Track Your Service Hours

As a student at ��APP, we encourage you to keep track of your service hours for a number of reasons. You can use them when applying for scholarships, to stand out against competitors in your job search and as a way to keep up with your service on your resume. You can track your service hours via ��APPHUB.

The Civic Engagement Office provides these guidelines to help you think about and plan your service. Developing an understanding of service is an ongoing process that we engage with as we encounter new questions and situations.

If you would like some additional guidance or have questions about a specific type of service, please contact Civic Engagement at 409-880-7775.

How to Track Service Hours

Service Hour Guidelines

Counts as Service

When reporting your hours, the following activities count as service:

Volunteering supervised by and coordinated with a Community Partner. This may include special event volunteering, coaching, tutoring, mentoring, camp counseling, child care, senior care, fundraising activities, presentations and performances, attendance at board meetings, setting up and taking down events.
Service hours undertaken with a faith based organization, as long as direct service is offered to the general population with no faith requirement. Examples include building houses with Habitat for Humanity, or guiding a church youth group as they work at a soup kitchen open to the public.
Time spent completing required training for a specific volunteer activity. For example, required confidentiality training and orientation or on-boarding with a community partner.
Volunteer firefighters or uncompensated first responders may log ¼ of their shift hours and 100% of their actual time on a response.
Citizenship activities, such as voter registration drives or tutoring for citizenship courses
Providing support services to students with disabilities
Pro bono professional services to non-profit organizations or community residents

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