Although your volunteering with us may be required, your help will be appreciated! Please clear your volunteering with us before you start. Otherwise, we may not be able to certify it. We do not want you to waste your time or run too close to your completion deadline. Of course, we also want to make sure that your efforts are of real value to the End Poverty Campaign or other public service work we do. A summary of our work. We may accept work done outside our NYC offices, when what is accomplished matches the amount of time you report. We need you to report this periodically, so we can make sure we're on target. We strongly recommend that you confirm in advance that remote volunteering is acceptable in your program. Not all of our activities can be done from outside our office. If in doubt, please ask us. ID and timesheets We provide time sheets to keep track of required hours and also will cooperate with any reasonable paperwork required. Hearts & Minds does not charge any fees for accepting community service. School-required
Court-ordered Please note: We need to know in advance if your volunteering is court ordered. If we are not aware of this, when asked to certify volunteer hours completed, we generally add to the letter, "This is not for court-ordered community service." In most cases, Hearts & Minds is not able to work with those who have been accused or convicted of violent crimes, threats of violence, illegal weapons possession, most felonies, or any theft. We require all court ordered community service volunteers to sign an affirmation that they were never convicted and have no pending charges for any of these crimes. We recognize this may create difficulties for some accused individuals, but our office is in a building used by many children, including nursery school ages, and we accept volunteers as young as 14 years old. Also, both us and others in this building have had thefts. We feel we have to limit what kind of volunteers we accept. If you have difficulty finding a place to do community service, please ask the court for additional ways you can find a placement. We will try to help you find a place, even if we feel we cannot accept your volunteering with us. Hearts & Minds always reserves the right not to accept or to discontinue working with any volunteer. If you discontinue with us, we still certify whatever hours you completed in good faith. If you make false statements or are caught doing anything harmful here, we may report this to the authorities who deal with your case. All court fees, fines and administration charges are your responsibility. Due to our limited budget, we do not pay any transportation expenses. Before you begin court-ordered community service with us, we need to see the original
and keep a copy of
official document(s) that clearly explain the reason for your service, specifying what
the original charge/offense was and the decision of the court.
This information will be kept confidential. If the court documents do not
clearly explain the alleged offense, we ask for permission to call the
authorities or require you to get a letter from
your lawyer. We can accept an email for this purpose, but even an email must include the lawyer's full name, title, name of his firm
and publicly listed phone number and address for his legal practice. This
email should be sent directly to our president at: greatchange at*
gmail.com Thank you for your interest in helping our public service work.
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