http://www.gmwp.org/vsa
03/04/2013
Bob Harriman (PM 711)
Past VISION 2013/VSA Task Force Chairman
Background
Award Levels
Documenting Service Hours
Guidelines
Hours Reporting Form
Award Recipients as of 10/03/2012
Several Lodges have adopted good programs of service, but these efforts are often carried out by a small fraction of it's members. Though many of our Brethren are involved in community service out of a sheer desire to do what is right, there is not structured incentive program to entice others to contribute their time and energies over the long term.
The VOLUNTARY SERVICE AWARD PROGRAM approved by the Vision 2013 Committee seeks to address this situation by providing the Subordinate Lodge a means to recognize and motivate it's members to get more involved in the lodge programs that each Lodge adopts for itself.
Brother Bob Harriman was appointed as the first chairman of the VSA program and served from 1999 to 2006. In April 2006, Brother Daniel Mata of Jamestown Lodge #281 was appointed the new chairman.
Each Lodge should appoint a VOLUNTEER SERVICE COORDINATOR to help maintain the records necessary for documentation of volunteer service and to educate Lodge members on the specifics of the program. This will relieve the Lodge Secretary of the burden of record keeping. When an individual Brother attains each cumulative 100 hours of service, the Lodge Secretary will submit a record sheet to the VSA coordinator or Vision 2013 Committee Chairman. (An on-line reporting form will be available in the near future--please check back later).
The current VSA coordinator is:
1414 Perimeter Drive
Jamestown, TN 38556.
The current VISION 2013 Coordinator is:
4200 New Hope Meadow Road
Hermitage, TN 37076