Eight subjects. All of them show up in the same audit.

Pick the one that’s keeping you up. They’re more connected than they look — a timesheet problem becomes a financial reporting problem becomes a monitoring finding.

Member Timesheets

Time and attendance documentation that survives a monitoring visit: what has to be on the record, who signs it, when corrections are allowed, and how hour categories get counted.

For: Program directors, program managers, site supervisors

Member Files

Eligibility documentation, criminal history checks, enrollment and exit paperwork, and the retention rules that decide how long all of it has to stay put.

For: Program directors, HR and member services staff

Progress Reporting

Writing progress reports that hold up: narrative that matches the data, performance measure results you can trace, and the discipline of reporting what actually happened.

For: Program directors, commission program officers

Financial Reporting

Federal Financial Reports, match and cost share documentation, drawdowns, allowable costs, and reconciling what you reported to what your books say.

For: Finance directors, grants managers, commission fiscal staff

Performance Measurement

Building measures you can actually defend — instruments, data collection, documentation of results, and the difference between an output and an outcome.

For: Program directors, evaluators, commission staff

Subgrantee Monitoring

Risk assessment, monitoring plans, site visits, timesheet and member file reviews, findings, and corrective action — the pass-through entity's whole job.

For: State service commissions, multi-site parent organizations

OIG Findings

What the AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General has actually flagged in recent audits, and what it means for how you run your program on Monday morning.

For: Everyone who would rather read about someone else's finding than have their own

2 CFR 200 Basics

The Uniform Guidance, translated. Internal controls, allowability, documentation of personnel expenses, record retention, and audit requirements — as they apply to AmeriCorps.

For: Anyone who has ever opened the eCFR and immediately closed it again