Common use of Fundraising Policy Clause in Contracts

Fundraising Policy. TerraCorps Members are subject to the same rules on fundraising as Members in all AmeriCorps State or National programs. These rules are set forth in the grant provisions: A Member’s service activities may not include organized fundraising, including financial campaigns, endowment drives, solicitation of gifts and bequests and similar activities designed for the sole purpose of raising capital or obtaining contributions for the organization. Service activities that raise funds or in-kind contributions while generating, involving and/or encouraging community support may be considered appropriate and allowable, such as serve- a-thons, to the extent that they are in direct and immediate support of an approved objective of the program and provided that they are not the program’s primary activity and do not involve significant amounts of an individual Member’s time. Prohibited activities for Members include preparing grant proposals and performing other fundraising activities to help Grantee achieve its matching requirements or to support an organization’s general operating expenses and providing fundraising assistance to other community-based organizations that do not provide immediate and direct support to a Grantee’s approved program objective. To clarify, Members may raise funds directly related to service activities that meet local, environmental, educational, public safety, homeland security or other human needs. Examples of fundraising activities Members may perform include, but are not limited to:

Fundraising Policy. TerraCorps TerraCorps–AmeriCorps Members are subject to the same rules on fundraising as Members in all AmeriCorps State or National programs. These rules are set forth in the grant provisions: A Member’s service activities may not include organized fundraising, including financial campaigns, endowment drives, solicitation of gifts and bequests and similar activities designed for the sole purpose of raising capital or obtaining contributions for the organization. Service activities that raise funds or in-kind contributions while generating, involving and/or encouraging community support may be considered appropriate and allowable, such as serve- serve-a-thons, to the extent that they are in direct and immediate support of an approved objective of the program and provided that they are not the program’s primary activity and do not involve significant amounts of an individual Member’s time. Prohibited activities for Members include preparing grant proposals and performing other fundraising activities to help Grantee achieve its matching requirements or to support an organization’s general operating expenses expenses, and providing fundraising assistance to other community-based organizations that do not provide immediate and direct support to a Grantee’s approved program Program objective. To clarify, AmeriCorps TerraCorps Members may raise funds directly related to service activities that meet local, environmental, educational, public safety, homeland security or other human needs. Examples of fundraising activities Members may perform include, but are not limited to: