Community Service Hours
Naples Classical Academy students are encouraged to meet a minimum of 100 volunteer hours prior to graduation.
Volunteer Hours Key Information
- One-Hundred (100) hours must be documented for the Bright Futures Academic Scholar’s Award
- Seventy-Five (75) hours must be documented for the Bright Futures Medallion Award
- Thirty (30) hours must be documented for the Bright Futures Gold Seal Award
Instructions for Documenting Volunteer/Community Service Hours
The student must:
- Obtain prior approval from his/her school counselor to ensure that the community service site meets the criteria and that the student will receive community service hours for volunteering.
- Volunteer services to a local non-profit community agency that meets the following guidelines:
- All services are of a benevolent nature, unpaid, and not for personal gain
- All services are supervised by an approved adult representative of the agency
- Service does not interrupt a student’s regularly scheduled school day
- Service must be completed by the last term of the student’s senior year
- The site is related to service, humanitarian/caring, community needs and does not involve:
- direct supervision/ownership/operation by a family member
- the presence of illegal substances or unsafe conditions
- the use of students for financial gain
- Obtain documentation of service hours from the site supervisor, on agency letterhead, of student hours, dates of service and service activities.
- Students must record and submit their hours to the Registrar using the form at the bottom of the page. Student Volunteer Logs are available in the registrar office.
- The service hours will be placed on the student’s transcript after an evaluation is completed by the school counselor.
- The following is a list of possible student volunteer opportunities:
- Academic tutoring
- AVOW Hospice
- Bayshore Cultural and Performing Arts
- Beach Clean-up
- Boys and Girls Club
- C’Mon Children’s Museum
- Collier County Museum's
- Collier County Public Library
- Collier Harvest
- Corkscrew Sanctuary
- Goodwill Industries Retail
- Grace Place for Children & Families
- Habitat for Humanity
- Keep Collier Beautiful
- Meals of Hope
- Naples Humane Society
- Naples Philharmonic
- Naples Therapeutic Riding Center
- Naples Zoo
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
- Our Daily Bread
- Parks and Recreation Department
- Rookery Bay Research Reserve
- Soup Kitchen
- St. Matthew's House
- STARbility Foundation
- The Humane Society Naples
- United Way of Collier County