Service Organizations
Alpha Phi Omega
We are Alpha Phi Omega - nationally, the largest co-ed service fraternity in the country! Our chapter was voted the number one service organization on campus for the 2008-2009 school year!
Alternative Spring Break
Each year, VCU Alternative Spring Break organizes volunteer trips that send more than one hundred VCU students to various sites around the country, amounting to more than 5,000 community service hours each year that address different issues. In addition to providing community service, participants gain applied educational experience and discover their role as global citizens.
Association of Service Leaders
This orgnization is a community service based organization created to provide students and faculty the opportunity to get involved in volunteering with local organizations in the Richmond Community. ASL hosts monthly service events and fundraisers on campus which are open to all members and the VCU community. It is a great way to get involved in service and earn service hours! It also provides its members the opportunity to apply for the President's Volunteer Service Award at the end of the end of the school year.
Best Buddies at VCU
Best Buddies is an organization that strives to create one to one friendships between college students and individuals with intellectual disabilities. Best Buddies is an internationally recognized organization. If you would like more in depth information, check out www. bestbuddies.org or www.bestbuddiesvirginia.org.
Change for Change
Change for Changeis a Focused Inquiry student-run organization at Virginia Commonwealth University. Our mission is to raise money and awareness for causes that are highlighted in the Focused Inquiry curriculum. We fund raise and find ways to spread the word about what we need to do and what we can do to help.
Circle K International
We meet Wednesday @ 7 pm in the VCU Commons, usually. Circle K International (CKI) is the largest collegiate community service, leadership development and friendship organization in the world. With more than 11,000 members in 17 nations, CKI is making a positive impact on the world every day." CKI at VCU is sponsored by the Richmond Kiwanis. We have weekend service projects as well as weekday volunteering opportunities available to our members and general volunteers. For Fall Semester 2009, we will be working with such populations as children, the disabled, animals, elderly, high school students, and medically ill patients. We will also be involved in environmental clean ups, tutoring, and building and painting projects. www.circlek.org
Habitat for Humanity at VCU
We are a student organization focused on building homes for local families, advocating and educating on behalf of the cause of poverty and substandard housing, and executing fund raisers to help the overall cause of Habitat for Humanity International.
Nursing Students Without Borders(NSWB)
The purposes of this organization are to promote health empowerment through education, build networks to access health care resources, and distribute material donations to populations in need, both domestically and internationally, while expanding the perspective of the nursing student and collaborating with community members.
Operation Smile at VCU
Operation Smile is a worldwide children’s medical charity whose network of global volunteers are dedicated to helping improve the health and lives of children and young adults.’ Operation Smile at VCU is a service organization that supports this cause. http://www.operationsmile.org/.
Partnership for Service
This organization encourages VCU students to take part in activities that will foster our ties with the Richmond community by helping people in local shelters, mentoring and tutoring incarcerated juveniles and advising students in Richmond City Public School.
Powerful Beyond Measure
The mission of Powerful Beyond Measure (PBM) is implicit in the organization’s name. Our mission is to equip young people with not only the tools that they will need to excel academically, but also the leadership capabilities necessary to succeed in life. Using the "teach a man to fish" ideology, PBM aims to teach youth that they are capable of being the change that they wish to see. Through our program, we will help to create the leaders that the world is so anxiously awaiting.
Richmond Tap Project
Rotaract
Rotaract is a Rotary-sponsored service club for young men and women ages 18 to 30. Rotaract clubs are either community or university based, and they’re sponsored by a local Rotary club. This makes them true "partners in service" and key members of the family of Rotary.
Sci Kids
Sci Kids was founded with the intention of promoting interest in higher-level math, science, technology and engineering (STEM) concepts among K-12 students at local, underprivileged schools with engaging, hands-on experiments. This student organization aims to enrich K-12 science education with fun supplemental activities and enrich the STEM major's college education with volunteer and leadership experience. It is the goal of this organization to stimulate interest in science and better prepare primary and secondary students, while encouraging science education careers and enhancing university students’ skills for graduate school and professional life.
To Write Love on Her Arms at VCU (TWLOHA-VCU)
is dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for those struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. We exist to inspire, encourage and invest directly into treatment both locally and around the world. By building community we believe TWLOHA-VCU can organize gatherings, cultivate awareness, and create a network that actively raises funds and reaches people with a message of hope and help for those who are hurting.