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.

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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

Student Profile: Katie Gale

Literature majors are stereotyped as Shakespeare loving, Thoreau-following people. One student, however; spent her summer on an Alternative Break to Nepal, instead of reading plays and living like a transcendentalist.

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