---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 2522.800"
title: "45"
number: "2522.800"
heading: "How will AmeriCorps evaluate individual AmeriCorps programs?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/2522.800"
---

# §2522.800. How will AmeriCorps evaluate individual AmeriCorps programs?


AmeriCorps will evaluate programs based on the following: (a) The extent to which the program meets the objectives established and agreed to by the grantee and AmeriCorps before the grant award;

- (b) The extent to which the program is cost-effective; and
- (c) **The effectiveness of the program in meeting the following legislative objectives—**
  - (1) Providing direct and demonstrable services and projects that benefit the community by addressing educational, public safety, human, or environmental needs;
  - (2) Recruiting and enrolling diverse participants consistent with the requirements of [part 2540](/cfr/45/part2540.md) of this chapter, based on economic background, race, ethnicity, age, gender, marital status, education levels, and disability;
  - (3) Promoting the educational achievement of each participant based on earning a high school diploma or its equivalent and future enrollment in and completion of increasingly higher levels of education;
  - (4) Encouraging each participant to engage in public and community service after completion of the program based on career choices and participation in other service programs;
  - (5) Promoting an ethic of active and productive citizenship among participants;
  - (6) Supplying additional volunteer assistance to community agencies without providing more volunteers than can be effectively utilized;
  - (7) Providing services and activities that could not otherwise be performed by employed workers and that will not supplant the hiring of, or result in the displacement of, employed workers; and
  - (8) **Other criteria determined and published by AmeriCorps.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[59 FR 13796, Mar. 23, 1994. Redesignated at 70 FR 39603, July 8, 2005]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 12571-12595; 12651b-12651d; E.O. 13331, 69 FR 9911, Sec. 1612, Pub. L. 111-13.

### Source

Source: 59 FR 13796, Mar. 23, 1994, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[59 FR 13796, Mar. 23, 1994. Redesignated at 70 FR 39603, July 8, 2005]