Become a President's Volunteer Service Award certifying org

[misaugstad]

Brief description of problem/feature

A high school volunteer emailed me this week asking if we are a Certifying Organization for President's Volunteer Service Awards. Becoming a certifying org would incentivize volunteer hours from high school students, which has been a huge contributor to our data collected in Seattle over the past couple years.

The instructions for becoming certified can be found here, but I'll paste the nontrivial requirements below:

• Verify volunteers are U.S. citizens or lawfully admitted permanent U.S. residents.
• Pay the nominal cost of PVSA awards, including shipping. Certifying Organizations may not charge volunteers for the PVSA award and volunteers are not permitted to purchase awards.
• Receive and distribute the awards package to volunteers.
• Take the Certifying Organization e-course once every 12 months.
• Maintain a data bank that provides the capability to retrieve all information upon which an award was based, by individual awardee's name and year of the award, and certify annually to Points of Light that such data bank is being maintained and is current. The Certifying Organization shall maintain, as part of the databank, a checklist for each awardee by name reflecting that each of the required criteria for an award as detailed under "Volunteer Eligibility Criteria" has been met.

On the last point, we have all of the data saved (minus the stuff about the volunteer's age and citizenship status), though we may want to create an easier admin dashboard for ourselves if the program is popular.

[misaugstad]

We just discussed this, and given that only one student has reached out about it thus far, we don't have the time to work on this right now. Definitely open to it in the future if demand grows!