Section 2520.65 - [Effective until 10/1/2024] What activities are prohibited in AmeriCorps subtitle C programs?(a) While charging time to the AmeriCorps program, accumulating service or training hours, or otherwise performing activities supported by the AmeriCorps program or the Corporation, staff and members may not engage in the following activities:(1) Attempting to influence legislation;(2) Organizing or engaging in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes;(3) Assisting, promoting, or deterring union organizing;(4) Impairing existing contracts for services or collective bargaining agreements;(5) Engaging in partisan political activities, or other activities designed to influence the outcome of an election to any public office;(6) Participating in, or endorsing, events or activities that are likely to include advocacy for or against political parties, political platforms, political candidates, proposed legislation, or elected officials;(7) 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;(8) Providing a direct benefit to- (i) A business organized for profit;(iii) A partisan political organization;(iv) A nonprofit organization that fails to comply with the restrictions contained in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 except that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent participants from engaging in advocacy activities undertaken at their own initiative;(v) An organization engaged in the religious activities described in paragraph (g) of this section, unless Corporation assistance is not used to support those religious activities; and(9) Conducting a voter registration drive or using Corporation funds to conduct a voter registration drive;(10) Providing abortion services or referrals for receipt of such services; and(11) Such other activities as the Corporation may prohibit.(b) Individuals may exercise their rights as private citizens and may participate in the activities listed above on their initiative, on non-AmeriCorps time, and using non-Corporation funds. Individuals should not wear the AmeriCorps logo while doing so.67 FR 45359, July 9, 2002. Redesignated at 70 FR 39597, July 8, 2005; 73 FR 53759, Sept. 17, 2008; 74 FR 46506, Sept. 10, 2009