AmeriCorps State and National

April Newsletter

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Dear AmeriCorps State and National Grantees and State Commissions, 

• AmeriCorps State and National Updates
• AmeriCorps Updates

AmeriCorps State and National Updates

AmeriCorps New Rule Term Eligibility

Thank you for your questions on the new rule term eligibility. AmeriCorps State and National has created an FAQ with our responses.

Training Calendar and Upcoming Events  

For upcoming AmeriCorps State and National training events, visit the 2025 Training and Technical Assistance Events Calendar on AmeriCorps.gov. For the latest Training and Technical Assistance for the fiscal year 2025 Native Nations Funding Opportunity, visit the “FY 2025 AmeriCorps State and National Native Nations Grants” Funding Page. ​  ​

The Office of Modernization will be offering calls for grantees and sponsors in the upcoming months. The registration link for these calls has now been added to the AmeriCorps State and National training calendar.   ​

For National Service Criminal History Check-specific training and events, visit the National Service Criminal History Check webpage. 

• What is an executive order? ​
• What part of my AmeriCorps grant must comply with executive orders?  ​
• Which executive orders must I comply with?​
• Are federally recognized tribes subject to executive orders? ​

Service Opportunity Listings

AmeriCorps is proactively taking action to ensure alignment with President Trump’s executive orders, related directives, and the Trump-Vance Administration priorities. As part of this review, AmeriCorps continues to remove service opportunity listings that appear out of compliance with executive orders. If your service opportunity listing is removed, please update to ensure compliance with executive orders and repost.

AmeriCorps Updates

National Service Criminal History Checks

Effective Tuesday, April 1, AmeriCorps is reducing the maximum amount of time for which costs are generally disallowed for National Service Criminal History Check noncompliance from six months to three months.

In addition, grantees may now request AmeriCorps staff review their National Service Criminal History Check policies and provide recommendations for improvement in regard to alignment with AmeriCorps regulations.

For additional information on these updates, including guidance for prime grantees enforcing disallowance with subgrantees, please review the Wednesday, March 26, email notice posted in the archive section of AmeriCorps’ National Service Criminal History Check webpage.

Compliance Tip: National Service Criminal History Check

Ensure that you have adjudicated all check components and maintain dated documentation before each person’s start date.

Reminders:

• Maintaining printouts of check results is generally not sufficient documentation of when you reviewed the results.
• Checklists, memos-to-file, or other file documents recording your check review outcomes and dates of review are good practices.

• The AmeriCorps approved vendor, Truescreen, allows you to document your adjudication in its system. It provides monitoring reports you can download to ensure you have completed your adjudication for each individual.
• Refer to the following resources for instructions:
• Using AmeriCorps Approved Vendor Truescreen Manual on the National Service Criminal History Check webpage.
• Truescreen AmeriCorps User Guides and “How to” videos on Litmos.