No More Americorps

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't Americorps fail it's eighth audit?

https://www.oversight.gov/reports/audit/audit-americorps-fiscal-year-2024-consolidated-financial-statements

Is that a reason to pull kids from the field and simply cancel the program leaving the beneficiaries of the volunteerism, particularly that vets, in the lurch?

If they are volunteers, why do we need a program to pay them?

Volunteers receive a subsistence-level-stipend designed so that they live at the level of the communities in which they are serving.

Very few people would be able to volunteer full-time without a stipend of some sort -- only the wealthy.

To receive volunteers, generally organizations have to submit project proposals to AmeriCorps (or to the state government offices that manage some awards).

A Headstart program, for example, couldn't rely on occasional volunteers (for lots of reasons). They may rely on AmeriCorps volunteers who apply and commit to service of a set length of time. Generally it's fulltime for one year, but there are some options for part-time through the states.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn't Americorps fail it's eighth audit?

https://www.oversight.gov/reports/audit/audit-americorps-fiscal-year-2024-consolidated-financial-statements

From the audit


All eleven of the material weaknesses are recurring, three of them since FY 2017, five since FY 2018, one since FY 2021, and two since FY 2022. AmeriCorps included in its Annual Management Report a Statement of No Assurance, acknowledging that its system of internal controls does not currently provide the necessary level of assurance towards the effectiveness of internal control over operations, reporting, and compliance. This is the fifth consecutive year that AmeriCorps has issued a No Assurance statement.“

I do not understand why Biden/Harris never bothered to fix these obvious problems with AmeriCorps?

They never even brought up the issue. I had no idea it was this bad.