Become a Benefit Advocate

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DC Clean Energy is a nonprofit advocate for sustainability grants and benefits available to renters and owners of all incomes in the District, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and West Virginia.   We have several contracts to promote, submit and fulfill application tasks and enrollment criteria for each subsidized benefit.  

The initial steps associated with new relationships, start with verifying and submission of initial W9 tax documents which can be accomplished at: Replay-life.org and click Participate.  You will be prompted by email to verify your identity and will need to submit a valid id and social security card image over email.  

You will be paid as an Independent Contractor by our non-profit or the benefit utility provider directly on Fridays each week via Varo, Venmo, Cashapp or Payquick directly. 

The standard income application incentive is $30.00 per enrollment and the LMI Testament of Proof Application incentive is $130.00.  In addition, the state benefit utility provider will contribute a monthly band usage residual for every application to be paid the third or final week of the month.  

In addition, they have invested 3 million dollars in performance incentives and the Governor has greenlighted more than  100 million dollars towards helping the middle class and low to middle class obtain financial utility relief through this state program with just a copy of a utility bill. 

The Maryland Solar Credits benefit program is available to the first 250,000 residents who apply.

Renters and owners. 

All incomes. 

It deducts 10% off the utility bill for 300 months for all incomes. 

15% off the utility bill directly for 300 months for LMI Testament of Proof applications. 

 

Entire 3 pages of utility bill required in file format or all pages of the bill photographed clearly and emailed to you.

Email address, mobile phone and birthdate to verify the applicant. The applicant must verify via text message or email once the application is submitted or it is not valid.  This will immediately notify you over email.

Once you submit your personal information on Replay-life.org, our Director George Schiaffino will contact you to interview you via phone.  If you want to introduce yourself or send any correspondence, you may do so directly at: Partner@dccleanenergy.org and his direct number is 443.807.3245.  

After the teleinterview, we will schedule an in-person interview typically within 24 hours at 1255 Union Street NE, Washington DC 20002.  We will meet you in the lobby to walk you through Security and parking is free on the street for several blocks and paid garages surround the building.  We ask that you dress comfortably but professionally.  

Please email back George Schiaffino at: Partner@dccleanenergy.org  to verify a few pieces of information. 

We ask that you provide us with one Professional Reference to verify previous work and ask you to include a Personal Reference. Include names and phone numbers and email addresses for each reference in your email and please answer the following questions over email:

1. Do you have any experience in Customer Service or advocacy jobs?
2. Do you have reliable transportation or are capable of navigating public transportation to effectively execute live enrollment opportunities?
3. Do you have any previous legal scenarios that might negatively effect a state certification credential?
4. Do you work well with others and have the ability to manage others?
5. Do you have a well organized schedule and are you accountable to making yourself available to devote time to job tasks without micromanagement?
6. What motivates you to become a Benefit Advocate and why?

We are eager to get you involved and our goal is to provide you with higher wages in a shorter work schedule, advocating for sustainability benefits within your own community. 

Ideally, service to others promotes occupational purpose. This job rewards you for helping others apply for benefits that they might not otherwise have been able to apply for successfully. With you as a guide, applicants embrace clean energy practices and financial utility relief in a cost of living crisis!  

After the introduction, W9 and live interview, we ask that you participate in the Maryland Solar Credits Benefit onboarding training at https://replay-life.org/bootcamp/ 

Save this to your homescreen to access important documents, media, communications templates and best practices.  This is your road map to your success as a Benefit Advocate and our certification process.   It is your responsibility to download Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Slideshow, Google Calendar and Google Meet from the Playstore and all apps are free.  

In addition, we use Calendly and Google Maps and Google Earth for the District PowerPlant Grant.

For the Maryland Solar Credits Benefit Program we also use Zoom and Whatsapp for meetings and presentations.  

This is about making good use of the virtual tools Applicants and Partners have come accustomed to using.  

By saving necessary information, editing the information to include your own contact info for virtual enrollments and Applicant communication, then sending the Google Docs editable templates available to you. When you include a time and destination for your potential enrollment Applicant, you will be modeling yourself with a standard that has been approved and will increase your performance dramatically.  Benefit Advocates who edit the documents to include potential Applicant information and share this material with a Google Calendar and Meet invite, often outperform other individuals who do not apply these mediums. 

Many Applicants will not take the time to research and enroll in utility benefits that they qualify for, yet they complain about the expense of higher rates and want the relief.  

We have discovered that if you meet an Applicant halfway and make this process as simple as sharing a utility bill and contact information, they will make the time to participate in the benefit. 

This method applies for partnership relationships like churches, apartments, and live enrollment opportunities.  

After downloading Google Calendar and Google Meet.  Set up a corporate email address you will use to communicate with others that uses Gmail.  It will also be the email that links to your state credentials, enrollment platform, updates for enrollment success, finances and forward corporate emails.  If you share a Calendar Invite every time you make a call, then you will have greater financial success in this opportunity.  You will add your own Meet invite to your email and document templates.  The Benefit Advocates who adopt this standard and use it see an average of $400 more per week than those who do not apply free contact organization and scheduling apps. If you share a Calendar and Meet date to the email address of every potential Applicant or live enrollment opportunity after making an initial introduction call, you will see a 40% increase in performance and therefore see the financial impact through enrollment success, which equals $400 more per week on average.

To get you started, we offer a $100.00 introduction enrollment incentive to send over a copy of a utility bill and have the Applicant submit a LMI Testament of Proof.  The Applicant must choose the 15% option on the Mdsolarcredits.org/enroll platform and ask that the Applicant chooses George Schiaffino as their Benefit Advocate. 

They will submit a copy of their LMI Testament of Proof as a form of virtual proof on the platform when prompted, save that virtual proof and upload that proof when applicable.  

We offer these same documents in a printed version, but the idea is to get you in the habit of using turnkey, online, easy to use forms of communication.

This is a great way to demo the enrollment platform with an Applicant over Meet or share the platform with others to better educate others on benefit enrollment criteria.  

You may also share the state’s benefit utility provider enrollment credentials directly to an Applicant who qualifies for the 15% utility deduction by saving this to your homescreen and sharing it over text or email to an Applicant over Meet.  You have the ability to include us on your first demo enrollment meeting and we will oversee and execute the enrollment for you and credit you with the $100 incentive. 

The second training incentive is downloading and saving a copy of the Maryland Solar Credits Warm Applicant & Partners List on Google Sheets.  Once you download and save a copy for yourself, enter in 5 potential contacts for each of the 10 categories available.   This process demands you document basic contact information for every potential Applicant, Partner or even other Benefit Advocates who might participate as a member of your team.  Include all relevant contact info and take a note. Use Google to research contact info and generate phone numbers.  Make calls to verify numbers, generate mobile numbers, email addresses and further contact information.  Once you make an initial call, verify who is the best contact to enter into your Warm Applicant list, document the contact information and save it, you will immediately choose an email or text template and media card to share the benefit with others or ask a partner to allow you to serve their own community through live enrollment and offer the benefit directly at a Meet and Greet, Special Event, Public Relations event, after church or work enrollment session or schedule a table at a high volume apartment complex or resource opportunity.   Once you share the media and editable email or text message template, you will also inform the contact about a new destination over Calendar and Meet and share that Invite with them.  We also have a Whatsapp Group to help others access the benefit presentation. When you follow up with initial calls and emails with a time and place for you to get an update on the Applicant’s status, or answer questions, or give the Applicant a short window to download a bill, you will see a much greater success rate in enrollments and live enrollment opportunities. 

Once you include 50 total contacts on your Warm Applicant list, you will share the updated document with George Schiaffino at partner@dccleanenergy.org

This second training incentive is worth $100.00 when completed.  This is the greatest road map to your success as a Benefit Advocate in awareness and helping others access this benefit.  It is how you build a network in your local community.   Choose one zip code in Maryland that uses Pepco, Potomac Edison or BGE or Delmarva, and add the contact information to your Warm Applicant list.  You will find out that many people need access to this benefit and desperately desire to get involved to help others access this resource.

Once you complete the first paid training incentives, we will pay for your $150.00 background check and state certification. 

You will need to be present on a call with George Schiaffino to put you into the state benefit utility provider dashboard. 

You must submit a valid email address and mobile phone number with cellular data to remain in compliance with the District and Maryland Public Service Commission.  

You will be sent two sets of verification codes to both email and your mobile phone number over text and  you will have to dictate back those 6 digit numbers to George Schiaffino in order to complete your certification application.  

Once we submit the application for your credentials, you will immediately be sent an email onboarding link for your state benefit utility provider dashboard.  You will have access by entering your email address and state utility provider password to access the dashboard.  

In addition to email and password, you will also be given a state utility provider username (which will need to be entered the next time you login to your dashboard) and ID for future correspondence with the utility provider.  Please document all necessary information. 

Most Benefit Advocates choose a username that compliments your role serving our nonprofit or the state. 

For example:  MdUtilitybenefits is a great Username.  You can also set up a gmail address that will act as your job email: mdutilitybenefits@gmail.com.  

We will also link your DC Clean Energy corporate email for forwards to this Gmail email address.  You can adjust your Gmail settings to send or compose emails From your corporate email address while using your Gmail.

Once you access your dashboard, please submit  the Background Check, on the bottom right of dashboard.  

If you have any technical problems or want to verify background status, you can contact: 

EASUPPORT@THINKENERGY.PLUS

They will correspond with your over message thread until the request has been completed. 

After you submit your background check on the bottom right, George Schiaffino will walk you through the state certification test for each state and you will need to devote an hour or so to pass your compliance tests.  

Most Benefit Advocates are approved to submit applications within 72 hours and your credentials will be linked to: Mdsolarcredits.org/enroll

As a nonprofit, we do not promote traditional, deregulated commercial utility acquisitions unless it is absolutely beneficial to the consumer and easy to obtain.  

It is important for you to understand that DC Clean Energy represents state and federal programs and our role is to educate and enroll applicants for sustainability grants and state utility benefits. 

Think Energy supplies the sustainable supply source electricity into the utility provider’s grid and the utility provider uses this clean supply source of electricity to power the applicant’s home. 

The state of Maryland, through this benefit, rewards the applicant for choosing a cleaner, sustainable supply source and deducts credits  off their provider’s utility bill directly in the form of actual savings every month.  

The Governor has invested millions of state dollars into this sustainability program and deducted savings credits are subsidized by the state of Maryland and ultimately the federal government. 

Governor Wes Moore is piloting this new benefit as a platform for reelection and the driving force behind this state benefit. 

The Maryland Solar Credits benefit program is available to renters and owners of all incomes and the first 250,000 applicants will be rewarded the benefit-which is 12% of the state. 

Once the application has been submitted successfully over our virtual application platform, it is up the state benefit utility provider, Think Energy and the participating grid utility provider (BGE, PEPCO, Potomac Edison or Delmarva) to verify LMI Testament of Proof, utility bills and standard application enrollments. 

When enrolling an applicant, you may not use your own email address to confirm applications or your mobile phone for text message confirmation.  You may submit signed LMI Testament of Proof for the applicant if the applicant signed that document and forwarded to you with the utility bill or it was filled out and signed in person.

For the Washington DC Autosave program available to renters and owners who use more than 3000 kilowatts per year, please use your direct Think Energy credentials to enroll applicants in this benefit that is available to all incomes, requires a copy of a utility bill, birthdate, last 4 digits of social security number, email and mobile number. You will save your credentials directly on your homescreen to share the Autosave enrollment platform directly on your device and share it with Applicants in Washington DC to bring up the Zipcode Page for Think Energy.  It is always: 

get.thinkenergy.com/(your username)

Example: if your Username is MDUtiltybenefit it would be: get.thinkenergy.com/MDUtilitybenefit 

DC Autosave passed through the Public Service Commission in November and is the only program that gaurentees you will always pay the lowest rate on supply source (kilowatts) and rewards responsible, smart utility users who use energy wisely, with lower Capacity Tags (delivery).  Because the District of Columbia and Pepco have a huge supply and demand problem with all the people using energy for cars, phones, computers etc., this rewards good usage behavior with lower delivery charges. Delivery is roughly 40% of every monthly utility bill. This legislation is only available in 5 states and Washington DC. and Delaware.  

The Autosave enrollment incentive for all Applicants is $70.00 per enrollment when the by confirms the enrollment over text or email. It includes monthly band residuals on usuage as long as the Applicant has their utility account. 

Most Benefit Advocates are certified and able to enroll applicants within 72 hours.  You can check your status on your Think Energy dashboard or send yourself your credentials, enter a zipcode and verify that a Signup option is available. 

You will be asked to set up a Zoom and Whats App. and participate in a weekly call with Think Energy on Monday morning at 830am and DC Clean Energy on Friday at 10am.

Monday 830am Zoom meeting on Google Meet:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85392059079?pwd=Q6TWubNoOYjebMLfNFMEo7kbDCcEbt.1

Friday 10:00am Whatsapp team meeting:

https://chat.whatsapp.com/BgYC8TBVcse6eRRXPPWhPl

We offer live training Tuesday through Thursday from 2pm to 5pm weekly at the office.  All certified Benefit Advocates must execute office training and field training. 

In addition, you must make yourself available to participate during the hours of 9am to 1pm, weekdays, in building your Warm Applicant list and scheduling live enrollment opportunities and benefit presentations that yield volume enrollment opportunities. 

We execute Metro Station live enrollment and public relations dates Tuesday through Thursday weekly from 3pm to 7pm if applicable. 

We execute partner live enrollment events on applicable dates and times at strategic partner locations. 

OurOn a daily basis, we utilize the Maryland Solar Credits Benefit Program media cards as enrollment invites. This is a form of buzz marketing and benefit education and it is necessary to Invite (3) Maryland residents throughout your day.  You will Invite 21 Maryland residents throughout using your Maryland Solar Credits media cards and you will be issued 21 media cards per week.  You will have a small area on the back of each card to document your name, corporate email and phone number.

On a daily basis, we share a Virtual Maryland Solar Credits Benefit Program media card with your custom contact information to you that needs to be saved.  You will share a copy of this Virtual card with every potential Applicant and Partner over text or email for the initial 50 Warm Applicant contacts and a minimum of (3) new contacts per day, totaling 21 new contacts per week.  

By using this formula and including a minimum of (3) live enrollment dates per week in your enrollment schedule, you ideally will execute a minimum of (9) LMI Applications per week, which will generate you more than $1200.00 per week as an enrollment performance standard. 

This concludes your introduction. We look forward to collaborating with you to serve our community!!