trainings may be removed from service. Excused absences are provided for illness or
emergency, A training schedule is attached.
viii. To provide a space for the Member. This must include appropriate phone, computer (with
internet), copier, and desk use if necessary.
ix. Travel expense reimbursement for work related travel in accordance with the
organization’s current reimbursement policies for its employees at the existing
organizational rates.
x. IfHost Site anticipates the Member’s operation of any Host Site owned vehicle, to ensure
proof of liability insurance before such usage shall start. Host Site shall absolve Goodwill
VISTA Partnership of any and all claims arising from any accident in which the Member
was driving a Host Site Agency Vehicle.
xi. To maintain sufficient records to be able to sign and certify as to the correctness of
weekly Member hours (members could face disciplinary actions for delinquent
timesheets and reporting). To provide to Goodwill VISTA Partnership an end-of-term
evaluation of the Goodwill VISTA Partnership. To ensure receipt by Goodwill VISTA
Partnership of all weekly timesheets on a timely basis, by the Monday of each week for
the previous week’s work. To ensure receipt by Goodwill VISTA Partnership of end-of
term evaluation of the Member’s performance.
xii. Due to the nature of AmeriCorps VISTA partnerships and the service that members do,
supervisors, members, and AmeriCorps VISTA staff are exposed to confidential
information through communicating with members, program staff, and supervisors and
providing support and guidance within those networks. Information shared between the
host sites/members and AmeriCorps VISTA staff will be kept in confidence. Likewise,
Supervisors sign a MOU agreeing to keep sensitive information regarding a member in
confidence. They are also trained during Site Supervisor orientation regarding the
importance and consequences around keeping member information confidential.
Breaches of member confidentiality could result in loss of participation with this or future
Goodwill AmeriCorps programs.
xi. As part of the National Service Network, the Corporation requires that the host site
display AmeriCorps and CNCS logos at the site.
xiv. Provide a letter of Union Concurrence from the Union Representative if there is a Union
present within your organization.
a “i: ) 1.” Please indicate ifthere is a Union present with the organization: iY 68: No .
ee 2 Provide proof of nonprofit status to Goodwill AmeriCorps.
IV. Assurances:
a. Goodwill AmeriCorps assures that:
i. Member disciplinary actions are managed fairly by Goodwill AmeriCorps, and in close
communication with the sponsor organization. A sponsor organization cannot terminate a
member unilaterally. Goodwill staff will manage all disciplinary actions and termination.
lL. for violating the stated rules, Goodwill AmeriCorps will do the following (except
for infractions serious enough to warrant a different sequence, mcluding where a
Member has been charged with or convicted of a violent felony, possession, sale
or distribution of a controlled substance during the term of service.):
a. for the Member's first offense, an appropriate Goodwill AmeriCorps
official will issue a verbal warning;
b. for the Member's second offense, an appropriate Goodwill AmeriCorps
official will issue a written warning and reprimand the Member;
c. for the Member's third offense, the Member may be suspended for one day
or more without compensation;
d. for the fourth offense, AmeriCorps may release the Member for cause.
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