This presentation summarizes the goals, structure, and benefits of the Bonner AmeriCorps Program.

1. The Bonner Program:
Managing Bonner AmeriCorps
“Access to Education,
Opportunity to Serve”
A program of:
The Corella & Bertram Bonner Foundation
10 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ 08540
(609) 924-6663 • (609) 683-4626 fax
For more information, please visit our website at www.bonner.org

2. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Types of Slots Available
Choose the slots that make the most sense for your
program, your community partners, and your
members.
2 Year,
Term Minimum Quarter
Half-time
Hours 300 450 900
Ed Award $1,000 $1,250 $2,362
Remember: There is a two-term maximum!
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3. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Campus & Agency (Service Site) Agreements
• Campus Site Agreement — Sign &
return to Bonner Foundation
• Agency (Service Site) Agreements:
Community partners sign & return to campus to
be filed
Agreement Forms provided by Foundation in
AmeriCorps Enrollment materials and on our
website
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4. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Preparing Bonner Web-Based Reporting System
All Bonner Programs (not just those enrolled in Bonner
AmeriCorps) must use BWBRS to:
• Set up school calendar
• Enter Agency Profiles and Service
Opportunities*
• Set up Training & Enrichment
Activities*
* Ensure that AmeriCorps members hours are appropriate (i.e.,
not on list of Prohibited Activities)
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5. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Enrolling Members with Bonner Foundation
• AmeriCorps Enrollment Workbook:
Campus administrator & student complete, sign,
and mail to Bonner Foundation within 20 days of
your start date
• If it is your second term, we still need
documentation of citizenship
• Start date cannot be prior to date of member
signing contract
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6. Bonner AmeriCorps: Text
Enrolling Members with Bonner Foundation
 Criminal Background Check
– Every student must have a National criminal
background check processed by The Bonner
Foundation, the School, or the Service Site.
 Sex Offender Registry
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7. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Enrolling Members with Bonner Foundation
• BWBRS:
• Campus administrator enters student
AmeriCorps enrollment section on BWBRS
• Campus administrator provides student with
BWBRS-generated log-in & password
• Student completes Contact & General Profiles
information on BWBRS
• MyAmeriCorps Portal:
• Once enrollment in BWBRs has been
activated by the Foundation, student must
register in www.myamericorps.org
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8. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Community Learning Agreements
• Create CLA on BWBRS each semester.
Make sure to include detailed service and
learning objectives.
• Print & sign CLA (agency, student & staff)
• Mail CLA to Foundation for official
enrollment and activation
Hard copies of CLAs must be received at Foundation
with the submission of the first monthly Hour Log
Reports each semester and summer before any
hours can be approved.
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9. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Mailing Hour Log Reports to Bonner Foundation
• Each week:
• Students enter Hour Logs into BWBRS each week
• Each month:
• Print out Hour Log from BWBRS by MONTH
• Student, site supervisor & campus administrator sign
logs
• Campus administrator approves hours on BWBRS
• Campus administrator mails signed hard copies with
original signatures to Foundation
• NO FAXED OR COPIED SIGNATURES WILL BE
ACCEPTED.
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10. Bonner AmeriCorps:
End-of-Semester Service Accomplishments
• Each semester:
• Students enters summary of what they accomplished in
BWBRS
• Print out Service Accomplishments Report from
BWBRS
• Student, site supervisor & campus administrator sign
Service Accomplishment Report
• Campus administrator mails signed hard copies to
Foundation
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11. Bonner AmeriCorps:
End-of-Term Review & Reporting
• Review all member Hour Logs to ensure that they have
been received & approved by the Bonner Foundation.
If necessary, send in signed missing information.
• Mail official AmeriCorps Exit Form to Foundation for
exit (make sure it is signed by student)
Exit Forms must be received by Foundation within 20 days
of member’s last day of service!!
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12. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Suspensions from AmeriCorps
• Limited to two years
• Must be for “personal and compelling” circumstances
or study abroad
• Campus administrators and AmeriCorps members
must complete the official Suspension/
Reinstatement Form and return it to the
Foundation within 25 days
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13. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Ineligible Service
• On-campus activities where there is no direct link to
the community at large
• Receiving Academic Credit
• Administrative work that is not a result of direct
service
• Fundraising-only 10% of total hours
• Medical or scientific research
• For profit entities
• International service
• Prohibited activities as defined in enrollment book on
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14. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Tips for Selecting Service Sites
• Community, Community, Community (outside, not
campus community)
• Mentoring
• Tutoring
• Disaster Relief
• Anti-Hunger
• WHEN IN DOUBT, RULE IT OUT (but ask us anyway!)
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15. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Terminations
• Must be requested in writing by campus
administrator
• Must either be “for cause” or “for personal &
compelling circumstances”
• Will receive proportionate ed award if for
“personal & compelling circumstances”
• Will receive no award if “for cause”
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16. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Resources
• Implementation Guide: Bonner AmeriCorps
• Bonner AmeriCorps Program Director’s
Handbook
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17. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Self-Assessment
AmeriCorps Management:
The Bonner Program meets requirements and expectations
for managing its AmeriCorps positions, including
paperwork, tracking use of BWBRS, and adhering to
guidelines and prohibited activities (if applicable).
Policy changes happen and we will inform you of these new
requirements as they are dictated to us by the Corporation
for National and Community Service.
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