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5. Discipline/termination (if necessary): Ensure that members comply with the terms of the Member Service Agreement. Host sites must be involved with resolving work problems of members and may be involved in the Grievance Procedures. The Host Site Supervisor must notify and work closely with the MPCA Human Resources staff on disciplinary action. A site may not decide to terminate a member. Only designated MPCA staff has the authority to suspend or release a Minnesota GreenCorps member from service for disciplinary reasons. 6. Complete performance evaluations: Complete a mid -year and end -of -year member performance evaluation. 7. Submit in-kind documentation: Submit in-kind reports monthly through the OnCorps Reports online system, and provide hard copy documentation. 8. Reportable and measurable outcomes: Oversee and approve the member's submission of quarterly updates to the MPCA on project progress on forms and a timeline determined by the MPCA, and a final report that includes lessons learned and project measures for success. VII. Prohibited activities for AmeriCorps members The Host Site understands that when accumulating service or training hours, or otherwise performing activities supported by the AmeriCorps Program or the Corporation, members may not engage in the following activities: A. Attempting to influence legislation. B. Organizing or engaging in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes. C. Assisting, promoting, or deterring union organizing. D. Impairing existing Agreements for services or collective bargaining agreements. E. Engaging in partisan political activities or other activities designed to influence the outcome of an election to any public office. F. Participating in, or endorsing, events or activities that are likely to include advocacy for or against political parties, platforms, political candidates, proposed legislation, or elected officials. G. 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; or engaging in any form of religious proselytization. H. Providing a direct benefit to: a for-profit business entity, a labor union, a partisan political organization, a non-profit organization that fails to comply with the restrictions contained in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or an organization engaged in the religious activities described above. I. Voter registration drives. J. Raise funds for living allowances or for an organization's general (as opposed to project) operating expenses or endowment; or write a grant application to the Corporation or any other federal agency. 1. Per § 2520.40 AmeriCorps members may: a. Raise resources directly in support of a program's service activities. b. Perform fundraising activities including, but not limited to, the following: i. Seeking donations of books from companies and individuals for a program in which volunteers teach children to read. ii. Writing a grant proposal to a foundation to secure resources to support the training of volunteers. iii. Securing supplies and equipment from the community to enable volunteers to help build houses for low-income individuals iv. Securing financial resources from the community to assist in launching or expanding a program that provides social services to the members of the community and is delivered, in whole or in part, through the members of a community-based organization. v. Seeking donations from alumni of the program for specific service projects being performed by current members. An AmeriCorps member may spend no more than 10% of his or her originally agreed-upon term of service, as reflected in the member enrollment in the National Service Trust, performing fundraising activities, as described in § 2520.40. K. Clerical work or research unless such activities are incidental to the member's direct service activities. L. Providing abortion services or referrals for receipt of such services. M. Such other activities as the Corporation may prohibit. N. AmeriCorps members may not engage in the above activities directly or indirectly by recruiting, training, or managing others for the primary purposes of engaging in one of the activities listed above. Individuals may Page 28 of 34 I February 2019 1 p-mgc2-03