Community Service

• 20 hours must be performed. Unless you are in the Specialty Program.

• Service must be completed at a non-profit organization.

• Students can not get paid for their service time.

• Service must be completed outside the normal school hours.

• Chores done at home or in the neighborhood for individuals may not be used to satisfy requirements.

• The work performed must benefit the community.

When a student has completed the required hours of community service, he or she will write a three paragraph (minimum) theme paper of approximately 150 words.  This theme paper will be submitted to the student's counselor for approval.

Suggestions for Developing the Theme Paper

• Paragraph 1 - Describe what type of community service you performed. Tell where you performed your service.

• Paragraph 2 - Tell what you learned from this experience. Tell what a typical day was like for you at the community service site.

• Paragraph 3 - Summarize your community service experience. Comment on the value of your community service experience to your future plans.

Anyone who would like to add a non-profit organization to our list can submit a copy of the group's 501c status documentation to one of the counselors. 

• Local organizations and agencies for which students can perform community service hours include, but are not limited to:

• Adopt-a-Highway

• American Cancer Society, Relay for Life, Kidney Foundation, Cystic Fibrosis, etc.

• Ballet South (community outreach programs)

• The Beach Institute (718-316-0815)

• Beautification projects

• Boy Scout or Girl Scout community service projects

• Church youth group activities such as carnivals, helping the elderly, etc. 

• Club Sponsored non-profit activities such as tutoring

• Department of Leisure Services

• Economic Opportunity Authority

• Fire Department

• First Call for Help

• Frank Callen’s Boys and Girls Club

• Goodwill Industries

• Greenbriar Children’s Center

• Habitat for Humanity

• Hands On Savannah

• Homeless Shelters or Inner-City Night Shelter

• Hope House

• Humane Society

• Island Hospice, THA Group

• Jenkin’s Boys and Girls Club

• Jewish Educational Alliance

• March of Dimes

• Mary's Place (formerly the Rape Crisis Center)

• Memorial Health Teen Programs 

• Museums

• Neighborhood Associations

• Oatland Island, Saturdays, Cane-grinding in November or Sheep to Shawl in March

• Odyssey Hospice

• Open Arms

• Police Department

• Public Library

• Red Cross

• SAFE Shelter

• Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce

• Savannah Association for the Blind

• Savannah Children's Choir

• Savannah Hospice

• Savannah Irish Festival (February) 

• Savannah Rotary Read-In

• Savannah Speech and Hearing

• Savannah Tree Foundation

• Science Centers

• Scottish Games (May) 

• Senior Citizens of Savannah

• Something Special Magazine 

• Summer Camp volunteer

• Second Harvest Food Bank

• Special Olympics

• Union Mission or soup kitchens

• United Way and United Way sponsored agencies

• Various community service agency boards

• Victim’s Witness

• YMCA