Grant Officer: February-March 2021

Jamie McFaul, Grants Officer

Major projects completed:

  • Financial monitoring letters sent out to AmeriCorps programs and all requested information was delivered by March 15, except for Alfond Youth Center
  • Participated in the Commission Civic Engagement (monthly meeting that will end in April)
  • Attended ASC’s Fiscal Officer training
  • Created a match waiver request form in OnCorps for the current 2020-2021 fiscal year
  • Assisted with the AmeriCorps Member Conference
  • NSCHC certification acquired from the Federal Agency
  • Attended and participated in the DOE’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion training
  • Continued an ongoing review and process of Periodic Expense Reports (PER’s), Periodic Income Reports (PIR’s), Aggregated Financial Reports (AFR’s) and Grantee Progress Reports (GPR’s) along with corresponding reimbursement requests
  • Contract amendments made on behalf of Game Loft in order to transfer a TQT member slot and funding increase
  • Slot change for MEAP and Learning Works
  • Multiple training sessions with Alfond Youth Center staff for financial reporting, and grantee progress reports
  • Review of Q4 GPR’s for rural programs and Maine Conservation Corps

Issues to be aware of:

  • Alfond Youth center has not sent in the financial documents as requested despite multiple attempts to communicate to them, there has been no response
  • CNCS new final rule about National Service Criminal History Checks for grantees and AmeriCorps members takes effect May 1.  

Major focus of effort for the next month:

  • Tech review with the GTF for continuations and new subgrantees
  • Preparing necessary data for the Federal Financial Report due at the end of April
  • Continuation of the financial monitoring of all operational subgrantees
  • Continued an ongoing review and process of Periodic Expense Reports (PER’s), Periodic Income Reports (PIR’s), Aggregated Financial Reports (AFR’s) and Grantee Progress Reports (GPR’s) along with corresponding reimbursement requests