What counts as volunteer hours?
Many things count towards your pledge: All things relating to making initial contact and training with one of more agencies (via email, phone or in person) – this effort counts! You can log your hours in increments of 15 minutes. Travel time – the time it takes you to travel to and from your agency counts toward your volunteer pledge, up to a 1 hour maximum per volunteer activity. All correspondence you have with an agency, reading that you do on your own time to prepare for the role. The golden rule we use is the “Grandma rule” – if you can tell your Grandma what you’re doing to volunteer and she doesn’t wince, it counts! If she winces, it probably doesn’t count.
