Welcome to the Community Service Office
Stop Hunger Now Pack-A-Thon!
What are you doing Sunday February, 12th from 2:00pm-4:00pm? Come to the Stop Hunger Pack-A-Thon hosted at Arcadia's Dome!
Stop Hunger Now's meal packaging program is a fun, hands-on international volunteer project for everyone that encourages team building and provides the opportunity to have an exponential and sustainable international impact without leaving your home town.
Up Until the start of the Pack-A-Thon individuals will be fundraising money, a minimum of $10 per person, to help achieve the goal of being able to provide 80,000 meals to be packaged at $0.25 a meal!
If interested please fill out THIS REGISTRATION FORM and return it to communityservice@arcadia.edu Feel free to contact with any questions.
For more information on the event, please click here to watch a short video.
Alternative Spring Break Information is Here!
This year, Arcadia Community Service will be traveling to Immokalee, FL for ASB. Immokalee is a city in southern Florida. It is a town made up predominately of migrant workers, many of whom are living impoverished lives and are unable to afford homes, or upkeep for the homes they may have. In Immokalee, volunteers will be working with agencies such as Habitat for Humanity, IHope, and the Guadalupe Center working on home construction for homes both new and old, as well as working with preK children. Worried about the price that some Alternative Spring Break Trips may cost? No need to be! Through Arcadia's Community Service Office, ASB Immokalee will be only $500, with fundraising opportunities available to help with the cost!
If you are interested in coming to ASB, or would just like more information please fill out the INTEREST FORM BEFORE December 16, 2011 and return it to the Community Service office in Dilworth Hall. Printed forms are also available to be picked up from the Office.
18th Annual Empty Bowl Dinner!
The Empty Bowl Dinner was a huge success this year! With ticket sales, donations, and after dinner bowl sales we were able to raise $11,760 . This is the largest amount raised through Empty Bowl since its founding here at Arcadia 18 years ago. After 215 new likes on the Whole Foods Jenkintown page they generously donated $300 towards our cause. Proceeds are being split between Interfaith Hospitality Network and Heifer International.
We would like to thank the community for the wonderful support and help before, during, and after Empty Bowl. Over 3 dozen restaurants donated soup, there were Bowl donations from over 20 locations, and not to forget the Arcadia Clubs, classes, and faculty that helped make this event successful.
Hope to see you next year for the 19th Annual Empty Bowl Dinner on November 12 2012.
Check Out Volunteer Opportunities on SweatMonkey
Sign up for your own student account at SweatMonkey, a new way to check out volunteer opportunities that are going on at Arcadia University. SweatMonkey is also used to track how many community service hours you've put in, all of the details and information you need and much more. More information and instructions.
Arcadia Community Service Receives Presidential Award!
The Corporation for National and Community Service has named Arcadia University to the 2010 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. Selection to the honor roll is recognition from the highest levels of the federal government of Arcadia’s commitment to service and civic engagement on the campus and in the world.
“President Obama has pledged to make service a central cause of his administration and wishes to commemorate the significant role that higher institutions, their students, staff, and faculty play in helping to solve pressing social problems in the nation’s communities,” according to the Honor Roll website.
Each year, beginning with New Student Orientation, Arcadia students, faculty, staff and alumni perform thousands of hours of community service.
Annual projects include:
- America Reads Challenge
- Empty Bowl Benefit Dinner
- Alternative Winter Break Trips
- Alternative Spring Break Trips
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service
- Dr. Seuss Day
- Operation Holiday
- Interfaith Hospitality Network
- Collections
Arcadia also was named to the 2008 and 2009 Honor Roll. The President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, launched in 2006, annually recognizes institutions of higher education for their commitment to and achievement in community service. The President’s Honor Roll increases the public’s awareness of the contributions that colleges and their students make to local communities and the nation as a whole.
New Way to See Volunteer Opportunities:
Coming soon will be Community Services very own Virtual Volunteer Fair. There, potential volunteers will be able to see a virtual rendition of opportunities currently available. This is to help people better aware of the opportunities available more so than just a textual description.
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