Submitted: Jamie McFaul, Grants Officer
Major projects completed:
• Update to the monitoring tool for the member
• Participation in the member conference planning every Wednesday
• Recertifying the required annual national service criminal history check in the AmeriCorps Litmos system
• Corrective action letter sent to Maine Conservation Corps as a result from the desk top review of member files, which has been resolved
• Meeting with the new program director for Game Loft to discuss the grantee progress reporting requirements
• Approval of all compliant position descriptions in OnCorps
• Co-meeting with AmeriCorps members (conference planning) and Tribal Representative Aaron Dana to be a speaker for the conference
• Coordinating a meeting with Angela Okafor from the Permanent Commission on The Status of Racial, Indigenous, And Tribal Populations, State of Maine to speak at the AmeriCorps member conference
• Scheduling out AmeriCorps site visits for the month of March
Issues to be aware of:
• Currently in transition with three Programs who are having staff changes; Trekkers, Game Loft and UMaine COA all have new Program Directors
Major focus of effort for the next month:
• Site Visits for all AmeriCorps programs with a focus on member training and interviews
• Risk assessments need to be completed for all AC programs
• Developing a presentation for the AmeriCorps Member Conference
• Continued efforts to support the AC Member Conference Planning
• Reading the staff assigned book about volunteer engagement, Transforming Disruption to Impact, to discuss in later staff meeting
• Inclusion Maine three day Conference in Portland that is looking to diversify the workforce in Maine