The Presidential
Award recognizes citizens answering the President’s call to
service. As a Certifying Organization, PMSC certifies eligible AmeriCorps
recipients, verifies service hours, and distributes the award. AmeriCorps
members may earn a minimum level bronze award by providing 100 hours
of service beyond your 300, 900 or 1700-hour obligation. After completing
your contracted amount of hours, track your extra service hours on
a time log and identify these additional hours as presidential award
hours; or submit documentation of your time on letterhead signed by
an official of that agency if you’re volunteering for an organization
unrelated to your service site. You can earn one award per year. To
accrue hours beyond the 100-hour bronze level, tell PMSC, so we do
not order your award until you have reached the desired level.
To participate,
set up a web-based profile in addition to your paper documentation
to track and certify your volunteer hours.
1. Go to www.presidentialserviceawards.gov
2. Click “Track Your Hours.”
3. Create your record of service profile. Make sure you check
the yellow box to indicate that you are over the age of 14.
4. Click “Create My Record Of Service”
5. Under “Profile” tab, use this code under “record
of service key”: CO-QFN-1534T
6. Use “My Service” tab to log in all service hours.
Once you
have reached the desired award level, we will certify your hours and
send for your award. The PMSC places orders once or twice a year,
so there may be a time lapse between completing your hours and receiving
your award.
To promote volunteerism in our communities, we will also certify up
to two volunteers that you recruit to earn the award. These volunteers
should create their own profiles and supply a letter(s) to PMSC from
the organization where they served. Please notify PMSC that these
are volunteers you have recruited so we know they are valid volunteers.
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