Audit of Peace Corps/50th Anniversary Program

We recommend that the Office of the Director retain documentation of the events, including cost information, to use when planning future recruiting and awareness campaigns.

We recommend that the Peace Corps Director establish the agency’s strategy on fundraising. If the Director decides to include the use of fundraising and donations in the agency's operations, then develop appropriate goals and provide the necessary resources, such as staffing and a customer relations database, needed to accomplish the goals.

We recommend that Office of Gifts and Grants Management incorporate fundraising standard operating procedures into the Peace Corps Manual to retain the fundraising tools and strategy developed by the contractor for use in future fundraising endeavors.

We recommend that the Office of the Chief Financial Officer establish and enforce formal guidelines and strengthen training procedures to ensure that all disbursements are allocated to appropriate object class codes. When issuing expenditure guidance for special events, management should also include guidance on how to properly code unfamiliar or seldom-used transactions.

We recommend that the Office of the Chief Financial Officer develop a process to monitor representation expenses to ensure expenses are properly coded and that the overseas posts are in compliance with Peace Corps policies.