Hour Tracking

Fulfilling the 20-Hour Requirement

EJF credit hours may be earned by volunteering and attending public interest events.

1. You must track all of your hours as you earn them using POINT. Please submit your hours within 7 days of earning them. The deadline is 30 days after the event.

2. Full credit is given for EJFVolunteer Hours. If you volunteer for 5 hours for an EJF event, you earn 5 EJF credit hours, subject to the following rules.

   • Tabling: Volunteers will sit at a table in the lobby of the law school and solicit merch sales, selling tickets, and promoting other fundraising efforts.

     • No more than 5 hours of your minimum 20 can be earned by tabling. Once beyond 20 hours, there is no limit on earning additional tabling hours.

   • SBA Public Interest & Pro Bono Committee members may count up to 5 hours of the volunteering done to organize SBA public interest committee events.

   • Students who volunteer with the law school’s Public Interest and Public Service Law Center (PIPS) can count up to 5 of those volunteer hours.

   • Unless otherwise stated, no EJF credit is awarded for volunteering at non-EJF student org events.

   • At least 12 hours must be earned in the Volunteer Hours category. There is no cap on earning hours for volunteering at EJF-sponsored events.

   • Emailing: Each email sent for EJF counts as .25 hours. Ensure to write who you email for POINT.

     • No more than 7 hours of your minimum 20 can be earned by emailing. Once beyond 20 hours, there is no limit on earning additional emailing hours.

3. Full credit is given for Community Volunteer Hours. You must attend at least 2 events during the academic year. EJF will sponsor multiple opportunities to fulfill the requirement.

   • Volunteering with a local organization without EJF fulfills this requirement. To confirm whether an event will be eligible, email ejfstipends@law.gwu.edu

4. Half credit is given for attendance at EJF and PIPS events.

   • For example: If you attend PIP’s Public Interest Friday for 4 hours, you will receive 2 hours of credit. If you attend EJF’s Race for Equal Justice for 3 hours, you will receive 1.5 hours of credit.

   • There are no limits or caps on hours in this category.

5. Half credit, up to half an hour per event, is given for attendance at non-EJF, non-PIPS educational events. You must attend at least 2 events during the academic year that fit in one of the two categories below. No more than 5 of these hours may count towards the minimum 20 hours. However, once you surpass 20 credit hours, there is no limit on earning additional hours.

   • Attending a substantive non-EJF, non-PIPS public interest event on campus.

     • Eligible events are those that the EJF executive board designates. Additionally, events on the Public Interest and Public Service Law Center’s (PIPS) calendar will count if the event is substantive. To confirm whether an event will be eligible, email ejfstipends@law.gwu.edu.

       • GBMs and primarily social events will not count in this category, but networking events with practitioners will. For example, a happy hour only for students organized by a public interest student org would not count, but attending a practitioner panel organized by a public interest student org would count.

   • Conducting a 20-minute informational interview with a current public interest practitioner. One such 20+ minute interview counts as 1 hour.

Hour Tracking through POINT

Setting up your account

1. Create a volunteer account at https://dash.pointapp.org/sign-up 

2. Set up your profile

3. Download the App

Joining the Organization

4. Select “Join an Organization”

5. Search “GW Equal Justice Foundation”

Tracking Hours

1. Select “Add Hours” in upper left corner of profile homepage

2. Select the GW Equal Justice Foundation as the Organization

3. Fill out all required fields and submit for approval from our VP of Stipends