Mostly Mutts is located about 2 miles from Kennesaw State University, and we love our college student volunteers. Students that are willing to commit to a 3 month weekly assignment can volunteer on shelter shifts at our rescue center. Those that only want to knock out a few hours are able to help at our adoption and community events where extensive training isn't necessary. They are always excited to become involved and bring lots of great energy to our volunteer community. The University works with us to promote our programs and students can track hours that are approved by us through the VKSU (Volunteer KSU) system and use them for community service, scholarship, and class requirements.
We have also begun using their internship program and started a marketing intern during the current semester. We created a position description and requested sophomores or above. Our intern has been a huge help and is hopefully learning useful info that will help him in the future. He earns credit hours for the number of hours worked. 20 hours weekly=6 credit hours. We plan to more fully utilize this program next semester.
A couple of challenges that we have come across are schedule changes with each semester and students leaving to go home during breaks sometimes without notice.
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