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Open Recommendations (4 total)

Grants: AmeriCorps Should Take Multiple Actions to Better Manage Fraud Risks

GAO-24-106564
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Agency Affected Recommendation Status
AmeriCorps The Chief Executive Officer of AmeriCorps should require grantees to take its fraud awareness training. (Recommendation 8)
Open – Partially Addressed
In August 2024, AmeriCorps provided the Terms and Conditions for its fiscal year 2024 AmeriCorps Seniors and AmeriCorps State and National grants, which require that at least one staff person at grant recipients must take AmeriCorps' fraud awareness training. AmeriCorps officials explained that this requirement will be included in the Terms and Conditions for fiscal year 2025 awards in its remaining grant programs. We will continue to monitor AmeriCorps' progress in this area.

Open Data: Additional Action Required for Full Public Access

GAO-22-104574
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Agency Affected Recommendation Status
AmeriCorps The Chief Executive Officer of AmeriCorps should, in coordination with the Chief Data Officer of AmeriCorps, develop and implement an agency-wide plan to host relevant challenges, competitions, events, or other open data related initiatives to create additional value from public data assets of the agency. (Recommendation 2)
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In September 2023, AmeriCorps officials told us they planned to publish an open data plan that would include information on the agency's plans for hosting relevant challenges, competitions, events, or other open data related initiatives to create additional value from public data assets of the agency. In February 2024, AmeriCorps officials said that they continue to work on developing their open data plan. We will continue to monitor AmeriCorps's progress to address this recommendation.

Open Data: Additional Action Required for Full Public Access

GAO-22-104574
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AmeriCorps The Chief Executive Officer of AmeriCorps should, in coordination with the Chief Data Officer of AmeriCorps, develop and implement an agency-wide plan to collect and publish information on the use of data assets by nongovernmental entities at least once a year. (Recommendation 3)
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In September 2023, AmeriCorps officials told us they planned to publish an open data plan that would include information on the agency's plans for collecting and publishing information on the use of the agency's data assets by nongovernmental entities. In February 2024, AmeriCorps officials said that they continue to work on developing their open data plan. We will continue to monitor AmeriCorps's progress to address this recommendation.

Grants Management: Monitoring Efforts by Corporation for National and Community Service Could Be Improved

GAO-17-90
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Agency Affected Recommendation Status
AmeriCorps To improve CNCS's efforts to move toward a risk-based process for monitoring grants and to improve its capacity for monitoring grantee compliance, the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service should, as part of CNCS's efforts to develop an employee development program, update critical competencies for grant monitoring, and establish a training planning process linked with agency goals and these competencies.
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CNCS reorganized its structure in 2019 to centralize monitoring activities into a new office, the Office of Monitoring. In creating this office, officials reported that OM leadership consulted with CNCS's Office of Human Capital regarding training needs. In December 2019, OM leadership met with the Director of Workforce Relations to discuss performance planning and competencies related to the monitoring positions to inform the development of individual work plans and individual training plans. OM adopted a standardized staff training curriculum that covers Federal grant requirements, grants management, and CNCS monitoring tools and processes, among other topics. CNCS reported that in October 2021, the agency began a workforce analysis to evaluate the Office of Monitoring's workforce structure and competencies. CNCS officials reported that additional funds received as part of the American Recovery Plan (Pub.L.No.117-2) will allow the agency to develop a 5-year strategic plan, including an agency-wide workforce analysis. To close this recommendation, CNCS will need to determine which competencies are critical for grant monitoring, and show how the competencies are linked with the agency's training planning processes and agency goals.
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