Preserve WV AmeriCorps Site Sponsor Application for the 2024-2025 Program Year

The Preserve WV AmeriCorps program is the Preservation Alliance of West Virginia’s (PAWV) statewide national service initiative where AmeriCorps members help main streets thrive, help communities capture their local history, and help preserve beloved West Virginia landmarks. PAWV is currently seeking site sponsors to host Preserve WV AmeriCorps members for the 2024-2025 service year beginning on September 3, 2024. To be eligible to sponsor a Preserve WV AmeriCorps, sites must be under-resourced nonprofit organizations or government agencies with historic preservation and/or history-oriented missions. Sites must complete the following application to be considered for the Preserve WV AmeriCorps program. Applications are due Friday, April 5, 2024. 

Note that this is a two-part application. All questions in the first section are required and will focus on the AmeriCorps member's general scope of service. Part two is focused on collecting information about potential hands-on historic preservation projects that can be incorporated as civic service projects and training opportunities. Part 2 is not required, but if you do plan to incorporate hands-on preservation into your project, you need to complete this section.

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Part 1 of the Application
Organization/Agency/Site Name *
Organization's Address, City, State, ZIP *
Number of Staff *
Number of Existing Volunteers *
Website URL *
Primary Phone for Organization *
Alternate phone 
Provide a description of organization/agency, including its official mission statement.
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If different from the organization/agency, describe the physical site where the member will primarily serve.
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Contact person (potential AmeriCorps site supervisor) plus their email address and phone number.
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Requested member type. *
Describe your organizational and/or community needs.  How will your organization/agency and/or community benefit from an AmeriCorps member’s service?  What problems are you trying to solve by having an AmeriCorps service member? How did you identify these needs?  
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During the recruitment process, PAWV will provide applicants with descriptions of the specific service opportunities available.  Please begin developing that crucial scope of service for your site by identifying tasks the member will be assigned to complete. What is the timeline for each activity? What benchmarks do you expect? How will these tasks help you meet certain needs, solve identified problems, or attain mission-driven goals? If you have previously sponsored a Preserve WV AmeriCorps member, how will you build upon that member’s service activities?
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What funding do you have available for the cash match sponsorship for the member?  What is your organizational capacity for supervising the member? Where will the AmeriCorps member have an office (our guidelines require members to have a physical service space)? 
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What years have you hosted a Preserve WV AmeriCorps member in the past?
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Part 2 of the Application - Requests for Hands-on Historic Preservation Civic Service Projects
Civic Service Projects are aimed at benefitting the community through some form of preplanned, hands-on community service activity that has immediate, tangible or visible results and is done by AmeriCorps members. AmeriCorps members are required to do two civic service projects per term (one is participatory, and one is leadership). The purpose of this section is to solicit hands-on historic preservation projects to be organized and executed by Preserve WV AmeriCorps members. 

Completion of this section is not a commitment from PAWV to do this service project. Information collected here will be used for planning purposes, and all project proposals being submitted through this form will be evaluated by PAWV staff before any work will be conducted. A site visit will be conducted as part of the review process.

Examples of projects done in the past are building clean outs, cemetery monument restoration, historic wooden window sash restoration, masonry restoration, and historic downtown beautification projects. This list is not exhaustive so if your project is not within the scope, please submit it anyway for our consideration.

All preservation work must conform to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. The connection to the future rehabilitation of the property should be made clear in the proposal.
Name and address of the proposed civic service project location
Is your property listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
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Who is the property owner?
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Explain the full breadth of the project you are asking to do. Please explain the project in full detail, as well as why the project would not happen without AmeriCorps assistance and what specific community need is being addressed. 
Additionally, what specific groups will be served/impacted through the project? What is the end result of this project?
Are there known hazardous materials and/or abatement completed (lead paint, asbestos, mold, etc.) at the building/property? 
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If there are known hazardous materials and/or abatement completed, please explain who tested for the hazardous materials, the date when the individual did the testing, and the results.  Identify where the hazardous materials are located and if steps have been taken to mitigate them.  
Do you already have supplies for this project? If yes, what are they?
Do you have any questions for PAWV? Submit here and we will respond to you directly by email. *
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