Student Led Service
Fraternities and Sororities
ADPi: Ronald McDonald House
By creating, finding and supporting programs that directly improve the health and well being of children, Ronald McDonald House Charities is working to better the lives of children and their families around the world.
KAO: CASA; (Local Chapter)
CASA is for Court Appointed Special Advocates. Concerned over making decisions about abused and neglected children's lives without sufficient information, a Seattle judge conceived the idea of using trained community volunteers to speak for the best interests of these children in court. So successful was this Seattle program that soon judges across the country began utilizing citizen advocates. In 1990, the U.S. Congress encouraged the expansion of CASA with passage of the Victims of Child Abuse Act. Today more than 900 CASA programs are in operation, with 70,000 women and men serving as CASA volunteers. CASA is an acronym for Court Appointed Special Advocate.
Gamma Phi Beta: Camp Fire USA
Camp Fire USA is one of the nation's leading not-for-profit youth development organizations, currently serving nearly 750,000 children and youth annually. Founded in 1910, Camp Fire USA's outcome-based programs include youth leadership, self-reliance, after school groups, camping and environmental education and child care.
Serving youth from birth to 21, Camp Fire USA helps boys and girls learn - and play - side by side in comfortable, informal settings.
Kappa Kappa Gamma: Women Helping Women
Our mission is to provide business apparel, image consulting and employment search support to aid low-income women in attaining and sustaining employment. Through our donors, volunteers and staff, we provide a positive and supportive environment for Orange County women in transition.
Associated Students Community Service
This part of the Associated Students body plans and leds numerous Community Service events and programs for the USD Undergraduate Students.
Residence Life Programs
Residence Life on campus helps promote Community Service and Volunteer work through many programs that the Resident Assistants and Directors promote and require for their residents to take part in. Some of the programs that have annually taken place are: Race for the Cure, Interfaith Shelter, AIDS Walk, Canned Food Drives, and the Manchester Vilklage Yearly Service projects.
Women's Center
As a part of the Women's Center program, the Center plans and promotes events that benefit the local women, children, and families of the San Diego area. These are some of the events that the Women's Center has done:
- Womenade
Every Fall and Spring, there is a pot luck dinner for women to bring a dish to pass along with a $10 donation. All the proceeds from this event go to Rachel's Hope project, after abortion healing and reconciliation for Catholic Women.
- Hopeline
This is an annual cell phone drive. The Hopeline drive uses wireless services and donated cell phones to assist victims in emergency domestic violence situations.
- Habitat for Humanity
- Women's Bean Project
At periodic times during the semester, the Women's Center has the products made by the Women's Bean Project on sale in the Center.
- Denim Day
Susan Komen Breast Cancer Research Foundation
- Thanksgiving Socks
Thanksgiving socks drive is where socks are given out to individuals and then returned filled with toiletries which are in turn given out to the local homeless shelters around San Diego .
Mortar Board, Inc. is a national honor society that recognizes college seniors for distinguished ability and achievement in scholarship, leadership, and service. Mortar Board is a unique student organization because it is a group comprised of leaders in the USD student community who come together during their senior year as the Mortar Board chapter. Within this group of leaders, there is ample leadership opportunity for members who serve as officers and committee chairs. All members are required to attend biweekly meetings and participate in committees and special projects.
The Alcala Club is a service organization of men and women who work with the president of the University of San Diego as official representatives of the university. They act as the liaisons between the USD community and the various guests who visit campus. As the student ambassador of the university, they greet guests, answer questions about USD, and work at various university sponsored activities and functions.
Students across USD's campus have begun volunteering in this program open to all people living in the San Diego area. Volunteer San Diego is the premier provider of volunteer programs and services in San Diego County . Last year, Volunteer San Diego helped over 38,000 individuals, families, corporate and community groups find volunteer opportunities at more than 720 diverse nonprofit agencies and schools. Our programs and services help these organizations by building their capacity to positively impact the San Diego community. Volunteers of all ages are mobilized to feed the homeless, serve seniors, beautify the environment, read to youth and make numerous other invaluable contributions. Together, we make San Diego a better place to live, work and play. Volunteer San Diego is a local 501c3 nonprofit with national affiliations with the Points of Light Foundation and Hands On Network.
