Community Service
Community Service Completion Form
The student is required to engage in voluntary (unpaid) community service hours. The student is encouraged to review the Center for Community Engagement website at service.uark.edu in order to be apprised of volunteer opportunities within the University of Arkansas community. Community Service hours will be accepted from GivePulse, the Volunteer Action Center, and other non-profit organizations in the community. To obtain a community service completion form, please go online to https://accountability.uark.edu/communityservice.php.
The guidelines for completing community service hours are:
If you have any questions, please contact us PRIOR to starting your Community Service hours. We are happy to provide you with clarification.
Community Service Hours must be (unpaid) community service hours at a verifiable community agency or service location such as a Non-profit organization, including animal shelters, food pantries, soup kitchens, local donation centers, faith-based communities, etc...
Community Service hours WILL be accepted from GivePulse, the Volunteer Action Center, and other non-profit organizations in the community.
Work done at for-profit businesses, even unpaid, such as internships and work shadowing or voluntary unpaid work, WILL NOT be accepted.
Hours accrued in exchange for monetary payment WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Hours accrued in exchange for surveys listed on GivePulse or through any other Community Service listing WILL NOT be accepted
Donations of items such as food drives, donations of property to goodwill, or other physical or monetary donations do not count for hours.
Required hours completed as a Registered Student Organization member WILL NOT count for your sanctioned community service hours.
Students will not be permitted to submit community service hours supervised by another university student, immediate family member, or a family friend.