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Management Challenges for Fiscal Year 2017
This report identifies management and performance challenges facing the Corporation. We selected these challenges considering past and ongoing audit, review, and investigative work, as well as discussions with CNCS management regarding existing vulnerabilities. We also considered new activities that could pose challenges because of their breadth and complexity.
Grantee Debarred for Misuse of VISTA Members and Required to Repay $527,000 in Disallowed Costs
Corporation management reported VISTA Project Sponsor Georgia Center for Nonprofits (GCN), Atlanta, GA, improperly utilized its VISTA members when it directed members to perform staff functions and changed clients for their services.
Improper Oversight Results in Fraudulent Timesheets / Members Serving from Home without Accountability of Service Performed
A hotline complainant reported that members serving with the St. Bernard Project (SBP), Wall Township, NJ, were unsupervised, falsely reporting service hours, and working in unsafe working conditions.
Duplicate and Improper Enrollments Leads to Changes by National Direct Grantee
CNCS management reported that it discovered anomalies with the National Service Participants (NSP) accounts in the National Service Trust (NST) database in which AmeriCorps members had been enrolled in Teach for America (TFA) Idaho and Chicago AmeriCorps programs between Grant Years (GY) 2013 - 2017 under multiple NSP accounts with different Social Security Numbers.
Grant Reviewer Plagiarized Work Product
CNCS management discovered a temporary CNCS employee hired to serve as a panel member for the 2016 AmeriCorps State and National Grant Review process submitted work products that appeared to have been plagiarized from her follow panel reviewers.
Fraudulent Claims Result in Reimbursement and “High Risk” Oversight
A hotline complainant reported that Senior Resources of Guilford (SRG), Greensboro, NC, officials fraudulently claimed that the Foster Grandparent Program (FGP) Project Director worked a percentage of her time on the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), for which the grantee sought reimbursement.