**Overview**

This is an optional tool to help you **plan**placement of your volunteers in Performance Measures for **the three-year performance period**, as specified in the Notice of Funding Opportunity and Grant Application Instructions. By using these templates to preplan how your volunteers will be placed in service opportunities and activities, you can plot the scope of your AmeriCorps Seniors RSVP project and your Work Plans. Additionally, the completed worksheets can be used as reference when you enter your Work Plan data into the eGrants System. 

**Instructions**

1) **As you complete these worksheets, we encourage you to reference the resources available on the  Manage AmeriCorps Seniors Grants particularly:**

a. **The Notice**

b. **Appendix B: AmeriCorps Seniors RSVP National Performance Measure Instructions**

c. **AmeriCorps Seniors RSVP Grants Application Instructions**

d. **AmeriCorps Seniors Performance Measures COVID-19 Options**

2) **Use the following definitions when calculating “Total Number of Unduplicated Volunteers” and “Total Number of Volunteers”:**

· **Number of Unduplicated Volunteers:**This is the proposed number of volunteers who will be performing each service activity.  Each volunteer can only be counted once when assigned to a service activity. The volunteer should be counted in the area where he/she will make the most impact- in terms of the type of service or in terms of the scope of service, such as the most number of hours served.

· **Total Number of Volunteers:**The total number of volunteers engaged in the activities, if you were to assign all of them according to each activity, will be entered in this section. In this way, volunteers **can**be counted more than once- for example, if the same volunteer does two different types of activities such as meal delivery AND companionship, you can account for all assignments in this field.

**TIP:**When completing these worksheets and entering your volunteer numbers into the eGrants System, remember that the sum of the Number of Unduplicated Volunteers from each work plan must equal the Total Number of Unduplicated Volunteers for the project.    

**Volunteer Calculations:**

1) **The total number of unduplicated volunteers in your proposed project: ______**

This is the number is that appears in the column labelled “Number of Unduplicated Volunteers” for the service area that you intend to serve in Appendix A to the Notice. 

*Figure 1 – Use this column to identify the total number of unduplicated volunteers required for the service area for which you intend to apply.*

2) **The total number of unduplicated volunteers you must program into work plans that result in national performance measure outcomes =  ________ volunteers**

As explained on pg. 4 of the NOTICE, to find this number, divide the annual federal funding you are requesting by $1,000. For example, an applicant requesting $100,000 would be required to program 100 unduplicated volunteers into work plans that result in national performance measure outcomes. An applicant requesting $50,000 would be required to program 50 unduplicated volunteers into work plans that result in national performance measure outcomes. As stated on pg. 3 of the NOTICE, applicants must propose a budget that utilizes no more than the federal funding associated with the opportunity listed in Appendix A.

*Figure 2 – Use this column to identify the maximum available funding for the service area for which you intend to apply. If you request the maximum amount of funding available, you would divide this figure by $1,000 to determine the number of unduplicated volunteers you must program into work plans that result in national performance measure outcomes.*

3) **Your remaining number of unduplicated volunteers, if any = ________ volunteers**

This is the number you entered in Step 1 above minus the number you entered in Step 2. These volunteers may either be programmed into work plans that result in result in national performance measure outcomes OR Other Community Priorities.

4) **Select your primary focus area**

  Education  	  Healthy Futures  	  Economic Opportunity  	

  Veterans and Military Families 	  Environmental Stewardship	  Disaster Services

You must submit at least one work plan with service in the primary focus area you choose. The primary focus area should represent the area in which an applicant intends to make the most impact. 

5) **Use the worksheets below****as needed to plan placement for your unduplicated volunteers and draft your work plans.**

Work plans use annual figures/ Use the number of unduplicated volunteers, outputs and outcomes you intend to achieve in **Year 3** of your program. If awarded, you will be able to make progress towards those goals in Year 1 and Year 2 of your grant. 

6) **For each service activity, you will create a new work plan. This is required in eGrants. All of the information in the worksheets below is required for each work plan that results in national performance measure outcomes. You will use a new sheet to draft each of these work plans. Ten sheets are provided. You may copy and paste more if you would like more. You will need to replace all text enclosed in brackets and colored red: [Red].**

7) **The 11th Worksheet in this document may be used for Other Community Priorities volunteers. See the specific instructions on that sheet for more information.**

8) **When you are done, check your work. Ensure that the total number of unduplicated volunteers equals the Year 3 requirement for unduplicated volunteers in work plans that result in national performance measure outcomes plus any remaining unduplicated volunteers.**

The table below contains an example for an applicant that requests $75,000 in funding to support a service area with a minimum of 200 unduplicated volunteers: 

9) **Once you have completed these worksheets and you are ready to enter Work Plan data into the eGrants System, please refer back to the Grant Application Instructions for step-by-step instructions on how to enter data into the Performance Measures and Work Plans Module.**

****Work Plan Development Worksheet		Focus Area:	[Choose One]		Objective: 	[Choose One] 

****Work Plan Development Worksheet		Focus Area:	[Choose One]		Objective: 	[Choose One] 

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****Work Plan Development Worksheet		Focus Area:	[Choose One]		Objective: 	[Choose One] 

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****Work Plan Development Worksheet		Focus Area:	[Choose One]		Objective: 	[Choose One] 

****Work Plan Development Worksheet		Focus Area: OTHER COMMUNITY PRIORITIES		Objective: OTHER COMMUNITY PRIORITIES 

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