Your volunteer time may unlock a gift.

Five steps to explore a grant

1. Find your program. Search your employee portal for “volunteer grants,” “Dollars for Doers,” “volunteer rewards” or “giving.” Ask HR if you cannot find the policy.
2. Check the rules before counting on a grant. Confirm eligible employee groups, qualifying organizations and activities, minimum hours, the earning period, grant limits, and submission deadline. Some programs require a separate grant request after hours are logged.
3. Confirm the recipient. Search for Troop 826 Alumni Association and verify the exact legal name and EIN. Ask whether your particular service qualifies for a grant to the Association. Hours helping another charity may need to be recorded under that charity.
4. Keep an accurate service log. Record the date, organization served, activity, actual volunteer hours, and adult leader or organizer who can verify them.
5. Submit and follow through. Enter eligible hours, attach requested evidence, request or direct the grant as required, and check its status.

What time might count?

Ask your employer about helping run a troop meeting, teaching a skill, serving on a committee, maintaining shared equipment, or helping with a service project. These are examples to check, not a promise of eligibility.

Report your own eligible service. Do not add your child’s hours or another adult’s hours unless the program explicitly permits it. For campouts and other long events, separate active volunteer work from sleep, recreation and excluded time. Check rules for travel, training and paid volunteer time too.

A Scout advancement service record and an employer grant application serve different purposes. Use the employer’s definitions and evidence requirements.

A simple log is enough to get started

• Date and activity
• Organization that benefited
• Start/end time and eligible hours
• Brief description of what you did
• Adult organizer who can confirm the service
• Date submitted and request status

Protect youth privacy: Avoid including Scout names or other children’s personal information in employer submissions when a general activity description will do.

Cannot find the organization?

Ask HR whether you can nominate a nonprofit. If your portal supports nominations, use the Association’s confirmed details and send registration or documentation requests to the troop. An authorized Association representative should handle enrollment and official certifications. A nomination does not guarantee that the organization or your hours qualify. Benevity’s employee help

When the troop can help

Contact us if the program needs the Association’s confirmed EIN, current address, organization documents, or verification of specific service dates and hours. Send the program name, deadline, service log, and exact verification request. Ask HR or platform support about your account, eligible activities, grant amounts, rejected requests, or missing rewards.

A note on taxes: An employer’s grant is not payment to you for your time. The IRS does not allow a charitable deduction for the value of donated time or services. IRS charitable contribution guidance