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Tracking Service Hours
SVS encourages you to track your service hours during your time at KSU! GivePulse
is the official volunteer portal for KSU, where students can sign up for volunteer
opportunities and track their hours! Before you track your service hours, please read
through our Service Tracking Guidelines to familiarize yourself with what activities
can and cannot be tracked through the system.
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At KSU, the Department of Student Volunteerism & Service defines service as a vital
opportunity that contributes to the common good of the off-campus community. We actively
encourage students to participate in service and discover meaningful ways that their
time can positively impact community organizations and individuals beyond the confines
of our campus. With the significance of service, we aim to foster a sense of purpose
and social responsibility among our student body.
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Types of Service Activities That Can Be Tracked Through GivePulse
- Participation in any service activity posted by KSU or by a community partner who is affiliated with KSU on GivePulse.
- Service completed as a part of a service trip (only hours spent doing service on the trip).
- Time spent doing community service with a faith-based organization, if the services are provided to the public with no faith requirement (i.e., building a home through Habitat for Humanity, assisting at a local food bank, etc.).
- Non-partisan political activities, such as voter registration drives or volunteering for a voting site on election day.
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Types of Service Activities That Cannot Be Tracked Through GivePulse
- Work completed for any KSU department, student organization, or athletic team that does not directly serve a need beyond KSU’s campuses.
Indirect philanthropy or fundraising activities (i.e., tabling to raise money for an organization, walking/running for charity, attending a meeting to plan/organize a fundraising event, etc.).
- Work completed for a for-profit organization that is not an affiliate of KSU on GivePulse.
- Items/Money donated do not equate to service hours.
- These should be logged with the correct impact type. (See Other Forms of Tracking for more information about how to log this type of impact).
- Time spent collecting money or items for donation
- Any work for which is paid (i.e., cash, gift card, etc.) or for which other compensation is received (i.e., course credit, unless the course is designated as a service-learning course).
- Travel time (car, train, airplane, etc.) to and from a service site, sleep on any service trip, or any time spent on an excursion during a service trip.
- Self-improvement experiences, including attending a conference or webinar, shadowing experiences, or professional development.
- Participation in a research project either as a participant (i.e., focus group) or a researcher (i.e., lab assistant).
- Assistance with any partisan political activities.
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Other Forms of Impact Tracking
In addition to tracking service hours, you can also track other forms of impact in GivePulse, such as donated items or money.
To do this, change the type of impact you are making using the drop-down feature on the impact submission form. Then, enter a list of items or the amount of money donated.
Please note when attempting to log an amount of money donated, you will be asked to
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If you have any unanswered questions after reading these guidelines, please feel free
to reach us at ksuserves@kennesaw.edu. A member of our team will reply as soon as possible.
Please Note: This is a living document and may be updated in the future with more information
or examples. We will make sure to provide the most up to date version on our website.
The Department of Student Volunteerism & Service reserves the right to have the final
decision in all impact logs made through GivePulse.
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