How to Become A Host Site

How to Become a Host Site

If your organization is a rural nonprofit museum, archive, historical society, main street organization, or convention visitors bureau looking to expand its capacity, please consider applying to participate in the Missouri Humanities Corps! Applications must be submitted by March 21, 2025.

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Learn How to Become a Host Site

Watch our Host Site Workshop Video to learn who qualifies as a Host Site and how to apply!

Things To Know

Requirements for Participation

Member Time Allocation

Members spend 75% of their time at host sites and 25% at two sub-sites.

Staffing Reqirements

Host sites must have at least one full-time staff member; sub-sites must have none.

Application Process

Host sites select sub-sites as co-applicants, applying together in one package. (Application link below)

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Applications must be submitted by March 21, 2025.

Program Funding Contingency This program is dependent on state funding and will proceed only if the requested funding is approved. Prospective sites will be provided with updates regarding the status of the funding.

Host Organization (Legal Name)

Primary Contact Person

Mailing Street Address

City

Zip Code

Phone #

Your Website

Organization mission, vision, programming structure (200–350 words)

Experience with Volunteers and Interns (200–350 words)

Goals and Objectives

Humanities Corps is a program representing AmeriCorps’s focus area of capacity building. Capacity Building is defined as activities that expand an organization’s scale, reach, efficiency, or effectiveness. These activities enable organizations to provide expanded, better, and sustained direct services to their audiences and stakeholders in sustainable ways.

Organizational Needs

Impact and Outreach

Impact on Community

Subsites

Humanities Corps members are required to spend 25% of their time working with organizations without full-time staff in the same community/region as the host site. Please upload a commitment letter from each subsite, which should include the subsite’s commitment to participating in the program, how they plan to cooperate with the Humanities Corps members’ primary site supervisor, and an outline of the tasks the member will conduct for their organization.

1. Upload PDF/Word Document Here

2. Upload PDF/Word Document Here

Work Plan & Service Year Activities

Local History Member Work Plan - Please provide a general outline of your vision of the member’s activities for your site and your subsite partners during each Humanities Corps program quarter. (The first quarter includes the last week of August, and often includes time in training and orientation to the site and the region.)

Member Work Plan/Activities

Sep – Dec Quarter 1

Jan – March Quarter 2

April – June Quarter 3

July – Aug Quarter 4

Site Supervisor

About the Supervisor
Host sites are required to identify a Site Supervisor who will provide day-to-day supervision to the Humanities Corps member. This person must be available to meet, at minimum, biweekly (weekly is recommended) with the Humanities Corps member to discuss projects, goals, and actions. See Site Supervisor position description for full account of supervisor requirements. (A full time staff member is required to serve as the Member Supervisor.)

Name of Site Supervisor

Title

Is this person a full-time?

Yes No

How much of this person’s time will be spent in AmeriCorps supervision?

Does this person have experience supervising employees/volunteers/interns? If yes, how many?

Supervisor Commitment to Trainings
Please acknowledge the Site Supervisor’s commitment to attend the following trainings/workshops:

Orientation for Host Site Supervisors To be announced – between the 18 and 22 of August

Yes No

Bimonthly Zoom Meetings Approximately 1 hour, twice a month

Yes No

Working with Other Staff
If the Humanities Corps member will be working closely with staff other than the supervisor, please provide the name(s) of the staff and explain the capacity in which the member will work with them. Please ensure that these staff members understand the member’s role and activities at the site.

Persons Name

Capacity/Role

Email Address

Persons Name

Capacity/Role

Email Address

Persons Name

Capacity/Role

Email Address

Persons Name

Capacity/Role

Email Address

*Individuals listed above will be expected to complete a webinar conducted by the program which will provide information about the role of the member and the history of AmeriCorps. This is to ensure that the burden of program compliance is not solely on the supervisor and will provide greater support for supervisor and member throughout the program year.

Training

On-Site Orientation and Training
As part of the onboarding process for a new Humanities Corps member, Site Supervisors must acquaint the new member with the staff, community, and initial work plan. This orientation should begin as soon as the new member starts at the site. Please note that these hours can be counted by the member as training hours on their time sheet. Some examples of appropriate onboarding sessions include (but are not limited to): • Organization policies and procedures for employees • Overview of your organization’s workplace culture • Tour of the facilities or host site program sites • Informal introductions to staff • Staff meetings • Staff in-service trainings • Introduction to community volunteers and partners

Below, please provide a list of activities that you plan to include on the On Site Orientation and Training:

Resources

Supplies
Host sites are required to make available all of the following items to their Humanities Corps member. Please acknowledge and agree to this commitment by checking whether the member’s access to each item will be on an individual basis or shared.

Dedicated Work Space

Individual Shared

Telephone

Individual Shared

Voicemail

Individual Shared

Printer

Individual Shared

Computer w/ Internet

Individual Shared

Signatures

The applicant certifies that to the best of their knowledge that the information provided is true and correct, that the filing of this application has been duly authorized by the governing body of the applicant, and that the applicant will comply with the assurances required in the Missouri Humanities Humanities Corps Memorandum of Understanding if the host site is approved. E-signatures are acceptable.

Upload Letter of Commitment

Print Name of Site Supervisor

Title

Date

Agreement of Acceptance

By checking this acceptance box, the applicant certifies that to the best of their knowledge that the information provided is true and correct, that the filing of this application has been duly authorized by the governing body of the applicant, and that the applicant will comply with the assurances required in the Missouri Humanities Humanities Corps Memorandum of Understanding if the host site is approved.

Authorized Organizational Representative
*This person must have authority to sign agreements on behalf of the host site/applicant. May be the same as Site Supervisor.

Name of Authorized Organizational Representative

Title

Date

Agreement of Acceptance

Some proposals may be subject to negotiation or adjustments to the scope of services, while others could depend on the availability of relevant skills and/or the location of members.

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