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2. Organizing or engaging in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes;
3. Assisting, promoting, or deterring union organizing;
4. Impairing existing contracts for services or collective bargaining agreements;
5. Engaging in partisan political activities, or other activities designed to influence
the outcome of an election to any public office;
6. Participating in, or endorsing, events or activities likely to include advocacy for or
against political parties, political platforms, political candidates, proposed
legislation, or elected officials;
7. Engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services, providing
instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or
worship, constructing or operating facilities devoted to religious instruction or
worship, maintaining facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious
imstruction or worship, or engaging in any form of religious proselytization;
8. Providing a direct benefit to—
a. A business organized for profit;
b. A labor union;
c. A partisan political organization;
d. A nonprofit organization that fails to comply with the restrictions
contained in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
except that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent
participants from engaging in advocacy activities undertaken at their own
initiative; and
e. An organization engaged in the religious activities described above, unless
Corporation assistance is not used to support those religious activities;
9. Conducting or using Corporation finds to conduct a voter registration drive;
10. Providing abortion services or referrals for receipt of such services;
11. Such other activities as the Corporation may prohibit.
12, Prohibited fundraising Activities including:
a. Raising funds for his or her living allowance or for an organization's general
(as opposed to project) operating expenses or endowment.
b. Writing grant applications for AmeriCorps funding or for any other
funding provided by CNCS
c. Writing grant applications to the Corporation or to any other Federal
Agency
Open lines of communication will be held between sponsor organization, Member, and
Goodwill AmeriCorps staff. This includes any need for disciplinary action.
Members serve no more than 20% of time in training and 10% of their time fundraising.
Members and supervisors follow all program policies, including Drug Free Workplace,
workplace safety, record compliance, reasonable accommodation, Equal Opportunity
Employment, Grievance Procedures, and Harassment. (Full list of policies outlined in
supervisor and member orientations).
Volunteer screening and background checks for mentors, school volunteers and any other
project volunteers/participants will be completed by the sponsor agency. These
volunteer/mentor background checks will follow host site agency policy and for mentors
(or volunteers with significant exposure to at-risk populations) will at a minimum include
a check of the online sex offender registry (http:/Awww.nsopw.gov) and two references.
Goodwill AmeriCorps will only do background checks on the AmeriCorps member and
the identified site supervisor. All other checks are the responsibility of the sponsor.
General Liability coverage for the Member is held at the host site.
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