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10. Insurance Coverage: RSVP will furnish supplemental accident, personal liability, and excess automobile <br />liability insurance according to the Corporation for National and Community Service policies. <br />11. Volunteer Safety: The volunteer station will provide for adequate safety of volunteers, which includes a <br />written safety plan on file with RSVP and agrees to submit an annual assurance email upon request by the <br />project sponsor. In consultation with RSVP, the volunteer station will make investigations and reports <br />regarding accidents and injuries involving RSVP volunteers. <br />12. Timesheets: The volunteer station will collect, validate and sign appropriate timesheets for each month and <br />submit them to RSVP no later than the 5th of the month following service. Timesheets are important for <br />recording hours of service, optional reimbursements for volunteers, insurance documentation and in-kind <br />volunteer meal support from select stations. <br />13. Reporting Requirements: RSVP will request statistical information from agency partner bi-annually to <br />comply with RSVP Federal and State reporting requirements. <br />14. Separation from Volunteer Service: The volunteer station may request removal of a volunteer at anytime. <br />The volunteer may resign from service at the volunteer station or from RSVP at anytime. RSVP staff, <br />volunteer station staff and the volunteer will discuss possible termination to clarify the reason, resolve <br />conflicts, or take remedial action including reassignment. <br />15. Prohibited Activities: Volunteers and grantee staff do not engage in, and grantee funds are not used for, any <br />of the following activities, to the extent they are prohibited in the applicable program regulations: Electoral <br />activities; voter registration; voter transportation to polls; and efforts to influence legislation. Grant funds are <br />not used to finance labor or anti-labor organizations or related activity. Project staff or volunteers do not give <br />religious instruction, conduct worship services, or engage in proselytization as part of their duties. <br />16. Displacement of Employees: RSVP volunteers may not be assigned to any duties, which would otherwise <br />be performed by an employed worker or which would supplant the hiring of or result in the displacement of <br />employed workers or impair existing contracts for services. RSVP volunteers will discontinue service at the <br />volunteer station in the event of an employee strike. <br />17. Prohibition of Discrimination: The Volunteer Station will not discriminate against RSVP volunteers <br />or in the operation of its program on the basis of race; color; national origin, including limited English <br />proficiency; sex; age; political affiliation; sexual orientation; religion; or on the basis of disability, if the <br />volunteer is a qualified individual with a disability. <br />18. Accessibility and Reasonable Accommodation: The Volunteer Station will maintain the programs and <br />activities to which RSVP volunteers are assigned accessible to persons with disabilities (including mobility, <br />hearing, vision, mental, and cognitive impairments or addictions and diseases) and/or limited English <br />language proficiency and provide reasonable accommodation to allow persons with disabilities to participate <br />in programs and activities. <br />19. Compensation: Neither the grantee nor any volunteer station requests or receives compensation from the <br />beneficiaries of Senior Corps volunteers. Any volunteer station financial support of the Senior Corps project <br />is not a precondition for that station to obtain volunteer service. A Senior Corps volunteer does not receive a <br />fee for service from service recipients, their legal guardians, or members of their family, or friends. <br />20. Consultation: The volunteer station and RSVP will confer regularly to discuss volunteer needs and <br />concerns. <br />21. Recruitment Acknowledgement: The volunteer station will make written and/or verbal public <br />acknowledgment for the volunteer recruitment efforts RSVP has provided for the station. The volunteer <br />station will allow RSVP space for promotional materials at public one-time events.