Service-Learning Project Ideas
BUSINESS
- Partner with Community Public Board to build a new library
- Financial Aid Workshops
- Job Fair; unemployment training/counseling
- Assist community members, students and parents complete FAFSA
- Collect donations of professional attire to place in C & S Mission Store
- Technology Training for senior citizens and low-income children
- Providing textbooks for students who cannot afford them
- Set up a clothes closet on campus
CHRISTIAN STUDIES
- Free car wash
- Grocery shopping for the elderly
- Free landscaping
- Work with the Hispanic community to provide them community resources
- Partner with Galilean Home in Casey County
- Partner with Christian Women’s Job Corp
- Disaster relief
- Beautification projects at community park
- Mentor children who’ve lost a parent
- Aid aging individuals in staying in home environment
- Collect blankets for low-income and homeless individuals
- Host party for abused children (build mentoring relationships)
- Partner with God’s Closet in Manchester, KY
- Prom dress ministry
- Sports clinics in community
- Assistance to incarcerated mothers
- Work with prison populations
EDUCATION
- Partner with Community Public Library Board to build new library
- After School Programs
- Organize programs for children in the community
- Collect and donate children’s books to promote literacy
- Raise awareness for teenage suicide and bullying
- Distribute student dictionaries to elementary schools
- Reading to kids
- Partner with Kentucky Christian Academy – fundraising and repair work
- Jumpstart Read for the Record
- TCES Share Fair
- Child Abuse Prevention Month – April
- Partner with Kentucky Self Advocates For Freedom (KYSAFF) – a group to help people with developmental disabilities
HUMAN PERFORMANCE
- Drug education and counseling
- Sports camps for youth programs
- Field days at local schools (build mentoring relationships)
- Fundraiser for cancer research
- Teach sports skills at Kentucky Christian Academy
- Volunteer for local youth sports leagues (referee, coach, fund raise, develop, etc.)
- Beautification projects for local parks
- Community vegetable garden for poor/homeless
- Promote healthy nutrition initiatives
- Health education events
HUMANITIES/MASS. COMMUNICATIONS
- Partner with Community Public Library Board to build new library
- Collect and donate children’s books to promote literacy
- Distribute dictionaries to elementary schools
- Reading programs for children
- Work with Hispanic community to provide needed resources
- After school programs
MUSIC
- After school programs
- Volunteer in nursing homes, providing music entertainment
- Support arts education in schools
- Set up programs for low-income children to learn music
- Organize a music event to raise funds for a non-profit
- Music programs for prisons and homeless shelters, etc.
NATURAL SCIENCE
- Beautification projects
- Research to improve water quality for local population
- Tree planting efforts
- Host a science field trip for schools
- Partner with Taylor County agriculture associations
- Design and manage a landscaping project for someone in need
- Fundraisers for cancer research
- Help improve Clay Hill Memorial Forrest in efforts to make it a community resource
- Environmental Awareness Fair
- Start community vegetable garden to support poor/homeless
- Recycling and other environmental sustainability projects
PRE-NURSING
- Drug education and counseling
- Volunteer in nursing home and hospital settings
- Hospice projects
- Fundraising for cancer research
- Health and Wellness Education Events/Fairs
- Partner with Ronald McDonald House
- Galilean Home
- Community Vegetable garden for poor/homeless
- Help teach healthy nutrition to low-income individuals
- Partner with Kosair Children’s Hospital
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
- Raise awareness for teenage suicide and bullying
- Raise awareness and funds for domestic violence and a domestic violence shelter
- Drug education and counseling
- Assistance to incarcerated mothers
- Mentor prison inmates
- Work on child abuse issues (Child Abuse Prevention Month – April)
- Raise awareness and funds for the prevention of human trafficking
- Partner with Green County Domestic Violence Shelter
- Host party for abused children (develop mentoring relationships)
SOCIAL SCIENCES
- Mental Health Fair in partnership with mental health professionals
- Provide free mental health screenings
- Raise awareness for teenage suicide and bullying
- Engage foster parents in resource improvements
- Train community members to combat destructive behaviors
- Partner with Kentucky Self Advocates For Freedom (KYSAFF) to support people with developmental disabilities
- Mentor children who’ve lost a parent
- Aid elderly population to remain in home rather than move to institutional settings
- Partner with Green County Domestic Violence Shelter
- Mentor victims of child abuse
SOCIAL WORK
- Help feed shut-ins
- Partner with Christian Women’s Job Corp
- Raise awareness and funds for domestic violence and a domestic violence shelter
- Partner with a shelter for at-risk children
- Engage foster parents in resource improvements
- Mentor prison inmates
- Child Abuse Prevention Month – April
- Raise awareness and support to combat human trafficking
- Mentor children who’ve lost a parent
- Aid elderly to stay in home setting rather than have to move to an institutional setting
- Partner with Green County Domestic Violence Shelter
- Mentor victims of child abuse
- Volunteer counseling at homeless shelters
MISCELLANEOUS PROJECTS
- Adopt a highway
- Beautification projects
- Free car wash
- Grocery shopping for the elderly
- Fundraising for Red Cross
- Partner with Crisis Pregnancy Resource Center
- Provide a meal for needy individuals
- Participate in after school programs
- Book Drive
- Feed shut-ins
- Collect items for soldiers overseas
- Provide a lesson at an elementary school on a subject in your area
- Reading to elementary schools
- Partner with Community Food Cooperative, which provides staple items to those in need
- Partner with Boy/Girl Scouts
- Collect food for a food pantry
- Partner with KHO or Green River Ministries
- Support at-risk children
- Partner with Habitat for Humanity
- Set up a job fair for the unemployed in the community
- Fund raiser for cancer research
- Partner with Glendale Children’s Home
- Participate in Greater Campbellsville United’s Diversity Fair
- Partner with Kentucky Homeplace
- Provide Disaster Relief
- Help support disaster preparedness
- Environmental sustainability programs
- Child Abuse Prevention Month – April
- Organize a free yard sale in government housing projects
- Partner with Salvation Army
- Partner with a homeless shelter
- Provide textbooks for those who can’t afford them
- Teach computer skills to elderly and low-income individuals and children
- Organize a community picnic to benefit low-income individuals
- Start community vegetable garden for poor/homeless
- Partner with Habitat for Humanity
- Start a clothes closet
- Support elderly, veterans, and other needy populations