SuffolkImpact

Navigate to the SuffolkImpact website and click login. Select "Single Sign On" and then search for and select "Suffolk University." Enter your single sign on credentials and click login.

From the main SuffolkImpact page, select Explore to view upcoming or open and ongoing volunteer opportunities. Click an event block to learn more about each opportunity.

Ready to commit? Select the blue "register" button to participate.

From the SuffolkImpact page, select "Community Partners" to learn more about the groups that are active in and around Boston. If an organization does not have a lot of information on SuffolkImpact powered by Givepulse, contact their primary administrator or navigate to their organization's website, that should be found on their landing page.

If you signed up directly for an event, your impact will be added automatically when you are marked as attended.

If you completed service hours outside of a SuffolkImpact event, you can add those hours too. Full instructions on adding impacts , tracking and updating impacts, and sharing impacts can be found on the GivePulse support website.

When adding impacts, please make sure it is set to "public" and shared with Suffolk University so we can view the full impact we are having on the community.

Reflection on the platform can be flexible. Default to writing a quick couple of sentences about what you did for service that day, but feel free to connect it to something you are learning in class, something you learned about during your service, or anything else relevant. Other questions and thoughts to consider:

• Describe what you have learned about yourself as a result of your service.
• How does the service-learning experience connect to your long-term goals?
• What new skills have you learned since beginning your service?
• What have you done this week to make a difference?
• What characteristics make a community successful?

Remember, that your reflections will be public to everyone, including your community partner, so please keep them respectful.

1. Log into suffolk.givepulse.com
2. Click “Explore”
3. Click “Groups”
4. Search for your community partner (make sure you are looking in Boston!)
5. Click on your community partner’s profile and click “Join”

In most cases, the person running your community partner's SuffolkImpact powered by Givepulse page will be the one verifying your hours. Unless the project is sponsored by the Center for Community Engagement, then most likely the CCE team will follow up and verify your hours. If you have any issues with GivePulse, please email us.

First, make sure your group does not already exist before getting started. If it does, you may only need to update your administrator if the information listed is out of date. Group pages with basic functionality are free for non-profits and community organizations.

Join us on the platform to share out volunteer internship links, directory information, volunteer opportunities and events by creating an account for your organization and affiliating yourself with Suffolk University.

Add your organization as an affiliate to the SuffolkImpact group, if you have not already added your organization. This allows all of your organizations events to be listed on the main SuffolkImpact volunteer page. Each month we also share updates in our CCE newsletter to highlight upcoming volunteer events in our area. You can also tag us on social media @SuffolkCCE.

Follow the directions on the GivePulse support website to create your event. If you are affiliated with SuffolkImpact, your event will automatically be posted to the SuffolkImpact homepage. Events can be open and ongoing opportunities, one day events, or shifts over the course of multiple days and weeks.

There are two ways to verify impacts.

If you created an event that the student registered for, you can sign them in.

If there was not an associated event and students are reporting the hours to you directly, you must verify their impact to have the hours logged.

SuffolkImpact is your one-stop shop for collaborating with members of your professional network, as it allows you to communicate via message boards, advertise outreach opportunities, and approve and edit submitted projects, events, and opportunities.

SuffolkImpact allows you to monitor the influence of your work through automatic data collection, which means you can use SuffolkImpact to systematically track and evaluate the effectiveness of your outreach efforts.

As a teacher or researcher, you may want to organize a class or workspace where you can track lab meetings, reports, student efforts, class documents, or have an online portal that links to a class you are teaching at a university or in the community. Classes on SuffolkImpact are designed to accommodate multiple types of classes, such as classes with deliverables, placement classes, and/or classes with engaged research. Resources for faculty on how to use the platform can be found on the Givepulse Support page.

If you are a community partner using SuffolkImpact or a member of the Suffolk community (student groups, staff, faculty), you are encouraged to post service opportunities (these are called "events" on SuffolkImpact).

Any opportunity that you post can be seen on the main SuffolkImpact page. This is a great way for students, staff, and faculty to browse and register for your service opportunities.

Instructions can be found for tasks such as:

• Post an event
• Manage users
• Manage events

For additional information and support, please visit Givepulse Support.