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Find Opportunities
Volunteer, serve and connect with verified
local organizations and needs.
STUDENTS MAKING A BIGGER IMPACT
Serve. Compete. Lead. Belong.
Find ways to serve locally, track your service, build skills, rally your team and turn community involvement into something you can be proud of.
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TRACK SERVICE HOURS
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TEAM CHALLENGES
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Track Service Hours
Build a verified record of participation,
service and community involvement.
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Earn Recognition
Work toward badges, milestones,
certificates and community recognition.
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Compete Together
Schools, teams, clubs and classrooms can
rally around shared local challenges.
WHAT COULD A LINK CHALLENGE LOOK LIKE?
Friendly Competition. Real Local Impact.
Challenges can be built around a nonprofit's verified local need and adapted for schools, classrooms, teams and clubs.
EXAMPLE CHALLENGE
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TEAM vs. TEAM
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Baseball vs. Softball
Lonely Sock Donation Drive
Two teams. One local need. Collect new socks for a participating Lake Norman nonprofit and see which team can create the greatest impact.
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EXAMPLE CHALLENGE
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CLASS vs. CLASS
Homeroom Quarter Challenge
Small Change. Big Impact.
Each homeroom supports a local nonprofit during the semester and works together toward a shared classroom impact goal.
Homeroom A
Homeroom B
Homeroom C
YOUR IMPACT CAN GROW WITH YOU
Serve Today. Build Something You Can Show Tomorrow.
LINK can help students connect service, participation, leadership and real local experiences into a record of community impact.
LOG
VERIFY
RECOGNIZE
Track participation through approved LINK group and service pathways.
BADGES + MILESTONES
Celebrate verified participation, leadership and community-impact milestones.
Build friendly competition around real nonprofit needs while recognizing group impact.
SCHOOL vs SCHOOL
TEAM vs TEAM
Students · Schools · Clubs · Teams
Turn Community Service Into Real Experience
Find local opportunities, build leadership skills, organize group projects and create a verified pathway for service, recognition and community impact.
SERVICE · CAREER CONNECTION · REAL-WORLD READINESS
Turn service into experience, relationships and what comes next.
These pathways connect student service, mentoring, career exploration and internship opportunities across Lake Norman.
Free Student Assessment
Discover How You Can Make an Impact Locally
Answer five quick questions to discover a community-impact pathway that fits your interests and the skills you want to build.
LINK Portal Access
Students, Schools, Clubs, Teams & Community Groups
Join an existing LINK group, create a portal for your school or organization, or sign in to manage an approved group.
Individual StudentSign up as a student without a school, team or group code. Complete the required parent or guardian consent if you are under 16.STUDENT SIGN UP →Individual / Community VolunteerStart independently with the adult community assessment, receive nonprofit matches and choose whether to join LINK. No group code needed.START AS AN INDIVIDUAL →
Join an Existing Group
JOIN WITH A GROUP CODE →
Have a LINK group code from your school, club, team, church, youth group or community organization? Join your approved group here.
Create a Group Portal
CREATE / REGISTER GROUP →
Schools, counselors, clubs, athletic teams, youth groups, churches, neighborhoods and community organizations can request a LINK portal.
Existing Group Managers
MANAGER SIGN IN →
Already approved by LINK? Sign in to manage your members, opportunities, service activity, events, media and group profile.
Student information and individual activity remain private. Public recognition appears only when authorized under LINK privacy and participation rules.
Community Leaderboard
Recognize Service Across the Community
The LINK leaderboard is designed to recognize verified service, participation and community-impact milestones without exposing private student information.
Students
Hours, milestones, certificates and recognition.
Schools
Combined participation and verified service impact.
Clubs & Teams
Group projects, drives, events and hours served.
Community Partners
Organizations creating and supporting opportunities.
Student accounts, individual hours and recommendation information
remain private. Only approved public recognition is displayed.
YOUR IDEAS. YOUR PEOPLE. YOUR LOCAL IMPACT.
Build something that matters. Become a LINK Student Ambassador.
Turn a cause you care about into a project you can lead, relationships you can grow and experience you can carry into your future. Bring your school, club, athletic team, neighborhood, church or youth group with you.
1. Discover your fit
Explore your skills, values, interests and experience through the student assessment. Use your nonprofit matches to find a local cause you want to support.
Take the student assessment2. Connect and plan
Choose a nonprofit, confirm its current needs and agree on a useful project. Invite a teacher, coach or group leader to help coordinate your team.
Meet local nonprofits3. Lead a challenge
Organize a service day, supply drive or skills project. Try school versus school, team versus team, neighborhood versus neighborhood or a shared goal. Use the flyers below to invite your people.
Find a current opportunity4. Document your growth
Submit service hours for review, record what you did and reflect on what you learned. Describe your leadership responsibilities and the difference your project made.
Open your personal portalWhat can you work toward?
Reviewed service hours, a record of projects and impact, nonprofit and business relationships, mentors, career exploration and internship opportunities. Demonstrated participation can support recommendation letters, leadership recognition and awards as those opportunities become available. Each opportunity has its own eligibility requirements; registration alone does not award a role, internship or recognition.
Schools and groups: give students a place to lead
Build a shared service goal, appoint student project leaders and work with local nonprofits. Students practice communication, planning, teamwork and follow-through while your school or group creates a lasting connection with the community.
Express Ambassador interestCreate a school or group portalJoin with a group codeManage your group and upload its logo
In the student assessment, choose “Yes” to Ambassador follow-up and tell LINK where you would like to participate. Students under 16 need the required parent or guardian consent.
Your first-project checklist
- Choose your cause and confirm the nonprofit's actual need.
- Agree on an adult contact, project leader, dates and goal.
- Share a flyer and invite people to participate.
- Confirm collection, delivery or volunteer signup instructions.
- Submit completed service hours for review and record your results.
- Reflect: What did you lead? What did you learn? What comes next?
What would you like to build?
Tell us your school or group, causes you care about and what you want to gain: service hours, leadership, internships, new connections or a project of your own.
Send LINK your ideaFlyer ideas to download and share
These are project ideas, not scheduled events. Confirm the receiving nonprofit's needs before starting a challenge. Download an original flyer or add your school, team or group name and logo to a shareable copy.
Schools + Service Partnerships
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School vs. School Challenges
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Clubs Compete for Good
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Teams That Give Back
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Volunteering Leads to Careers
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Service Hours with Purpose
Download original flyerCreate your shareable flyer
The original artwork stays intact. Your name and logo appear in a separate panel beneath it. Your logo stays on this device; to save it to your group profile, use the group portal.