Administrative Staff Reports: October
Submitted: November 14, 2025
Jamie McFaul, Grants Officer
Major projects completed:
- Checked in the Hospice Volunteers of Somerset County grant application from RFA# 202508124
- Updated the AmeriCorps Standard Formula Grants: Peer Reviewer Workspace Writeboards for the Peer Reviewers
- AmeriCorps Technical Assistance meeting
- Peer review orientation to the grantmaking and review process
- Peer review consensus call for the review of the Hospice Volunteers of Somerset County rural grant application
- Volunteer Maine staff meetings
- Final AmeriCorps Member Conference meetings to discuss logistics
- Grants Task Force Meeting to discuss the upcoming Rural RFA timeline process
- All day AmeriCorps Member Conference (Life After AmeriCorps)
- MOCA all staff meeting
- Submitted RQS document into Advantage for the creation of a BPO for OnCorps
- Check in meeting with the Executive Director about AmeriCorps programs
- Wrote up the Peer Review report to the Grants Task Force
- Sent out Board Authorization forms for Maine Conservation Corps
- Assisted White Pine Program Director with exiting members
- Processing AmeriCorps invoices
- Review of Maine Conservation Corps site agreement template
- Commission business meeting
- Update and correction to the OnCorps income report for invoicing
- Amendment to the Democracy Maine contract to the correct end date
- Check-in and initial review of all of the grantee progress reports submitted on time
- Meeting with Program Development and Training Officer to discuss the formation of the next Technical Assistance meeting
Items to be aware of:
- Allotment issues are causing delays in the processing of invoices
Major focus of effort for the next month:
- Contracts to be issued for Formula and Competitive grants (continuations only)
- RFA process for Competitive
- Member monitoring visits (as needed)
- Getting invoices sorted
- Grantee Progress Reports due to the Federal Agency at the end of the month (November)