

TARGET: # of miles of trails improved or put into use by AmeriCorps members

TARGET: # of many miles of waterways treated by AmeriCorps members

TARGET: # of miles of waterways improved or put into use by AmeriCorps members

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Member Experience - Credentials & Certifications

A key component of many Corps programs is that AmeriCorps members often leave the program with marketable credentials in addition to the academic and hands-on technical skills training they receive while enrolled.

Please indicate the number of members that will be trained and received a certificate or credential while enrolled in your Corps. If your program offers a skill/certification that is not listed, you may add it by selecting "Other (please specify)" in the skill/certification column and entering a brief description in the field provided. Click "add another certification" to list additional certifications.

Note: If a member is trained, but not certified or credentialed, only enter them in the "trained" column. If a member is certified or credentialed, only count them in the certified/credentialed column. The sum of both columns should reflect an unduplicated count of members for each credential.

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Skill/Certification

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Narratives

Describe any significant changes in staffing, key personnel, leadership, or organizational structure in the past 12 months.

Describe the proposed member service activities and anticipated community impact expected as a result of your AmeriCorps members' service.

What are your Corps' goals to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion? How are they reflected and implemented in your AmeriCorps program(s)?

Describe your program's strategy for ensuring placement of OYSI members in employment or post-secondary education upon exiting the AmeriCorps program. Please discuss planned partnerships and/or career pathways to be implemented by your program.

Describe your program's strategy for ensuring tracking of your OYSI members' activities for the 12 months following their exit from the program. This includes gathering information on current or desired activities (employment, education, etc.), accomplishments, and connecting alumni to necessary supportive services.

Discuss your program's strategy for demonstrating improvement in a) the recruitment and retention of opportunity youth, b) member outcomes, and c) performance measures from the previous year for your OYSI program.

Data Collection and Reporting

Data Collection

I understand that, if accepted, our program will be required to collect and report data on member demographics, outcomes, and accomplishments to The Corps Network at least quarterly via an online database.

Financial Compliance

What period did the organization's most recent financial audit or review cover? (Ex. January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021)

Has the organization ever been fined for any disallowances through any grant?

Please explain (maximum 500 words).

Enter the amount, source, type, and status of all funds that your program will use to run your EAP or OYSI program. Do not enter your total operating budget unless your total operating budget supports the individual program.

Leveraged/Match Funds (EAP)

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Labor Union Concurrence

Will your program serve as the placement site for AmeriCorps members (or have members at a host site) and have employees engaged in the same or substantially similar work as that proposed to be carried out by AmeriCorps members?

Are those employees represented by a local labor organization?

Labor Union Concurrence

You must submit to The Corps Network, written concurrence of the local labor organization representing those employees. Written concurrence can be in the form of a letter or email from the local union leadership.

You must also submit to The Corps Network:

A written description of how the program will ensure that AmeriCorps members will not be placed in positions that were recently occupied by paid staff, and
Attestation that no AmeriCorps member will be placed into a position:

For which a recently resigned or discharged employee has recall rights as a result of a collective bargaining agreement, or
From which a recently resigned or discharged employee was removed as a result of reduction in force, or
From which a recently resigned or discharged employee is on leave or strike.

Please upload your concurrence and any supporting documents here.

Assurances

I understand that AmeriCorps members must wear the AmeriCorps logo (consistent with current branding guidelines) every day.

I understand that AmeriCorps members must be trained to create and deliver elevator pitches.

I understand that the AmeriCorps logo must be prominently displayed on the front page of our organization's website.

I understand that The Corps Network logo (or TCN's Proud Member logo or Accredited Corps logo) must be prominently displayed on the front page of our organization's website and program materials.

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Once you click "Review and Submit", you will be able to review your responses before completing your submission.

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