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What Is
Community Service?

Please read below for What is "Community Service," and what is not "Community Service." Effective July 5, 2009

Community Service is…

  • volunteering your time for a non-profit enterprise. You must not be getting paid in any way.
  • drive time to/from volunteering. Reasonable driving time can count. Let your conscience be your guide.
  • time spent at Lion’s Heart meetings. Only actual meeting/drive time can count. Do not count time spent socializing before or after the meeting or waiting to be picked up.
  • time spent volunteering for other organizations such as NCL, Boy Scouts or Assisteens but not time spent at meetings for those organizations.
  • extra time spent as a Lion’s Heart officer. These are a one-time, annual hour count (do not add extra time to each meeting):
    • President - 3 hours
    • Vice President – 2 hours
    • Recording Secretary – 5 hours
    • Treasurer/Other – 1 hour
  • time spent helping with Lion’s Heart business and/or the promotion of Lion’s Heart.

Education Hours are…

  • required so that our Members will help any school.
  • time spent helping any school during a student’s ‘free time,’ not class time. (For example, if ASB is regular class, that time does not count, but activities outside of the classroom would count.)
  • tutoring another student at school or home (except during class time and except siblings).
  • building a theater set or a garden at any school.
  • picking up trash and/or school beautification at any school.
  • coaching a sport for a school team (not for an outside team unless it’s for the disabled or disadvantaged).
  • teaching theater at a school (not a camp or outside theater).
  • refereeing or coaching a sport for a school.
  • collecting books for any school or public library.
  • helping a teacher outside of class time with class work (even if that teacher is the Member’s parent).

    • Community Service is not…

  • babysitting.
  • tutoring your sibling.
  • volunteering at or for a "for profit" enterprise.
  • participating in a religious service (alter boy, usher, etc.).
  • hosting a foreign exchange student.
  • playing a sport or cheerleading.
  • performing for your school (unless you are performing at a senior center, community center, etc.).
  • helping with a political cause or candidate, although time spent volunteering at a polling place or voter registration is community service.