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2018 SIAE

Volunteer Award Reviewer Information

The Serve Indiana Awards for Excellence Ceremony recognizes outstanding volunteers in communities around the State. There are eight categories ranging from individual awards, to corporate and group awards.

Reviewer Role:  It is requested that each reviewer score 3-4 nominations.  Each application should take about 20 minutes to review, and in total this should only take about 1-2 hours total depending on the number of applications you review.

Reviewer Timeline, Tools, and Training: All reviewers will be given two weeks to review their applications and will be provided a review tool to respond.  There will also a conference call for all reviewers following submissions to discuss any points of clarification.  The only required deadline is the submission date but we strongly encourage all reviewers to attend the follow up conference call to assist in their review. 

July 30th: Deadline to email availability

August 3rd: Nomination forms emailed to reviewers

August 17th: Reviews submitted to Serve Indiana

August 22nd: Reviewer conference call to discuss results

 If you are interested in being an awards reviewer email ckellogggillenwater@serveindiana.gov by Monday, July 30th. 

 For additional information on the Awards click here. 

If you are not interested or unable to review but know someone who would be a strong reviewer, please pass this along!

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AmeriCorps Grant Application Reviewer Information

Serve Indiana is conducting its annual application process and is seeking peer reviewers for their fall submissions.  If you are interested, please review the full information below and respond via email to info@serveindiana.gov by November 1, 2018.

 Reviewer Role: Serve Indiana’s policy is to have 3-5 peer reviewers per re-compete/new AmeriCorps State application.  Thus we ask each reviewer to review 1-3 full new or re-compete application to assist in the scoring of these applications.  These grants are 12-15 pages in length for narratives with additional documents such as budgets, performance measures and logic models. 

 A sample grant is available for review here.

·A sample grant budget is available for review here.

 Reviewer Timeline, Tools and Training: All reviewers will be given two weeks to review their three grants and will be provided a review tool to respond.  There will also be a reviewer orientation available and a conference call for all reviewers following submissions to discuss any points of clarification.  The only required deadline is the submission date but we strongly encourage all reviewers to attend the orientation and follow up conference call to assist in their review. 

November 1st: Deadline to email info@serveindiana.gov availability.

November 14th: Review Orientation Webinar & Applications/Review Tool Sent to reviewer

December 3rd: Reviews submitted to Serve Indiana

December 4th: Reviewer conference call to discuss results

Application Rules/Regulations: The grant applications are based on the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and Serve Indiana Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) and application instructions.  If you would like to review these items further, they are available on our website.

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