Drake recognizes the importance of community involvement and encourages employees to participate in volunteer and service activities. The community service leave benefit allows non-bargaining, non-grant funded staff employees to voluntarily participate, with pay, in community service activities that occur during regularly-scheduled work hours, with manager approval.

Full time staff may receive up to eight hours of paid time to engage in community service leave each fiscal year. Part-time staff, working 20 or more hours per week, may receive up to four hours of paid community service leave each fiscal year.

Volunteer Ideas
• Visit your local school and read to children
• Lend a hand to Habitat for Humanity on Oct. 5
• Provide assistance at your local food bank
• Chaperone a school field trip
• Help at a Special Olympics event
• Ring the bell for Salvation Army
• Serve a meal at a homeless shelter
• Help clean up a park on Earth Day

Employees wishing to provide community service leave must complete a community service leave request form.  For more information, please view the community service leave policy.

Marlene Heuertz, Human Resources