Center for Community Engagement
Volunteer
The CCE organizes only one or two service activities a semester so that it can focus on referring volunteers to already existing service opportunities.
- Sign up for Get Connected opportunities and see a list of local organizations. This is a new system and will be growing!
- Find new opportunities daily on CCE's social media - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
- Request a one-on-one service consultation - meet with a student in the CCE office to find opportunities best suited to your specific interests, schedule, and career path. Please indicate if you are faculty or staff and we'll set up time for you to meet with professional staff in our office.
- Get involved with Volunteer USM, a student organization that organizes service opportunities
- Upcoming CCE Events
Service Hour Reporting
All service hour reporting for Greek orgs will switch to Get Connected in the Spring
semester. Until then:
* FSL individual service hour reporting:
https://forms.gle/xch3q1TnPdQurXdeA
* Email FSL group service hours to cceFREEMississippi using this template
* Instructions for FSL groups using Get Connected
All USM students have a profile on Get Connected (email: name@usm.edu) where they can track their service hours. Departments or organizations who track service hours should request a user group so that when students submit service hours they can report them to your organization as well. User groups can be used to analyze your organization's community service as well as sign up for service opportunities as a team, record group service hours, and organize service activities for your group.
Students who need verification of service hours should have volunteer supervisors sign a Volunteer Service Log. Some opportunities on Get Connected will allow verification through the system.
While all reported hours will be forwarded to requested organizations, CCE will only "approve" hours for our records that adhere to certain guidelines.
Request Volunteers
If you are looking for volunteers, please use the Get Connected database to create a profile and post opportunities. Volunteers can sign up for opportunities directly through this service.
Hattiesburg agencies:
https://unitedwaysems.galaxydigital.com/agency/signup/
Gulf coast agencies:
https://gulfcoasthub.galaxydigital.com/agency/signup/
Upcoming Events
Nov. 1 until Nov. 20 from 8 am to 5 pm
CCE Angel Tree
CCE partners with the Salvation Army's Angel Tree program every year to ensure that children from low-income families still receive gifts under the tree for the holidays. Visit CCE’s Office in Hub 104 to see our "Angel" Tree and adopt your own angel, which comes with the first name, age, gender and wish list of a child in need. Bring your unwrapped present back to the CCE office by Nov. 20 so that we can ensure your gift makes it to your child in time for the holidays.
