This document provides information about the Bonner AmeriCorps program. It details the program's education awards for terms of service, how the awards can help offset education costs, and the steps to enroll students and track their service hours to qualify for awards. Eligible placements must involve direct service and benefit the local community. Students must be US citizens or legal residents to enroll. Campus staff are responsible for submitting members' service hours logs and completing an exit form once service is finished.

1. The Bonner Program:
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. What is
AmeriCorps?

3. Bonner AmeriCorps:
What is AmeriCorps?
• National service program that
provides Education Awards
• Federally-funded, locally
implemented
• Managed by the Corporation for
National and Community
Service
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4. Why Bonner
AmeriCorps?

5. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Education Awards
2 Year,
Term Minimum Quarter
Half-time
Hours 300 450 900
Ed Award $1,000 25%$1,250 $2,362.50
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6. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Financial Assistance
$20,000
$15,000
$10,000
$5,000
25%
$0
4 Year Total
Ed Award ($4,725)
Typical Education Loans ($19,000)
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7. Implementation

8. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Step 1: Evaluate Placements
What makes an AmeriCorps eligible placement?
✓ Direct service
✓ Benefits local community
✓ Does not include activities prohibited by
AmeriCorps regulations
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9. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Step 1: Evaluate Placements
What makes a Bonner Placement ineligible
for AmeriCorps?
✓ Influences legislation
✓ Focuses on international service
✓ Benefits campus community instead of local
community
✓ Indirect service (placement is primarily fundraising
or administrative or clerical)
✓ Religious or evangelical component
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10. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Step 2 — Offer to Eligible Students
What makes a Student eligible?
✓ An AmeriCorps Member must be a U.S. Citizen or
Legal Permanent Resident
‣ Documentation is required
✓ Other questions to consider:
‣ Do they have a strong interest in serving at
an AmeriCorps-eligible site?
‣ Does the student want to go abroad soon?
Eligible Placement + Eligible Person = AmeriCorps
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11. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Step 3 — Enroll Members
• Every prospective member
✓ fills out an Bonner AmeriCorps
Enrollment Workbook
✓ provides citizen documentation
✓ passes a background check
completed by Foundation
✓ must have an account on
BWBRS
• Treat enrollment booklet
like a binding legal contract
✓ Complete in pen (no wite-out)
✓ Be aware of signature dates
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12. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Step 4 — Member Reporting
• Members complete
same forms required of
every Bonner:
✓ CLAs
✓ Hours Log Reports
✓ Service Accomplishments
• Campus staff submits
approved originals of the
following for each
AmeriCorps member:
✓ Monthly hours logs
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13. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Approving Hour Logs
Campus Staff
checks these
boxes!
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14. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Tracking Enrollment Status
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15. Bonner AmeriCorps:
Step 5 — Exit Members
After Member completes
hours, campus staff...
✓ reviews submitted hours
and hours logged on BWBRS to
confirm required number of Complete
hours has been completed Page 1
✓ resolves open cases Only
✓ submits Exit Form to Bonner
Foundation within 15 days of
Member’s last day of service
✓ completes End-of-Term
Evaluation in BWBRS
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16. Where Do I Find Resources?
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