Prohibited Activities

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NC-ACTS! AmeriCorps members, like private citizens, may participate in any of the activities listed below on their own time, at their own expense, and at their own initiative.  Any individual may take part in the prohibited activities, at their service site, but they may not count that time toward an AmeriCorps term of service.
 
Political Activities

• Participating in efforts to influence legislation, including state or local ballot initiatives, or lobbying for your program;
• Organizing a letter-writing campaign to Congress;
• Engaging in partisan political activities, or other activities designed to influence the outcome of an election to any public office;
• Participating in, or endorsing, events or activities that are likely to include advocacy for or against political parties, political platforms, political candidates, proposed legislation, or elected officials;
• Voter registration drives;
• Organizing or participating in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes;

Religious Affairs

• Engaging in religious instruction;
• Conducting worship services;
• Providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship;
• Constructing or operating facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship;
• Maintaining facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship;
• Engaging in any form of religious proselytizing;

Union Activities

• Assisting, promoting, or deterring union organizing;
• Impairing existing contracts for services or collective bargaining agreements;

For-Profit Businesses

• Providing a direct benefit to a for-profit entity, a labor union, a partisan political organization, or an organization engaged in religious activities;

Safety Factors

• Participating in activities that pose a significant safety risk to participants;

Fundraising
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:

• Are not funding the agency’s capital or operating costs;
• Provide immediate and direct support to a specific and direct service activity;
• Fall within the program’s approved direct service objectives;
• Are not the primary activity of the program;
• Do not involve significant amounts of time for any Member;
• Are less than 10% (30 hours) of the total 300 hours to be served

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