Community Service
Volunteers are important to the vitality of a community. Whether working with emergency services or a scout troop, in a community clean up campaign or as a nonprofit board member, time and skills donated to others support healthy communities.
And everybody wins! The participant received training in leadership and teambuilding while enjoying a sense of accomplishment and pride in giving back; the community may be able to leverage volunteer efforts with financial support which will expand services; the College becomes a part of the solution to community problems and gains a reputation as a good citizen, while employees “put a face” to the college.
Jackson Community College encourages employees to commit time to volunteerism and provides release time for hourly employees to participate in community service activities.
What activities qualify?
The following types of activities (as well as many others) qualify.
- Direct Service – such as river clean up, tutoring, spending time in a nursing home
- Indirect Service – such as computer data entry, fundraising, food collection, board or committee work for a nonprofit.
- Civic Engagement – advocacy or community organizing, such as beautification, mural painting, or community surveys.
How do I find out about available activities?
- JCC organized activities - several times each year JCC will be organizing community service activities. These events will be publicized on campus, and they are posted on the Community Service calendar on the Human Resources website.
- Community Service Opportunities with area organizations are also provided on the Human Resources website.
- Jackson Nonprofit Support Center – Complete the JNSC Volunteer Application then call the center to learn about volunteer opportunities.
- Schools – your local schools need people to help with reading tutoring and other activities.
- Other – Most nonprofit organizations need volunteer help.
- Full time hourly (ESPA) employees will be granted 32 hours of release time, part time (working 15+ hours per week) will be granted 16 hours of release time for the year (July 1 – June 30).
- Participate in an organized activity, an activity you learn about through the Jackson Nonprofit Support Center or another community activity (advance approval required).
- Hourly employees schedule their community service hours with the approval of their supervisor and report on their absence report/timesheet.
- Salaried employees (full-time faculty and administration) schedule their community service hours around their work commitments and report their community service hours to Human Resources.
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