Community Service
Hours Required
DC Public Schools requires that students complete the following community service hours based on graduation year.
| Class of 2024: | 50 hours |
| Class of 2025: | 75 hours |
| Class of 2026 and beyond: | 100 hours |
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Community Service Opportunities
| Title | Organization | Description | Eligible Grades | Departments | Have to Apply? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Letter Writing Virtual Event | We Are Artistic | Join us for a letter writing event, where we'll be writing letters using this award-winning, proven tactic to reach potential voters in important upcoming elections. Invite your friends, too and let them know about Vote … | Seniors, Juniors, Sophmores, Freshmen | Yes | |
| Virtual Volunteer Opportunities with We Are Artistic | We Are Artistic | We are looking for virtual volunteers to do tasks like: Designing social media posts. Making press releases. Managing our Threads, Facebook page etc. Uploading stuff to our gallery. Doing outreach and reach out to companies … | Seniors, Juniors, Sophmores, Freshmen | General | Yes |
| Volunteer for Soapstone Cleanup and Redesign | Maya McLaughlin, Senior at Jackson-Reed | Looking for volunteers to support an Eagle Scout project that one of our seniors is planning and coming up in the next few weeks. The Soapstone Restoration project includes an invasive species and garbage removal … | Seniors | General, Science | Yes |
| Little Forest Park-Park Clean Up! | National Park Service | Join National Park Service volunteers on Sunday, September 22nd from 9 AM - 12 PM, pulling invasive weeds in Little Forest Park. Meet at the corner of 28th and Newlands Sts NW. Students can earn … | Seniors, Juniors, Sophmores, Freshmen | General | |
| Murch Fall Fair | Murch Elementary | We are hoping to recruit middle and high school students to help us with our annual Fall Fair. Our Jackson-Reed volunteers were a tremendous help last year! We hope the fair was a fun way … | Seniors, Juniors, Sophmores, Freshmen | ||
| Glen Echo Park Echo Arts Festival | Glen Echo Park | Request for J-R student volunteers & attendees! For student volunteers, please contact Emily Crews: ecrews@glenechopark.org | Seniors, Juniors, Sophmores, Freshmen | General | |
| Card Making Event at Mount Pleasant DC Art All Night | We Are Artistic | Come join us for an iconic night of brightening the lives of kids in hospitals by making cards! It’s free for all ages and all supplies are provided. We are looking for student volunteers to … | Seniors, Juniors, Sophmores, Freshmen | General | Yes |
| Centro Nia | Centro Nia | No active opportunities right now but check back. | Seniors, Juniors, Sophmores, Freshmen | ||
| Title | Organization | Description | Eligible Grades | Departments | Have to Apply? |