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Community Service Categories and
Guidelines
| CIVIC/COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Providing for needy--food banks, thrift shops, transportation, advisory
boards; serving as tour guides/aides to museums, historic districts,
zoos; fundraising; manning telephone "hot lines" for referrals or
counseling; working with Meals on Wheels, Habitat for Humanity, Alpha
Center, Neighborhood Watch, Red Cross, Homeless Shelters, etc.;
registering new voters; walking or running for charity, etc.; walking
dogs at the animal shelter, fostering an animal, etc. HOSPITAL/HOSPICE/PRIVATE: Providing services (including entertainment and gifts) in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, home care programs; counseling victims of cancer, paralysis, stroke, AIDS, etc.; serving on advisory boards; working in any capacity to encourage preventative medicine, healthful living, health care, improvements in medical insurance and benefits, etc. CHURCH RELATED WORK: Conducting Bible study, training union; directing choir; advising youth groups; collecting food and clothing for needy; counseling; visiting shut-ins; maintaining church grounds or cemetery; keeping nursery, etc. PERSONAL HELP TO OTHERS: Providing personal care, transportation, shopping, food, housekeeping, yard maintenance, odd jobs; managing business--banking, bill paying, corresponding, helping with taxes, translating for the deaf or speakers of other languages; guardian ad litem; baby-sitting; "foster" grand parenting. DO NOT COUNT services that would be provided in the normal course of events. ** Count only those hours that are devoted exclusively to the person(s)) being assisted. SCHOOLS: Assisting in office, clinic, sports program, landscaping, grounds and building maintenance; chaperoning on field trips and social events; fundraising; speaking to classes or assemblies; sponsoring or assisting in clubs or extra-curricular activities; serving on boards. ECOLOGY/ENVIRONMENT: Conserving and/or protecting wildlife and/or the environment; participating in bird counts; working in animal shelters or wildlife sanctuaries; conducting educational programs on endangered species (plant an animal), finite resources, good stewardship of the earth; publishing ecological/environmental newsletters, pamphlets, brochures; fundraising; recycling; tree planting; working in community cleanups; "adopting" or assisting in cleaning or landscaping public sites -- medians, rights-of-way, beaches, cemeteries, squares, parks, entrances to subdivisions, etc. DRUG PROGRAMS: Taking programs to schools or other groups; serving as mentor to youth at high risk, in Alcoholics Anonymous, "Stop Smoking" programs; serving on advisory board of drug agency, manning "hot line" for counseling, etc. MISCELLANEOUS: (1) serving in/for jails, prisons, detention homes, police departments--teaching, mentoring, counseling, serving on task force or advisory board; (2) making or building art and/or craft projects for fundraisers--raffles, auctions for scholarships, or direct aid to organizations or individuals, (3) coaching, refereeing, fundraising for community sports leagues; (4) restoring toys and/or clothing for charitable organizations, etc. YOUTH: We have been asked by the AARP--With Our Youth-- to designate and report volunteer hours for youth (church, school, or any of the above areas), These hours will be included in our total community service hours, but will be separated to send to AARP. This is strictly voluntary on your part, but it will help them with their program. |
