Understand your family's commitment
What the yearly commitment is, why it's counted per family, and where the number comes from — the foundation for everything else in this section.
Many schools ask each family to contribute a set amount of service to the community every year — hours volunteered, events worked, sometimes dollars in place of time. Lumicura’s job is to make that commitment visible and painless to track, for you and for the school.
Your school may call this something else. “Service Hours,” “Share Program,” “Volunteer Credit,” “Family Commitment” — different names, same feature. These docs say “service hours” and “commitment.”
The commitment is per family
Lumicura counts the commitment at the family level, not per parent. Whoever in your family does the volunteering, it lands on the same shared tally. One parent works the auction, the other works concessions — same bucket, and grandparents’ help usually counts too (your school decides who may earn on your family’s behalf).
Where your number comes from
Your school sets the commitment: how much, what counts toward it, and any special cases (discounts for single-parent households, different amounts for new families, and so on). Lumicura displays the target and does the arithmetic — it never decides what you owe.
Split households
If your family’s parents live at two addresses, your school can enable household-level views — and, where the school allows it, split the commitment between households. If this applies to you, ask your school how they’ve set it up.
Watching it through the year
Your family’s balance — target, earned so far, remaining — lives on the commitment dashboard, updated as credit lands. That’s the next article: Check your hours and balance.