Alignment with our Mission and Strategic Plan
For AmeriCorps to improve and sustain its mission, we have identified the FOR Plan as a top agency-wide strategic priority. The FOR aligns with AmeriCorps’ mission to improve lives, strengthen communities, and foster civic engagement through service and volunteering by building effective processes to best support our employees, grantees, members, volunteers, and the people we serve.
The FOR supports our Strategic Goal 4: Effectively steward federal resources, by streamlining financial and operational processes to reduce waste.
Definition and Importance
Launched in January 2023, FOR is a multi-year optimization effort committed to making permanent and sustainable financial and operational reform to enhance mission delivery.
FOR is focused on enhancing agency-wide financial and resources management through continuous process improvement, remediation of internal controls, and enhancement of governance and cross-agency communication.
Benefits
The FOR is already making an impact across AmeriCorps, providing the following benefits:
- Modernized systems
- Streamlined and efficient processes
- Federal compliance across AmeriCorps
- Unmodified audit opinion
- Detection and monitoring of fraud, waste, or abuse of federal funds
- Proactively identified risks to AmeriCorps
- Assessed risk exposure