Start a chapter

• You have to be a current student at the school you're starting a chapter for.
• You need a faculty advisor, a teacher, counselor, or staff member willing to be the chapter's named Advisor. They don't run anything day-to-day; they're the accountable adult who co-signs bigger volunteer hour claims and can vouch for the chapter. You can name them in your application, or add them once you're approved.
• You should have a few other students already interested in joining as founding members before you apply, a chapter of one isn't really a chapter yet.

1. Submit the application: your school, its city, and why you want a chapter there. Name your Advisor too if you already have one.
2. Staff/Admin reviews it, expect either an approval, a few follow-up questions, or specific feedback if it's not ready yet.
3. Once approved, you become the chapter's first Chapter Leader.
4. If you didn't name your Advisor in the application, add their name and contact info to the chapter record.
5. Your chapter goes live. Generate your first join code and start recruiting.

• Personally vetting new members before approving them.
• Posting announcements and keeping the chapter feed active and on-topic.
• Reviewing and approving (or rejecting) member-submitted posts, opportunities, guides, courses, and volunteer hour claims.
• Keeping your Advisor in the loop, especially on anything hours-related.
• Running your chapter's join codes, recruiting posters, and public page.
• Onboarding other clubs at your school that want to join under your chapter.
• Representing your chapter at any cross-chapter events or collabs.

The job requires being fair and consistent in moderation, don't play favorites, don't wave through hours for friends that you'd reject from someone else. Chapter Leaders who abuse their approval power lose it.

1. The Chapter Leader generates a 6-character join code and shares it however makes sense, read out at a meeting, printed on a poster, or as a QR code. Member codes don't expire, so a poster on a wall still works in March. You can revoke or regenerate one whenever you want.
2. A student enters the code and writes a line about who they are. That doesn't make them a member. It creates a pending request.
3. The Chapter Leader has to personally review and approve every pending request before that person becomes a real Member.

The code alone can't get a stranger in, you still have to actually know the person you're approving. That's the real safety check; the code just gets them into your approval queue with a sentence attached.

Guest codes are the exception. Those let someone see your chapter without an approval step, so they always carry an expiry date, and you set how long.

• No hours are auto-granted. Every claim gets submitted and reviewed.
• Claims under 3 hours need approval from your Chapter Leader or Club Officer.
• Claims of 3 hours or more also need your Advisor to co-sign, they get a one-click email link, no login required.
• Hours from a collab event with another club are logged and approved like any other claim, by your own chapter's leadership.
• Nobody approves their own hours. A Chapter Leader's own claims go straight to the Advisor, whatever the size, so every hour is signed off by someone other than the person claiming it.

Fabricating hours is serious.Claiming hours for work that didn't happen is the one thing that would make every other student's real, verified hours worthless. It results in the hours being pulled and can mean losing your role or your place in the chapter.