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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:
CNCS-OIG also has jurisdiction to investigate allegations of whistleblower retaliation involving:
Examples of matters to be reported to AmeriCorps OIG:
The following matters are NOT generally investigated by AmeriCorps OIG:
This investigation was initiated based on a hotline allegation concerning a VISTA member who may have engaged in political activities as part of his VISTA service.
Acting on a Hotline complaint, CNCS-OIG investigators determined that VISTA participants at Community in Schools of Hernando County (CIS-Hernando), Brooksville, FL, were assigned direct service tasks beyond the scope of the grant, and displaced employees by performing staff functions.
A compliance review discovered that grantee Mid-Delta Community Consortium (MDCC), West Helena, AR, assigned AmeriCorps members a variety of tasks that were beyond the scope of its grant from the Arkansas Service Commission.
CNCS management asked CNCS-OIG to investigate an AmeriCorps member serving at the Nevada Clean Energy Corps, Carson City, NV, who was suspended after a completed criminal history check revealed him to be a registered sex offender.
A joint investigation with PennSERVE: The Governor’s Office of Citizen Service, Harrisburg, PA, found that Communities in Schools of Pennsylvania (CISPA), Harrisburg, PA, failed to conduct critical criminal history checks (CHCs) and falsely certified to CNCS that it was in compliance with all CHC...
Alerted to allegations that Senior Corps grantee Great Lake Inter-Tribal Council, Lac du Flambeau, WI, misused program funds, CNCS-OIG investigators conducted a review in conjunction with an agency grant officer and a program officer. This joint review found that the grantee had abused the funds...
A grantee reported an AmeriCorps member serving as a tutor for suspected prohibited activity.
An AmeriCorps member reported allegations that a New Mexico AmeriCorps grantee required members to engage in prohibited activities by participating in a syringe exchange program.
CNCS management reported a Foster Grandparent Program (FGP) volunteer was arrested by Tooele Police Department, Tooele, UT, on allegations of sexual assault of a minor, while serving at a FGP school site.
A hotline complaint alleged that the director of an AmeriCorps program in Iowa misappropriated program funds to purchase groceries for her personal use.
