What Fundraising Activities are allowed?

NOTE: Members can spend no more than 10% of their term of service fundraising and the hours will count against their no more than 20% member development hours (fundraising does not count as direct service)

In general, AmeriCorps members cannot assist their organizations with major fundraising efforts. However, Corporation policy permits some limited activities related to fundraising by AmeriCorps Members to the extent that such activities:

• Provide immediate and direct support to a specific and direct service activity;
• Fall within the program's approved direct service objectivities;
• Are not the primary activity of the program;
• Involve in-kind donations rather than cash donations

Examples of fundraising activities members may perform include, but are not limited to the following:

• Seeking donations of books from companies and individuals for a program in which volunteers tutor children to read.
• Writing a grant proposal to a foundation to secure resources to support the training of volunteers.
• Securing supplies and equipment from the community to enable volunteers to help build houses for low-income individuals.
• Securing financial resources from the community to assist a faith-based or community-based organization in launching or expanding a program that provides social services to the members of the community and is delivered, in whole or in part, through the members of the faith-based organization.
• Seeking a donation from alumni of the program for specific service projects being performed by current members.