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AmeriCorps
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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)

Duplicate and Improper Enrollments Leads to Changes by National Direct Grantee

2017
2017-005
Investigation
AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General
AmeriCorps

CNCS management reported that it discovered anomalies with the National Service Participants (NSP) accounts in the National Service Trust (NST) database in which AmeriCorps members had been enrolled in Teach for America (TFA) Idaho and Chicago AmeriCorps programs between Grant Years (GY) 2013 - 2017...

Fraudulent Claims Result in Reimbursement and “High Risk” Oversight

2017
2016-010
Investigation
AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General
AmeriCorps

A hotline complainant reported that Senior Resources of Guilford (SRG), Greensboro, NC, officials fraudulently claimed that the Foster Grandparent Program (FGP) Project Director worked a percentage of her time on the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), for which the grantee sought reimbursement...

AmeriCorps Members Declined to Engage in Political Activities for Grantee

2017
2016-028
Investigation
AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General
AmeriCorps

CNCS-OIG completed its investigation into Hotline allegations that AmeriCorps members assigned to the Martha O'Bryan Center (MOBC), Nashville, TN, a subgrantee of the Volunteer Tennessee (Commission), Nashville, TN, may have engaged in prohibited activities.

Fraudulent Certification of Education Awards Leads to Debarment and Disallowed Costs

2017
2016-011
Investigation
AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General
AmeriCorps

This investigation was initiated based on a Hotline allegation that Ms. Meghan Olinger, former AmeriCorps Program Coordinator, Synergy, Education, and Empowerment of West Monroe (SEE), West Monroe, LA, falsely certified education awards for members who had not completed their service hours over the...

VISTA Site Discontinued after Members Served Outside Scope of Grant and Performed Staff Duties

2016
2016-020
Investigation
AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General
AmeriCorps

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.

Registered Sex Offender Terminated from AmeriCorps Service after Background Check

2016
2016-016
Investigation
AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General
AmeriCorps

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.

Grant Lost Because Grantee Failed to Perform Criminal History Checks, Altered Documents and Made False Certifications

2016
2015-026
Investigation
AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General
AmeriCorps

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...

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