Community Engagement I

Issued by Husson University

Community engagement involves working with social services or other community-based organizations in support of their mission or mandate. Earners have selected at least one such organization, identified and documented that organization’s mission and/or mandate, and have volunteered ten to twenty hours to that organization in support of its mission and/or mandate. These efforts are documented with a short, descriptive essay that recognizes the value of the recipient’s engagement.

Type Validation
Level Foundational
Time Weeks

Skills

Earning Criteria

Earners identify a social service and/or community-based organization with which to engage, reviewing and documenting that organization’s mission statement or public-facing mandates, communicating with that organization to establish volunteer efforts, fulfilling those efforts, and then document those efforts with a short, descriptive essay that recognizes the value of the recipient’s community engagement efforts to the organization and also to social groups that benefit from the efforts.