Volunteer Levels - ROY-G-BIV

Volunteer Accumulated Hours Color Coding for nametags/shirts.

We follow a ROYGBIV Color Coding for volunteer hours completed.
We have a number of methods of thanking them, and also a form of recognition between volunteers using our color coding system based on total volunteer hours given. These hours do not usually count self-study time, but do include training sessions, give-back to the community hours, and other relevant group activities. We then award a color code in honor of both the Paranoia RPG and the sci-fi series Star Trek: ROYGBIV.

We started out with actual shirts, and still appreciate those who wear shirts of the appropriate color, but it was too expensive a prospect to keep providing the shirts (did not use donor money, instead our founder provided the shirts with his own funds), so while people are encouraged to wear a shirt appropriate to their hours ranking, there wasn't actually ever any hard and fast requirement.

We experimented with sashes, and different badges, but those were never quite right.
Now we just indicate by the background color of their RPG Research badge.
All on-boarded volunteers start out as "Red shirts". :-) Then progress along the visible light spectrum of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, & Violet. Our founder is technically "Ultraviolet" so he sometimes during Paranoia RPG sessions will wear white under a black light for that effect. :-)
Here are the hours ranked by colors (ROY-G-BIV)