Community Service

Get Involved in Your Community

Track Your Service Hours

Whether or not you are volunteering with a local organization or a UNG club, you can track your service hours in UNG Connect.

Choose the opportunity type, either “Experience” or “Event”
If the hours were completed for a UNG Connect registered organization, select which organization you are completing them on behalf of. You must be a member of that organization for them to appear in your drop-down options.
1. If the hours were completed with an organization this is not affiliated with the institution, then fill in the name or the organization.
Enter the total number of service hours you completed.
Choose the date the Service Hours were completed on.
Attaching a photo of you completing your service opportunity is optional. However, it is highly encouraged to attach a photo.
Select the UNG Connect group or fill out the name and email address of the organization contact who can verify the service hours that you are submitting.

Fill out the title of the experience and the role you held in it.
Add a 1-3 sentence description of your service opportunity.
Select one of six “Experience Type” options.
Select the date(s) that the service was completed on. If the service went over multiple days, please select the start and finish dates on the calendar.
“No” should be pre-selected next to the “paid” option. In order for Service Hours to count, it must be an unpaid opportunity.
In the bottom right corner, select the “Save” button.

Volunteer or service-learning experiences with organizations
Service hours done with a faith-based organization as long as direct service is offered to the general population with no faith requirement
Time spent completing required training for a specific volunteer activity
Virtual volunteer opportunities

Any effort for which the student is paid (e.g. cash, gift card, etc.) or receives other significant compensation (e.g. anything of significant monetary value).
Driving time to and from volunteer experiences and travel, leisure, and sleep time on an away service trip.
Shadowing experiences or self-improvement experiences.
Hours for donations or time spent collecting items or donating money to organizations (this includes blood donations)
Time spent in general student club or organization activities, fundraisers for the student organization, and meetings. Specify all activities not related to the volunteer experience.

*Not everything you submit will be approved. Approval is subject to the Office of Student Involvement.