[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 93 (Monday, May 17, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26702-26703]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-10333]


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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Application Package for AmeriCorps Program Life Cycle 
Evaluation--Volunteer Generation Fund Grant Program Evaluation

AGENCY: The Corporation for National and Community Service.

ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 
Corporation for National and Community Service, operating as 
AmeriCorps, is proposing a new information collection.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the individual and office 
listed in the ADDRESSES section by July 16, 2021.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by the title of the 
information collection activity, by any of the following methods:
    (1) By mail sent to: AmeriCorps, Attention Lily Zandniapour, 250 E 
Street SW, Washington, DC 20525.
    (2) By hand delivery or by courier to the AmeriCorps mailroom at 
the mail address given in paragraph (1) above, between 9:00 a.m. and 
4:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except federal holidays.
    (3) Electronically through www.regulations.gov.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice may be made available 
to the public through regulations.gov. For this reason, please do not 
include in your comments information of a confidential nature, such as 
sensitive personal information or proprietary information. If you send 
an email comment, your email address will be automatically captured and 
included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket and 
made available on the internet. Please note that responses to this 
public comment request containing any routine notice about the 
confidentiality of the communication will be treated as public comment 
that may be made available to the public, notwithstanding the inclusion 
of the routine notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Xiaodong Zhang, 703-251-0883, or by 
email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title of Collection: AmeriCorps Program Life Cycle Evaluation--
Volunteer Generation Fund Bundled Evaluation.
    OMB Control Number: TBD. Type of Review: New.
    Respondents/Affected Public: Grantees, program implementers, 
volunteer organizations and volunteers.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 971 respondents.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 327 hours.
    Abstract: The purpose of this evaluation is to understand grantees' 
use of Volunteer Generation Fund (VGF) grant program funds to support 
volunteer organizations and determine how effective grantees' 
approaches are at enhancing the capacity of these organizations, 
increasing volunteer recruitment and retention, and increasing 
implementation of volunteer management best practices within their 
states. The research questions for this evaluation are:
    1. What are the grantees' approaches for utilizing VGF funds to 
improve volunteer recruitment, retention, and support of volunteers 
within their states and among volunteer organizations?
    2. What are promising practices and challenges in implementing 
these programs?
    3. What are preliminary outcomes of these programs on volunteer

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organizations? AmeriCorps will conduct a bundled evaluation of grantees 
that are implementing VGF grants. Bundling allows AmeriCorps to combine 
a group of small programs across different funding streams with similar 
program models and intended outcomes into a single evaluation. Spanning 
27 months, the evaluation will work with 15 grantees to examine program 
design, implementation, and outcomes using surveys, interviews, and 
focus groups with a wide range of stakeholders including grantee staff, 
program implementers, volunteers, and beneficiaries. This is a new 
information collection.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and/or included in the request for OMB approval. Comments are invited 
on: (a) Whether the collection of information is necessary for the 
proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether 
the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 
agency's estimate of the burden of the collection of information; (c) 
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of 
information on respondents, including through the use of automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and (e) 
estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation, 
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden 
means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by 
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information 
to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review 
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and 
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying 
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and 
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to 
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and 
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise 
disclose the information. All written comments will be available for 
public inspection on regulations.gov.

    Dated: May 12, 2021.
Lily Zandniapour,
Research and Evaluation Manager.
[FR Doc. 2021-10333 Filed 5-14-21; 8:45 am]
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