AmeriCorps Prohibited Activities. Prohibited Activities1 While charging time to the AmeriCorps program, accumulating service or training hours, or otherwise performing activities supported by the AmeriCorps program or CNCS, staff and members may not engage in the following activities (see 45 CFR § 2520.65):
AmeriCorps Prohibited Activities. There are certain activities that AmeriCorps Members may not perform in the course of their service in the New Jersey AmeriCorps Xxxxxx Leader Program. Furthermore, Members may not engage in any conduct that would associate the National Service Program, the Corporation for National and Community Service, the New Jersey State Commission on National and Community Service,The College of New Jersey, or the Xxxxxxx and Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx Foundation with the prohibited activities. Service Sites must become familiar with the specific prohibitions in the Corporation’s formal regulations (45 C.F.R. B2520.30). The list of prohibited activities includes: • Participating in efforts to influence legislation, including lobbying for your program; • Organizing a letter-writing campaign to Congress; • Engaging in partisan political activities, or other activities designed to influence the outcome of an election to any public office; • Participating in, or endorsing, events or activities that are likely to include advocacy for or against political parties, political platforms, political candidates, proposed legislation, or elected officials; • Printing politically charged articles in a Corporation-funded newsletter or discussion list; • Taking part in political demonstrations or rallies; • Engaging in any efforts to influence legislation, including state or local ballot initiatives; • Voter registration drives; • Organizing or participating in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes; • Assisting or deterring union organizing; • Impairing existing contracts or collective bargaining agreements; • Religious activities, including engaging in religious instruction; conducting worship services; providing instruction as part of a Program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship; constructing, operating, or maintaining facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship; serving at faith-based camps; or engaging in any form of religious proselytization; • Activities that pose a significant safety risk to participants; • Assignments that displace employees; • Placement of members into internships with for-profit businesses as part of the education and training component of the program; • Providing assistance to a business organized for profit; • Raising funds for an AmeriCorps stipend; • Raising funds for an organization’s operating expenses or endowment; • Writing grant applications for AmeriCorps funding or for any other funding provided...
AmeriCorps Prohibited Activities. There are certain activities, including lobbying, political, or advocacy activities, that one may not perform as an AmeriCorps member. Generally, members may not engage in any conduct that would associate the national service program or the Corporation for National & Community Service with any prohibited activity. AmeriCorps members may not: • Engage in any effort to influence legislation, including state or local ballot initiatives or lobbying for your AmeriCorps program; for example, they may not organize a letter-writing campaign to Congress; • Engage in partisan political activities or other activities designed to influence the outcome of an election to any public office; • Organize or take part in political demonstrations or rallies; • Organize or participate in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes; • Assist, promote, or deter union organizing; • Impair existing contracts for services or collective bargaining agreements; • Participate in, or endorse, events or activities that are likely to include advocacy for or against political parties, political platforms, political candidates, proposed legislation, or elected officials; for example, you may not print politically charged articles in a Corporation-funded newsletter; • Perform clerical work, research, or fundraising, except if incidental to your direct service work; • Engage in religious instruction; conduct worship services; provide instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship; construct or operate facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship; maintain facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instructions or worship; or engage in any form of religious proselytization; or • Provide a direct benefit to a for-profit entity, a labor union, a partisan political organization, or, in general, an organization engaged in the religious activities described in the preceding bullet. There are also several types of activities that programs may not assign to a New Jersey AmeriCorps Xxxxxx Leader Program member, such as: • Activities that pose a significant risk to the member or other participants; • Assignments that displace employees; • Internships with for-profit businesses as a part of the education and training component of the program; and, • Any of the prohibited activities mentioned above. Institutions are required to verify that AmeriCorps members have not counted hours performed in the above listed prohibited activities towards t...
AmeriCorps Prohibited Activities. City Year and the District agree that neither party shall direct AmeriCorps members or staff to engage in any actions that violate AmeriCorps prohibited activities. See Appendix A for more information regarding AmeriCorps prohibited activities. Additionally, the parties agree that AmeriCorps members shall conduct their duties in a manner to ensure public confidence and observe a standard of conduct that will not reflect discredit on the integrity of the District or City Year. The District, in its sole discretion, may require any AmeriCorps member whose conduct does not align with the expected standards of professionalism, to be removed and prohibited from providing services at any District site.
AmeriCorps Prohibited Activities. City Year and the District agree that neither party shall direct AmeriCorps members or staff to engage in any actions that violate AmeriCorps prohibited activities. See Appendix A for more information regarding AmeriCorps prohibited activities.
