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Additional Service Opportunities

For Fellows who would like to make up missed hours (due to illness, getting a late start in the program, or as a result of their site not having enough hours for them), you can earn extra hours by completing pre-approved, short-term service activities.

Guidelines:

  • Additional Service Activities must be pre-approved by GCC College Corps staff
    • GCC College Corps will keep an ongoing list of pre-approved opportunities in our database
    • If you would like to utilize an event not on the pre-approved list, please submit the following to GCC College Corps staff, no later than 5 business days prior to the event:
      • Event location
      • Event date
      • Sponsoring organization
      • Organization website
      • General volunteer duties
      • Sign-up link or flier recruiting volunteers
    • We encourage you to participate in service activities that align with one of our two focus areas: Food Insecurity, and Economic Development, however, we will still consider service performed in other focus areas
    • Normal service restrictions apply: such as not engaging in political actions (i.e. voter registration) or religious activities and counting it as your service hours
    • We will not approve hours for which you receive pay from another organization or credit from another service course
    • If your site has upcoming opportunities for general volunteers, please notify GCC College Corps staff so we can share this opportunity with your peers!
  • Print the Additional Service Log and take it with you to your service activity
    • Complete the form
    • Have an official representing the sponsoring organization verify your service by signing the form
    • Submit the completed form to the GCC College Corps office prior to adding the experience to your timesheet
  • When claiming the hours on your timesheet:
    • List the hours under your campus' name (e.g. *Glendale Community College)
    • Categorize the hours as "Service"
      • In the notes box, please include: "Additional Service Activities" followed by the name of the agency you worked with

Additional Service Log

For question, reach out to the GCC College Corps staff.

 

Training Videos

 


Mighty Networks Code of Conduct for the Fellow Community

Mighty Networks is a virtual community connecting over 3,000 #CaliforniansForAll
College Corps fellows to share ideas, and hopes for a better cohort, state, and society.

We hope you use this space to meet new people, learn from each other, have fun, and
reflect with your peers from across the state. By joining, participating, and contributing
to this virtual community, you are committing to be kind, demonstrate respect, assume
best intentions, and explore a variety of perspectives with curiosity.

Together, we are exploring and creating a platform designed for humanity, community,
and civility. We’ll question one another and ourselves – finding the language and
means to uplift, clarify, challenge, and support one another without alienating, defeating, or dehumanizing our peers.California Volunteers wants to ensure a safe and welcoming space for fellows to share experiences and connect with each other using Mighty Networks.

Please follow the requirements below.

Code of Conduct: The Hard & Fast Rules

  1. This is a community of real people who are part of a shared experience. Be
    respectful by challenging the ideas, not the person.
  2. Keep all content relevant and helpful to the discussion.
  3. Don’t plagiarize content. Sharing from elsewhere is okay but cite the source.
  4. For visual content, be sure everyone in the video/photo has consented.
  5. No threats of any kind, including doxing.
  6.  No hate speech, bullying, or misinformation.
  7. No political campaigning, including fundraising for or against candidates, ballot
    measures, and initiatives.
  8. Posts containing explicit material such as nudity, injury, hate, and violence will be
    removed.
  9. Don’t sell or promote products or services.
  10. No illegal activity of any kind, including content that teaches how to break the
    Terms & Conditions, Privacy Notice of Mighty Networks or your campus’ Honor
    Codes or Rules of Conduct
  11. If content was deleted/removed, it should stay deleted.
  12. Do not post or repost someone else’s personal information or post links to personal information. This includes links to other public social media pages and screenshots of social media pages with the names still legible. Users posting personal info of others are subject to an immediate account suspension.
  13. Please be a responsible member of this community and report any content in violation of these expectations.

Code of Conduct: The Principles

Principles aid strong human judgement. We are building a community together striving for unparalleled commitment to equity, inclusion, and belonging. Using these principles to guide our moral and ethical agreements with one another, we agree to be our best collective selves. As a community, we acknowledge that fallibility is to be human.

Person, First
Please do remember the human. Adhere to the same standards of behavior online
that you follow with friends, in a classroom, at a public park, in the real world. We are
all humans that are going to make mistakes when communicating. Even the most
thought-out words may not across as you intend.

Be Helpful
Listen, learn, and assist your peers. Support others through careful listening,
communication, and response. The strength of our community will come from the
strength of our members building one another up.

Thoughtful & Purposeful Content
Well written and interesting content can be based on quality facts or quality opinion.
We encourage you to be clear with your statements. If you are posting an opinion or
fact, say so. Finally, remember to pause before post to ensure you don’t say
something in the heat of the moment that you might regret.

Civic Dialogue
Each Fellow has a right to their opinions. This space is for critical questions, dialogue,
and debate on the issues, legislation, and policies. This is not a platform to campaign
or fundraise for an elected official, one seeking political office, or for a specific ballot
measure (i.e., Vote for XXX person or Vote for XXX bill). This can and should be a place
for robust discussion that helps bring perspective, facts, and personal experience to
the forefront on a myriad of social, policy and economic issues.

Challenge & Improve Upon the Idea, not the Individual
Think before you type. It’s okay to challenge ideas, but don’t attack an individual for their views. Focus on the merits of the content, not the traits of the person. Seek clarification by asking questions or offering a counter-post with your facts, perspective, or considerations that improve the discussion. It’s okay not to settle every opinion “out loud” or “publicly.” We have all been frustrated by the internet at some point, but knee-jerk contradictions, name calling, and escalation hurts innocent people too often; such posts or comments will be removed.

How California Volunteers Will Communicate Challenges or Concerns with Partner
Campus
Our first responsibility to our community is to ensure your own personal safety and that of
your peers. In situations where mental, emotional, or physical safety are at risk,
California Volunteers will immediately contact your campus program support team so
that assistance can be offered to you immediately.

If the situation continually undermines the intent and spirit of the moderation guidelines,
warnings will be shared first with the fellow(s) involved and secondly with the partner
campus staff after the first “infraction.” A fellow will receive written notification of the
situation; notification will also be sent directly to the campus program team. If a fellow
continually engages in behavior that goes against the Code of Conduct, they will be
removed from the platform and the campus program staff will be notified. Campus
staff will then determine what next steps need to be taken.

California Volunteers reserves the right to escalate situations regarding fellow behavior
that violates the Code of Conduct to the relevant partner campus staff.

Sharing Feedback & Content
Mighty Networks is a vehicle for fellows to routinely provide helpful feedback,
reflections, and ideas in the form of quotes, comments, image uploads, ideas, polling,
emojis and so forth. California Volunteers will aggregate feedback and attribute
content anonymously (unless otherwise requested by the Fellow) to share with
California Volunteers, partner campus, and community host partners.

California Volunteers is committed to indicating clearly which channels or areas of the
Mighty Networks platform are shareable (anonymously or otherwise) to help strengthen
and/or inform program design and decision-making while honoring and strengthening
the trust-building between fellows and California Volunteers.

Contacting the Moderators & Other Logistics
If a post needs moderator attention, click the three dots next to a post and click
“Report.” If an entire profile needs attention (more than just a single post), select the
option to report the person. That will add the post to a queue moderators watch, and
moderators will review promptly. You will be provided an opportunity to tell the
moderators why the post needs attention. If someone or you are in immediate danger,
contact the proper authorities or campus staff for support.

• Report spam
• Please review the document thoroughly before contacting the moderators

Resource Library Documents
Please adhere to the full Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, Fellow Service Agreement,
Program Handbook, College Corps Prohibited & Unallowable Activities.

Source: With content and sample language based on the User Guidelines of Chief
Delphi, WordPress, and Reddit.