Matador Volunteer Service Award

The Matador Involvement Center brings to you the Matador Volunteer Service Award! This program is designed to recognize and honor all CSUN students, faculty, and staff for their outstanding volunteerism and commitment to inspire others to serve our communities. At the end of the academic year, those who will receive the award will be recognized at the annual We Serve Awards banquet. This program has recognized many clubs and organizations at CSUN who have demonstrated hard work and commitment in order to benefit the lives of others. It brings us great pleasure to provide such a special program to acknowledge all of our Matadors who continue to make an impact in our local communities.

Recipients who enroll in the Matador Volunteer Service Award program are eligible to receive a medal pin, a certificate of appreciation, and a letter of recognition signed by the Vice President of Student Affairs, Dr. William Watkins.

Groups that receive the most hours will be given a plaque engraved with the name of their organization.

Individuals that accomplish the most hours out of all clubs and organizations will be recognized with a plaque engraved with their name.

The Matador Volunteer Service Award is presented to those that complete the following requirements:

• All CSUN students wanting to be part of the Matador Volunteer Service Award program, must enroll under a university recognized club/organization. All participating clubs/organizations, must select ONE member as the team leader from that club/organization. For those not part of a club or organization, they will be required to join under Unified We Serve. Each group must have at least five or more group members.
• Team leaders will be required to maintain constant communication with Programs Assistant for Unified We Serve via email.
• Responsibilities of each team leader include the following:
  • Reminding members from your group to submit time logs
  • Receiving updates and approving hours completed by group based on submissions
  • Forwarding potential volunteer opportunities via email to your group members.
• Each member must complete a minimum of 25 hours of service in order to receive this award.
• Each member must complete their hours of service between July 1st - February 28th.
• Each member must completely fill out and upload a Monthly Time Log form for each month through Matasync (How to Submit Monthly Time Logs YouTube video tutorial)
• Service hours must be submitted by their appropriate deadline or they will not be counted towards the Matador Volunteer Service Award

Deadlines

coming soon

Levels of recognition as a club/organization:

Bronze: 200-299 hours

Silver: 300-499 hours

Gold: 500+ hours

Guidelines

Certain activities will not be counted towards the Matador Volunteer Service Award. The list of prohibited activities includes:

Engaging in any type of religious proselytizing.

Providing direct benefit to a for-profit entity.

Participating in activities that pose a significant risk to participants.

Acceptable hours of service include mentorship, education, health promotion, helping the environment, helping with homeless/poverty, public safety.

***Rules and requirements will be sent to you via email after have completing the application and have received approval from UWS Program Assistant***

We Serve Award Summary 2020-2021

Collectively, 87 students contributed 2,641 hours of service!

We Serve Award Summary 2019-2020

Collectively, 94 students contributed 5,000 Hours of service!

We Serve Award Summary 2018-2019

Collectively, 102 students contributed 4,478 Hours of service!