With more and more schools requiring Community Service Hours (or Service Learning Hours) for graduation, the opportunities to fulfill your hours locally are diminishing. The local non-profit organizations are great if you can fit your hours into their schedule.
Reachout America is now offering you an alternative. Reachout America's Service-Learning is a unique, wonderful, educational and enlightening opportunity not only for individual students to engage activly in and contribute directly to their particular community while earning academic credit/hours toward their graduation requirements, but also for the general public to interact with and participate in the teaching of youth in their neighborhoods. It is a cool concoction of both teaching and learning. It offers community members the chance to take part in the active education of its youth, and it offers the participants seeking the experience of service-learning the chance to identify, address and do something worthwhile about real needs in their own communities. As a fun, hands-on approach to education, service-learning allows students to go out into the real world and embark on a plan of action that will directly improve, enhance and uplift the lives of others, specifically sending special kids to camp. We are a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in Mableton, GA. Our sole purpose for existing is to facilitate sending sick and handicapped children to special needs camp across America. We can accomplish this through the donations we 
receive from caring and concerned people across the America. Many of the children we send to camp wouldn’t have been able to go if not for the generosity of people like you.
“How can I earn my hours by helping Reachout America?” you may be asking. It’s simple. One very rewarding way to earn your service learning hours is to visit with your elderly neighbors, a local retirement community or a children's therapy school and help them find a friend that they can correspond with through our Pen Pal program. Through Reachout America and the help of students and volunteers across this great nation, we hope to bridge the gap of elderly individuals and the youth that also may experiance feelings of loneliness and isolation. Pen Pal correspondence also offers academic benefits. For a child that has learning disabilities or attention problems, exchanging letters with a Pen Pal can spark the motivation to obtain and improve their reading and writing skills. For each elder or special child that you help to enhance their lives by getting started with our Pen Pal program, we will award you with 5 service learning hours. Another way to earn your service learning hours is we are going to enable you to raise funds (through various community-based events) to donate to Reachout America in order to send a special child to camp. In turn, we will award you community service (learning service) hours for your donations. We want to make this as easy as possible for you and for us. Our formula is simple…for every $10 donated toward sending a kid to camp, we will award you 1 learning service hour.
So, if you need 24 hours to graduate high school and choose to earn your hours through Reachout America, simply help 5 elders or special kids in your community find a Pen Pal friend or raise $240 to help a child in your area. Now you’re asking, “How can I raise that much money?” Again, we want to make it easy for you. Visit our Fundraising Ideas page for some easy and fun ways to raise money. Example 1: Organize a cell phone recycling campaign in your neighborhood or at your work. Our recycling center pays between $1 - $60 per phone and also pays the shipping cost. If you collect 30-50 useless cell phones that would otherwise go to the landfill, we will then award you accordingly for your efforts to help the enviroment and your community. Example 2: You have a car wash that earns you $240.00 and you donate that money to Reachout America, we will award you with 24 hours of community service work. And the exciting thing is your hard work is now helping special kid in your area. Always check with your school liaison or school before you begin your community service to ensure it is acceptable.