In accordance with CNCS guidelines, the Pro Bono Legal Corps has developed goals—called "performance measures"—that it intends to meet during each grant term. You should review these performance measures with your supervisor or project director at the beginning of your service to gain context and an orientation to the expectations for your project. CNCS also requires all sites to submit reports—called "progress reports"—during the grant term to demonstrate their progress toward the overall program goals. PBLC host sites submit reports to Equal Justice Works twice per grant year and we aggregate the information to produce an overall PBLC General Progress Report to send to CNCS. The first progress report from host sites is typically due in February.

While it is the project director's responsibility to write and compile progress reports, you will likely be asked to provide him/her with statistics about what your project has accomplished (how many volunteers you've recruited, how many clients you've served, how many trainings/presentations you've done). In preparation for the biannual reporting, we recommend that you track your progress toward meeting each performance measure so that it can be included in the progress report that Equal Justice Works submits to CNCS to demonstrate the PBLC's overall impact on the community. Please talk with your project director about your role in the reporting process. You can assist her/him greatly with the progress reports by submitting whatever materials, reports or data are necessary and by being aware of reporting deadlines, requirements and expectations.

In addition to progress reports, CNCS also requires that members maintain accurate time records. The records must distinguish between time spent performing project work, called "service hours" (developing community education clinics/workshops for volunteers, managing and recruiting volunteers, conducting outreach to law students) and time spent receiving training, called "training hours." In the PBLC, we have determined that an important part of your ongoing development will include opportunities to develop or hone your legal skills by representing clients when possible. The hours you accrue while directly representing clients will be counted as "service hours." If you have questions about how to track or count certain hours, please ask your project director.

Your project director will cover the timekeeping requirements in more detail and will review the timekeeping procedure used at your host site and for the PBLC program.