Agmt16 Bay Area Community Resources - Public Allies - Americorps

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DocuSign Envelope ID: 0D24E772-6002-41F3-A49C-AE7B32A4F36F On occasion, your b%mber will be asked to represent PublicAltfes at special events and other activities. Public Allies will attempt to provide your Member with at least two days prior notice before the scheduled event. It is your Member's responsibility to obtain permission from you. If he or she attends the event without your approval, his or her absence will be counted as an unexcused absence. 11. Prohibited Activities A. Prohibited Activities -The Member is expected, at all times while acting in an official capacityas an AmeriCorps and Public Allies Member not to engage in any, of the follmving AmeriCorps Prohibited Activities, either direrdv or indirectly: • Attempting to influence legislation, including but not limited to lobbying for your program or stale or local ballot initiatives or organizing a letter -writing campaign to Congress; • Organizing or participating in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes; • Assisting, promoting or deterring union organizing•, • Conducting or assisting with a voter registration drive•, • Impairing existing contracts for services or collective bargaining agreements; • Engaging in partisan political activities, or other activities designed to influence the outcome of an election to any public office; • Participating in, or endorsing, events or activities that ate likely to include advocacy for or against political parties, political platforms, political candidates, proposed legislation, or elected officials; • 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; • Providing a direct benefit to: o A business organized for profit; o A tabor union; o A partisan political organization; o A nonprofit organization that fails to comply with the restrictions contained in section 5o1(e)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 related to engaging in political activities or substantial amount of lobbying; o An organization engaged in the religious activities described above, unless CNCS assistance is not used to support those religious activities; Conducting a voter registration drive or using CNCS funds to conduct a voter registration drive; Providing abortion services or referrals for receipt of such services; and • Such other aclividesas CNCS may prohibit. AmeriCorps members may not engage in the above activities directly or indirectly by recruitin/'., biJpinpp.. IF minaeinarthers for the primary purpose of engaging in one of the activities listed above. Inrlwrduals pray exercise their rights as private citizens and may participate in the activities listed Public Allies Poh-Pros for PO Supervisors, 2016-17 Page 19 of 24 REV: 11-08-1615 ATTY/AGR.2016.314tBay Area Community Resources - Public Allies Silicon Valley/San Francisco