Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program
Bunker Hill Community College s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program is one of the largest in the country. Led by John Vacarro, a business faculty member and several hundred business...
View ArticleFaculty as public servant: Grammar school health clinics
Of the three mainstays of scholarship teaching, research, and service service chronically ranks a distant third among faculty priorities. Many faculty consider themselves teachers first, sharing...
View ArticleCenter for Community Economic Development
In diverse cities, community development is best achieved when partners representing that diversity are able to work together. In Boston, the University of Massachusetts Center for Community Economic...
View ArticleProfessional work and social responsibility: a construction technology class...
Students who do not plan to work in the service sector may consider community service a nice diversion, without recognizing its connection to their future work. Service-learning that is tied to...
View Article“”Christmas in April”" project
The city of Valparaiso, Indiana, in conjunction with Valparaiso University has just completed the tenth year of its Christmas in April project. Annually, Christmas in April brings together 300...
View ArticlePolicy Research Action Group: using small teams of faculty and community members
Faculty at the Policy Research Action Group, a center based at Loyola University in Chicago, engage in action research by forming small teams. These teams are made up of at least one representative...
View ArticleThe Student Empowerment Connection: helping others succeed
Kevin Kitrell Ross, a student at Morehouse College, wants to help others succeed as he has. Kevin created the Student Empowerment Connection, a large-scale effort to increase educational opportunities...
View ArticleUsing a journalism class to generate support for a fundraiser
One of the most common types of short-term service events is the fundraiser. But strong fundraising events come out of a deeper relationship than money alone. At Christmas time last year, the...
View ArticleOne-stop training: job development program
For some community members, a lack of basic job skills stands between them and economic opportunity, but knowing where and how to find training may be the biggest obstacle. In Taupin Springs, Florida,...
View ArticleEngagement with a Boys & Girls Club located on campus
Trinity College believes that its liberal arts curriculum and urban location are a powerful combination and provide the basis for distinctive learning opportunities that challenge and inspire students...
View ArticleWorld Hunger course: service in Nicaragua
Dave Harmon, a faculty member at Colorado Mountain College, teaches a course on World Hunger. To help students understand the myriad issues that affect international populations, he takes a group of...
View ArticleJuvenile offenders help on a domestic solar water heating system project
A project at Colorado State University served a variety of audiences providing services for low-income families, and enlisting the help of juvenile offenders who gained a sense of usefulness and...
View ArticleEducation centers for community members on welfare
The knowledge and skills that institutions of higher education provide their students translate into power: the power to be active members of their communities; the power to participate in the...
View ArticleThe Preuss School
The University of California at San Diego doesn’t just help a local school, it owns one. The Preuss School, on the UCSD campus, is the nation’s first charter school created by a university and...
View ArticlePartnership with the Stone Soup Project
With a handful of volunteers and a $50 budget, what was to become “”Stone Soup”" of Fresno, California, started in 1992 with a simple summer recreation program. The goal was to address the many serious...
View ArticleInternships: The Community-Based Learning Project (CBLP)
Teachers who study at Claremont University in California are challenged to think about the lives of the people they serve through the Community-Based Learning Project (CBLP). The CBLP is a broad...
View Article“”Eastside Project”": a community partnership focused on the poor and...
Santa Clara University’s Eastside Project invites its students, through community-based learning opportunities, to learn from the poor, the marginalized, and those struggling against deprivation or...
View ArticleCommunity Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) and Neighborhood Knowledge Los...
The University of California, Los Angeles, has established a Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) which provides assistance to neighborhood residents in the development of free-standing,...
View ArticleHousing and development: the Self-Help Program
The Self-Help Program in Guadalupe, Arizona, is as much about building housing as it is about building relationships. Through the program, student volunteers from Arizona State University work with...
View ArticleEvaporative Cooler Services Project: bringing together needs and resources
From nonprofit organizations, to corporations, to state, federal, and local government, various organizations bring their own unique approaches to solving community problems. By partnering with these...
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