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AmeriCorps
Agencies
AmeriCorps
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What to Report to the OIG Hotline

If you know about waste, fraud, abuse, misconduct, mismanagement, or whistleblower reprisal relating to a AmeriCorps employee, program, operation, grant or contract, you may report it to the AmeriCorps OIG Hotline. AmeriCorps OIG has jurisdiction over disclosures involving AmeriCorps employees, programs, operations, grants, and contracts, including these AmeriCorps programs:

  • AmeriCorps State and National
  • AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America)
  • AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps)
  • FEMA Corps
  • Senior Corps (Foster Grandparent, Senior Companion, and RSVP)

CNCS-OIG also has jurisdiction to investigate allegations of whistleblower retaliation involving:

  • Employees of AmeriCorps and AmeriCorps grantees, subgrantees, contractors and subcontractors.

Examples of matters to be reported to AmeriCorps OIG:

  • Any suspected criminal activity or violations of law, such as:
    • Any other misconduct in connection with operations, programs, activities, contracts, subcontracts, grants or subgrants;
    • Mismanagement, abuse of authority or other misconduct by any AmeriCorps personnel.
What Not to Report to the OIG Hotline

The following matters are NOT generally investigated by AmeriCorps OIG:

  • 911 emergencies
  • EEO Complaints (For such matters, please refer to the AmeriCorps Equal Employment Opportunity Office)

Agreed-Upon Procedures for Corporation for National and Community Service Grants Awarded to the Serve Guam Commission

2019
19-08
Audit
AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General
AmeriCorps

The agreed-upon procedures review of AmeriCorps grant funds awarded to the Serve Guam Commission and two subgrantees, Sanctuary Incorporated and Guam Homeland Security, identified questioned Federal costs of $14,447, questioned match costs of $18,761, and compliance findings. Most of the questioned...

Agreed-Upon Procedures for Selected Corporation for National and Community Service Grants Awarded to Conservation Legacy

2019
19-07
Audit
AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General
AmeriCorps

We engaged a contract audit firm to conduct an Agreed-Upon Procedures review of selected AmeriCorps grant awards issued to Conservation Legacy, to include AmeriCorps Grants awarded by CNCS and the Corps Network, a nonprofit entity that received grant awards through CNCS. The auditors did not...

Agreed-Upon Procedures for the Corporation for National and Community Service Grants Awarded to Serve Indiana

2019
19-06
Audit
AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General
AmeriCorps

The agreed-upon procedures (AUP) review of AmeriCorps grant funds to Serve Indiana and two subgrantees, the Boys and Girls Club of Wayne County Indiana (BGCWCI) and the American Red Cross of Indiana (ARCI), identified questioned Federal costs totaling $127,090, questioned matching costs of $82,157...

Agreed-Upon Procedures of Corporation for National and Community Service Grants Awarded to the North Carolina Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service

2019
19-05
Audit
AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General
AmeriCorps

From August 2014 to June 2017, the North Carolina Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service (Commission) and two of its larger subgrantees claimed $16,132,771 in federal and match expenditures under the AmeriCorps State and National program. CNCS-OIG’s Agreed-Upon Procedures review (AUP) of...

Fiscal Year 2018 Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) Evaluation of the Corporation for National and Community Service

2019
19-03
Inspection / Evaluation
AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General
AmeriCorps

We have determined that the Corporation for National and Community Service’s (CNCS’s) information security program is NOT EFFECTIVE. CNCS has in place the basic information technology policies, procedures and system security documentation needed for effective cybersecurity. To progress beyond the...

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