Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	65.31
Liaison	Amanda Whittingham
Submission Date	Oct. 22, 2024

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Fanshawe College
EN-13: Community Service

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	2.91 / 5.00	Amanda Whittingham Sustainability Coordinator Facilities Operations and Sustainability

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Part 1. Percentage of students participating in community service

Does the institution wish to pursue Part 1 of this credit (student participation in community service)?:

Yes

Total number of students:

37,042

Number of students engaged in community service:

2,567

Percentage of students engaged in community service:

6.93

Part 2. Community service hours per student

Does the institution wish to pursue Part 2 of this credit (community service hours)?:

Yes

Total number of student community service hours contributed annually:

812,498

Number of annual community service hours contributed per student:

21.93

Part 3. Employee community service program

Does the institution have a formal program to support employee volunteering during regular work hours?:

Yes

A brief description of the institution’s program to support employee volunteering:

Every year, a Fanshawe employee is seconded as a United Way Sponsored Employee.

The Sponsored Employee (SE) Program is a full-time seconded position that presents the employee with a unique professional development opportunity to further develop skills in facilitation, training, public speaking, project management, community development and fundraising.
The 16 week, full-time assignment involves working alongside people from many sectors, provides extensive training, and a deeper understanding of the people in the community that United Way serves.
· Fanshawe participates in the UW secondment program every year.
· The opportunity is posted and any full-time employee of Fanshawe College is eligible to apply.
· This involves paying for the salary of an employee seconded on a full-time to assist in fundraising activities from August – December (16 weeks).
· Fanshawe also fundraises in a variety of ways during the campaign and members at Fanshawe manage the program.

Does the institution track the number of employee community service hours contributed through programs it sponsors?:

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Total number of employee community service hours contributed annually through programs sponsored by the institution:

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Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the institution’s community service programs is available:

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Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

- Community service hours were obtained from different schools within Fanshawe where students engage in community service/field practicum/internship as part of their course work and it is a mandatory requirement to finish the course.
Please note- data could not be obtained from all the schools within Fanshawe, these numbers reflect only a small proportion of students.
- The hours populated are the minimum hours students engage in community service from some of the schools within Fanshawe.
Please note, the actual hours would be more than this.