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Volunteer Hours

Volunteer hours updated November 12, 2024.

If upon review of the recorded hours you determine that your hours are incorrect please submit a complete record of all your DVCTA volunteer hours to date. Remember that it is each individual volunteer’s responsibility to submit their own hours. There are two ways to submit your hours, either email the submission paper submission form or use the submission link. See detailed instructions below.

New Online Submission Forms!

Record Keeping

Show/event/clinic organizers will be responsible for securing the appropriate volunteers to fill the positions necessary to carry out their activity.

In order for hours to count, the volunteer must be a DVCTA member at the time they worked the hours.

Family members can earn hours for the DVCTA member without being a member themselves.

Hours can be sent to the volunteer coordinator, Megan Gioffre at volunteers@dvcta.org, in one of two ways:

1. Submit via the Volunteers Online Submission Form.
2. The individual volunteer can down load the DVCTA Volunteer Recording Form, fill it out (including signature, and email it (a photo of the form is fine).
3. The event coordinator can email a list of names and hours without the form. Their email address will suffice as a signature. Or submit through Event Coordinators Online Form.

Periodically, a report of volunteer hours will be posted on the DVCTA website so members can track their hours in preparation for year-end volunteer recognition awards.

Please Note:  Volunteer hours are accepted for DVCTA events only.  See DVCTA calendar for all events.

Starting in June 2024 all volunteer hours must be submitted monthly. Hours earned at an event must be submitted within the same month as the event was held. All hours from the beginning of the 2024 membership year must be submitted by 5/31/2024 to be counted.

End of Year Awards

Volunteers will also be eligible to receive end of year awards based on the number of hours each volunteer contributes to the organization within the calendar year by volunteering at DVCTA schooling shows, clinics and other activities.  Awards will be issued as follows:

Service Volunteer – The Distinguished Service Award

Without the “Service Volunteer” the events and activities within the organization would not be possible.  Service Volunteers are those members of DVCTA that go above and beyond the call of duty for a specific project or event.  These volunteers spend countless hours in support of the organization, committed to providing quality programs and activities to the DVCTA membership and upholding the mission statement of the organization.  Service Volunteers often serve on multiple committees, are involved in ongoing projects, and volunteer on a regular basis at various DVCTA activities.  Service Volunteers are eligible for “The Distinguished Service Award”.  The Distinguished Service Award was first presented in 1984 “in appreciation of your dedication to the spirit and ideals of DVCTA and your generous service to the sports of Dressage and Combined Training”.  Each year the board votes to choose the volunteer that the Distinguished Service Award goes to.