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Welcome to the Center! Please click through the menu items below to learn more about our primary strands of service and civic engagement:


Academic Service-Learning	Volunteerism & Engagement	Service Careers & Funding	About the Center & Staff

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Upcoming Events and Service Opportunities

Here are a couple events that are coming up soon on the Center's calendar:

	Colonial Inauguration Check out upcoming Colonial Inauguration events: What's The Deal with the Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service, Center for Civic Engagement CI Open Houses, GW101 Session: Student Engagement and University Services and a Student Organization Fair. Click here to register!
	Weekly Service Opportunities Check out our Weekly Opportunities Site for a list of upcoming events and opportunities to serve! If you or your organization has an announcement to make, let us know with our quick online form.

Community Service Programs

Let us know what you're interested in with this quick survey. We'll get back to you with opportunities that are a good fit for your passions and your schedule.

We are committed to helping you make a difference. Call us at 202.994.5493, e-mail the staff at serve.gwu.edu, or stop by the office! We'd love to meet you!

Click to Learn More About Our Popular Volunteer Programs:

	The Neighbors Project Make a deep and lasting impact in the community. We help facilitate ongoing volunteering between you and one of over 40 non-profit partner organizations.
	Jumpstart 7 of 100 DC elementary school students will graduate from college. Help grow that number and jumpstart an education. This AmeriCorps program trains and places you in teams to serve preschools in low-income areas.
	DC Reads Improve literacy levels in DC schools! Help tutor elementary students so that they can succeed in the classroom and beyond. This is a longer-term commitment. Your tutoring relationship is important.
	Signature Service Events Short on time? Join hundreds of your peers making a huge impact in the city during our events! Great opportunities to volunteer with your organizations.
	Alternative Breaks Go change the world. Go alternative. Serve at domestic & international sites on alcohol and drug-free service trips during academic breaks. Meet awesome people, see new things.

The Public Service Grant Commission

The Public Service Grant Commission encourages innovative, student-led service opportunities by providing the financial means and institutional support to individuals and organizations in GW’s spirit of service.

Thanks to the continued financial support from Student and Academic Support Services and a generous gift by a donor, the Commission is proud to announce $30,000 is available in funds for 2011-2012.

We encourage students to engage in social entrepreneurship in the greater DC community. We are looking for talented, civic minded students who wish to serve the DC area with original innovative ideas and projects.

If you are interested in receiving a grant to express your desire and initiative to help the district, we encourage you to apply next Fall. The spring 2012 deadline has passed. Thank you to everyone who sent in an application - grant recipients will be notified shortly.

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A Variety of Opportunities to Serve

At GW, service is so ubiquitous that students can turn in a variety of directions to find opportunities to serve. President Steven Knapp has identified service as one of the institutional priorities, and the university has been frequently recognized for its devotion to service. Amy Cohen, executive director of the Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service, answers questions about service projects at GW.

Exemplifying Public Service

This past March, the George Washington University announced a new scholarship dedicated to the late Dorothy Height, a leader in both the African American and women’s rights movements. The Dr. Dorothy I. Height Scholarship for Public Service will be given each year to incoming first-year students with financial need and a personal commitment to public service, civil rights, academic excellence and public policy.

GW Alternative Breaks, Spring 2012

This year, more than 200 students served in D.C. as well as seven other communities across the U.S., all as a part of GW's Alternative Breaks program. The trips were organized, funded and driven by students, and staffed by the Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service. GW has offered alternative break trips since 2006 and today they are a major part of the university's overall community service efforts.

The GW Experience

Students

An Incubator for Ideas

GW student entrepreneurs may apply for spots in entrepreneurship incubator.

A Home Away from Home

Twins study medicine and public health at George Washington.

Student Co-Produces New Album

George Washington student José Curbelo helped produce an album of northern Uruguayan music for Smithsonian Folkways.

A Call to Service

GW students traveled to Guatemala, Honduras, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Puerto Rico as part of the fourth annual Alternative Winter Break program.

Faculty

Teaching Campaigning in Cairo

GSPM professors teach practical skills to emerging politicians in Egypt.

South African Youth Perform at GW

Latest collaboration between Professor of Theatre Leslie Jacobson and the Bokamoso Youth Centre premieres Friday.

A Life-Changing Course

Today’s reading by Aryeh Lev Stollman, author of “The Far Euphrates,” is the first of six from visiting artists in this spring’s Jewish Literature Live course.