April PD Meeting Updates & Announcements AmeriCorps Cape Cod April 25, 2018

Agenda Program Presentation Staffing Update Grants Process Verifications Updates Compliance IPERIA TTA Update Conferences Site Visits Calendar Updates Small Group Discussion: Finishing the Year Strong

Staffing Update Welcome MSA has filled the open Staff Accountant Position Aysa Crane started Wednesday April 11. She is from Russia, where she studied and taught accounting at the university level. She emigrated to the US in 2012 and worked in accounting and financial management at a variety of nonprofit and for-profit businesses. Our finance team is complete now with Kimberly and Aysa. Together they look forward managing and improving our financial systems Aysa’s email is acrane@mass-service.org if you want to give her a warm welcome

2018-19 Grants Process Timeline- Competitive Results of the competition announced: Monday, May 15, 2018 Resolution Phase for all successful applicants (New/Recompete and Continuation): Started April 20 For programs re-competing next year Late July/early August: 2019-2020 grants process will begin with the MSA RFP release for concept papers

2018-19 Grants Process Timeline- Formula Formula timeline Not anticipating an additional Formula process this year Notifications in May or June Formula continuations due to PO in spring, check with your PO for draft deadline (April/May)

Verification Updates Additional information about how this process began Current Reporting options Fax 1 (202) 403-3457 Contact the Corporation for National and Community Service, National Service Hotline via phone at 1 (800) 942-2677 or via webform at https://questions.nationalservice.gov/app/ask to request a secure file transfer link Must have all of your documentation compiled and ready to submit including proof of your due diligence Will only receive one link that will be active for 7 days Review and submit verification spreadsheet by May 4th Any updates/current findings? Remind programs what we have outlined for due diligence Discuss what manually verified means Remind them that they can check status in the MyAmeriCorps portal

Compliance: IPERIA Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act (IPERIA) Testing for FY2018 5/10/18 – IPERIA Notices 5/29/18 – 2nd Request Only Formula grant selected so far for this year Differentiate IPERIA from background check screening and recent member verification process. Explain logistics (request from OCRO to us, we collect and review info from programs and submit it back to CNCS) CNCS’s Office of the Chief Risk Officer (OCRO) Overall report to come out for 16-17 year with summarized findings. Quick turnover after requests (staff must be available)

Compliance: NSCHC Disallowances are almost complete How’d we do? More info at Kickoff CNCS is working on a State Check Channeler Don’t forget to complete mandatory online training Next year: Tracking log changes

TTA Update CIF Service Enterprise Initiative Member Trainings MPF hosting a training on May 8th titled: What We Bring: White Youth Workers in Communities of Color ALA hosting a training on May 18th titled: Facing Our Stress: Mindfulness and Meditation for AmeriCorps Members Funding still available; please submit proposals JVS Resources for members Evaluation Cohorts UNDERWAY Cohort 1 (April 17 – July 13) Next cohort is October 11 – December 15 Contact PO if interested; provide rationale for participating Service Enterprise Initiative Participating in 2019-2020 cohort start Jan. 2019

2018 Upcoming Conferences/Trainings National Service Training Conferences Atlantic/Southern: April 30 – May 2 in Greenville, SC Pacific/Southwest: May 14-16 in Seattle, WA Registration open for all More information here: http://www.nationalservicetraining.org New England Conference: May 22-23 in Concord, NH Programs should have funds in their budget to attend MSA Spring Training Series ($15) April 24th, Springfield – “…Find and Retain Volunteers” May 9th, Boston – “When Conflicts Arise…” May 31st, Wareham – “Utilizing Skill-Based Volunteers…”

MSA Updates FY19 Budget Update - Federal The strong bi-partisan support for AmeriCorps came through and not only funded AmeriCorps but increased the amount of funding AmeriCorps State & National and state service commissions received significant increases. AmeriCorps was increased by $26 million State Commission Grant received an historic $17.538 million -- a $1 million increase from last year. Commission Investment Fund increased by $1 million to $8.5 million Volunteer Generation Fund received an historic $5.4 million an impressive increase of $1.6 million Thanks to the hard work of national service champions and groups which included ASC, the state service network, our new States for Service (S4S) Coalition.

MSA Updates FY19 Budget Update - State The House Ways & Means Committee released its FY19 budget proposal and it included MSA’s level-funded request of $1.4 million. The funds are used to match our Federal Admin grant, support the Commonwealth Corps program and support numerous volunteer initiatives across the state including last week’s National Volunteer Week service projects. The Senate! Senate Ways & Means will release its version of the FY19 budget in mid-May. If you have a close relationship with your State Rep, thank them for supporting MSA in the House budget proposal.

MSA Updates Thank you for getting your mid-year Progress Reports and PER/FSR’s submitted 1200 Hour Member Slots Full Enrollment changing from 100% to 85% 1200 Hour Slots – Conversion Letter Approved by Grants Officer and Program Officer

FY18 Site Visit Season Site visits are currently under way. Program site visits will finish by the end of May and Fiscal site visits by mid-June Program Officers e-mail written report to program within 30 days Program has 30 days to respond to compliance issues Best Practice and Continuous Improvement sections are for future reference When all compliance issues are resolved, the site visit process is complete

Calendar Update (continued) April 30 – May 2: Atlantic/Southern National Training Conference May 9-11 - National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service will be in Boston May 14 - 16: Pacific/Southwest National Training Conference May 15: Competitive decisions May 22 – 23: New England Conference

Calendar Update July 15 – FSR and Reimbursement Request Due for the period of April 1 through June 30 New or Recently New PD Training – July 18 Kickoff for all PD’s – July 31-August 1; location TBD Symposium – September 12-14 – MSA Staff will be away during these days

Updates Wrap-up QUESTIONS? We’ll see you next on July 31st and August 1st For Kickoff at a TBD Location

Small Group Discussion: Outreach and Recruitment Table 1 DIAL/SELF MPF MMP Playworks Table 2 South Coastal MIRA TerraCorps PAARI Table 3 City Year Jumpstart Tenacity FoodCorps Table 4 BPE Citizen Schools UWMBMV Springfield College SCI Table 5 Cape Cod SCA Phoenix UTEC City on a Hill

Small Group Discussion: Finishing the Year Strong Discussion questions Utilize the sheets at each table to share and learn from each other.