Student Leader Resources

Campus Organizations

Bonners can also utilize campus organizations to help design community projects. Each group on campus can become involved in some kind of service project.

• Create a column for service opportunities
• Profile individual volunteers
• Publish Op-Ed pieces that support and encourage involvement in service
• Use advertisements in the newspaper to recognize individuals and projects
• Advertise upcoming service events through the campus newspaper

Campus Radio/Television:

• Interview students and community leaders
• Create radio programs on projects that get students involved
• Use public service announcements to recruit and educate students about needs and opportunities
  

Student Government:

• Encourage the support of community service organizations with money
• Develop a service project for the student government to undertake

Residential Life:

• Take on a hall service project by working at a daycare center, coaching a team or adopting a nursing home floor
• Train and encourage resident advisers to recruit students for service opportunities
• Appoint residence hall representatives who can recruit and maintain a bulletin board in the building
• Link a residence hall to a community partner (one project per hall)
  

Athletics:

• Solicit the Athletic Department for complimentary tickets to donate to a big sibling program or nursing home
• Create a big sibling program
• Encourage athletics who are injured, cut from the team or not in season to coach sports teams
• Run sports clinics for kids
• Ask athletes to give speeches at the local schools or after school programs
  

Greek Life:

• Encourage fraternities and sororities to sponsor local philanthropy projects
• Encourage fraternities and sororities to get involved in a program on a regular basis
• Ask fraternities and sororities to help setup or support a sports league by providing the coaches
• Ask every fraternity and sorority member to adopt a senior citizen in a nursing home
• Encourage the use of community service projects as part of new member education
  

The Arts:

• Solicit the department for complimentary tickets to donate to a big sibling program or nursing home
• Encourage members to perform in the local community
• Ask members to lead or assist in a community production
• Setup a children’s theater using college students and local youth
• Teach arts class in after school programs for kids or in a community education program for adults
  

Ethnic/Cultural Groups:

• Help coordinate a project that emphasizes ethnic or cultural heritage
• Reach out to campus and community groups to educate people about issues of culture and race

Information adapted from on your mark, GO! get set by Wayne Meisel and Julia Scatliff.