DCPS Student Community Service Guidelines
The District of Columbia was one of the first large urban school districts in the country to include community service as a graduation requirement. The community service requirement aims to equip students with the necessary skills and abilities for career and educational advancement as well as motivate students to take an active role as leaders in their communities.
DC Municipal Regulations require at least 100 hours of volunteer community service in order for students to graduate.
Community service hours must be performed through a 501(c)(3) organization or federal, state, or local agency and be properly documented to count towards the graduation requirement. 501(c)(3) organizations are tax-exempt charitable organizations that apply for and meet requirements set by the Internal Revenue Service. Federal state or local government agencies are any agencies that provide some regulatory service or enforcement and are responsible for the oversight and administration of a specific government function.
Community service hours also appear on the new report card and progress reports (high school only). This feature provides students and parents with up-to-date information regarding the hours that are currently on file at their school.
Download and learn more about volunteering and community service:
- DCPS Community Service Hours Verification Form
- DCPS Community Service Plan Form
- Student Guide to Community Service
- Parent Guide to Community Service
- Student Guide to Selecting Your Service Site
- Rock Your World DC-Serve DC Guide for Students
- DC Global Youth Service Day Planning Guide
Websites to Find Service Opportunities:
- Serve DC -The Mayor's Office on Volunteerism
- Serve.gov-The Corporation for National and Community Service
- Volunteer.gov
- Serve Net
- NeighborGood
Calvin Coolidge High School Career Day
The Calvin Coolidge Alumni Association Inc. (CCAA Inc.) in partnership with Calvin Coolidge Senior High School (CCSHS) is soliciting the participation of Coolidge graduates and other professionals within and outside of the Coolidge community to meet, share pertinent career information and actively engage the Coolidge High School students with information on various career options during our 16th Annual Career Day Fair.
CCAA Inc.'s Career Day's vision is to inform the students of various careers. It allows them to garner practical first-hand knowledge of different careers that can ignite a genuine interest towards a specific career path.
Students and faculty alike are still raving about the tremendous value and positive impact of this Calvin Coolidge High School Alumni (CCHSA) Career Day event that previously occurred for fifteen consecutive years from 1992 until 2007. The Career Day Fairs proved to be both meaningful and worthwhile because of the passion and dedication of both our alumni and partnership volunteers, participants and vendors.
Career Day presenters share their real world transition-to-work experiences that led to their own successful career paths. Additionally, these student-based Career Day sessions are inclusive of the knowledge of some potential pitfalls and some self-discipline strategies that are required for success in any chosen career. In other words, the day includes various wherewithal of how to successfully break into a wide variety of career fields.
While participating, the students' interests, gifts and talents are stimulated enough for some students to begin to act on the processes leading to a chosen career path. Students also have an opportunity to share their ideas and ask questions that elicit a genuine interest in a particular field. Additionally, if the presentation is engaging and informative it provides a win/win environment for capturing the students' interests, while meeting our goal of turning dreams into chosen career realities.
Request for Presenters
Consequently, please consider our invitation to serve as a presenter, as we continue our alumni mission to mentor and serve as positive role models to the students of our alma mater Calvin Coolidge Senior High School. We encourage YOU to become a Career Day volunteer presenter, to share your professional success story with the Coolidge Students. In order to offer a broad spectrum of career options to participating Coolidge students, we are seeking Entrepreneurs, Educators, Legal & Medical professionals, Writers, Government & Corporate Employees, etc.. Additionally, we can all assist by spreading-the-word and inviting our fellow alumni, family, friends, colleagues, former colleagues and community members to VOLUNTEER.
Marking the Career Day Fair
We will happily greet all presenters at 9:15 AM with a continental breakfast and a brief orientation session. If any equipment is needed for a presentation, please make a notation on the CCHSA Presenter form below. Thanks in advance for all persons supporting this effort that can light a candle leading our young high school students to their appointed career destinies!
Career Day Volunteer / Sign up Form
Career Day Listing of Professions
Friends of the Coolidge Garden
The Coolidge High School Alumni is organizing the Friends of the Coolidge Garden, a group dedicated to the maintenance of our new garden and outdoor classroom. If you like to garden, we need your help. If you don't know a weed from a perennial, this is your opportunity to learn how to garden and better know your neighbors and friends. All supplies will be provided. We just need your time. Our partners, the Potomac Chapter, ASLA, landscape architects are putting together an extensive maintenance guide to help the Friends of the Garden provide the care that the garden will need.
If you wish to join the Friends of the Garden, please register by completing the volunteer form below. You do not need to be alumni to join, neighbors and faculty are welcome.
A Spring Clean Up and Plant It Day has been scheduled for Saturday April, 30, 2014 from 9:00am - 3:00pm. Hope you will join us and help make Coolidge High School's new garden a big success.
To become a "Friend of Coolidge Garden" please complete the volunteer form below
Current Board Members: Click below to log into the ChapterNet Administrative Area, where you can manage your contacts, scholarships and website. If you have not signed up as a ChapterNet user, please click the Chapter Contact link above to contact a volunteer administrator and get started.