4-H Volunteer Hours
In an effort to track the number of hours given to 4-H by our volunteers, we are asking that every volunteer reports their hours at least on a quarterly basis. We will use this data to show county, state, and federal partners the impact you are making on 4-H programs.
This is done through 4-H Online. You will be reporting your time as a 4-H volunteer leader. This may include one on one meetings with families/members, club meetings, project meetings, phone calls, committee meetings, etc…
Anything you do as a 4-H volunteer leader for the 4-H program.
Once hours have been reported, you log back in and edit the entry. Example, if you want to have all of club meeting hours in one entry, edit the hours in 4HOnline.
Please enter the hours beginning in the current 4-H year and update monthly or quarterly.
All questions, please contact your local county extension office.
Steps to reporting
- Sign into your account in 4-H Online.
- Under your profile, in the menu on the left side of the screen you will see Hours. Click on Hours.
- Click the blue box that says “Add Hours.”
- This appears on the right side of the screen.
- Fill in the information that is asked for in each field.
- Volunteer Date – This can be the specific date of the event (project meetings) or if you are grouping the events (like club meetings), you can choose a date within that quarter to use.
- Project – If you are doing specific project meetings, choose the project that it is.
- If you are doing a workshop on cake decorating, and covering all the units, then you can pick one to put the workshop under. If it is a specific unit you are teaching, use that.
- For club meetings or fair work specifically, you can add hours associated to that under one of those areas (as seen at the top of the box).
- Volunteer Hours – Number of hours for what you’ve done. You can include drive time if it is part of the 4-H event (ex: driving to shooting sports practice, etc.)
- Continuing Education Hours – This is where you would put training hours. This can include shooting sports leader training, county-specific leader trainings, etc.
- Miles Driven – Can put 0 in this. If you want to include miles driven for 4-H purposes, you are welcome to do so. This would be driving from your home to a meeting, to practices, etc.
- Comment – This is where you can identify the event you are reporting hours of volunteer work. It may be a club meeting, chaperoning a conference, etc.