Community Service Center

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    Ideas into Action. Action into Service.

    promoting social justice and civic engagement via community service and community-based research and learning on a local and global stage

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    Alternative Breaks

    Alternative Breaks are student-initiated and organized trips to domestic and international locations with a variety of social justice themes.

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    Community-based learning and research

    a teaching and learning strategy that integrates community service with instruction and reflection to connect the theoretical realm of the classroom and the practical needs of the community.

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    DC Reads

    an umbrella of collaborative off-campus literacy programs that provide quality tutoring to children in need

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    Freshman Service Experience

    a four-day program built on community service, leadership development, and orientation to American University and Washington, D.C.

One Day Service Events

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The One Day Service Events program is designed give the AU community an opportunity to engage in service throughout DC and its’ surrounding areas for one day.

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Directory of Non-Profits

The Directory of Non-Profit Organizations is by segmented by issue to make the search for opportunities for community engagement easier.

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Eagle Endowment

The Eagle Endowment provides grants to students and student groups interested in turning their ideas into action and their action into service.

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Success Story

CSC MLK Event

Service with a Smile

To celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, each year the Community Service Center takes the day to volunteer around the city. This January, however, Donald Curtis, Operations and Program Coordinator, wanted to try something a little different.

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