Exciting New Service Opportunities!

Transportation is provided to the service sites.
The events are in-person events.
COVID safety protocols will be followed.
Be sure to check out all of our service opportunities on GivePulse!

Greater Cleveland Food Bank

Wednesday, April 6th | 4:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Thursday, April 21st | 4:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Tuesday, April 26th | 4:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Volunteers are needed to help sort and repack nonperishable food that is later distributed to local food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones Health Center Mobile Food Pantry

Saturday, February 26th | 8:40 am - 12:20 pm

Saturday, March 26th | 8:40 am - 12:20 pm

Service participants will help sort, repack, and distribute food items to community members experiencing food insecurity. This activity will take place at the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Health Center, a branch of the Cleveland Clinic.

Community Arts Center Clean-Up

Sunday, February 27th | 1:45pm - 3:45pm

Sunday, March 20th | 1:45pm - 3:45pm

Volunteers will help with yard-work, cleaning, and special projects which might include setting up for events, moving items out of the building as we make room for arts organizations, helping with the food center in our building, or more specialized projects based on volunteer’s interests and the Center’s needs.

Jesuit Day of Service (JDOS) is the biggest community event at John Carroll each year. This spring it will be in-person and you will be working with one of our local Cleveland community partners.

Jesuit Day of Service will take place on Saturday, April 30th, 2022.

Schedule for the Day:

9:00 am Check-in and Kick-Off Event at Kulas Audiorium
9:30 am Board busses and depart for your community partner site
10:00 am - 12:30 pm Work at community partner site
12:30 pm - 12:45 pm Clean up and board busses
1:15 pm Cookout Lunch back on campus

Register with your friends! Have a great time helping our local community! Lunch will be provided after the event back on campus, dress for the weather, and have a great time!

We extend a warm welcome to Rebecca, Sydney, Jo, Mallory, Morgan, Olivia and Celeste and are delighted you are part of the team!

Join the TEAM: Apply to be a CSSA Student Liaison!

We are looking for applicants who embrace the JCU mission of being men and women for and with others! As a CSSA representative, Student Liaisons serve as peer service leaders and van drivers as they facilitate a positive service experience for their fellow JCU students. This paid position allows you to do all this and gain professional experience!

For more information:

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Celeste Wellman '25

Major: Exercise Science

Hometown: Middleburg Heights, OH

"St. Thomas Aquinas educates ages K-8, and I have gotten the chance to work with kindergarteners and first graders which allowed me to meet students of different education levels. This is my first time actually working with students in a school setting. It was difficult at first, I needed to approach this experience with patience and understanding. The biggest lesson I have learned is to understand that all students are at different levels in their education. It is important to adapt to a specific need for each student in order to make progress every day, in whatever part of learning they are at..."

The Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion will honor Black History Month with several on-campus events, including book reads, virtual performances, and a traveling museum of African-American artifacts, paintings, and articles.

On Friday, February 24, 2022 at 4:30 pm, The Center for Student Diversity & Inclusion and Ursuline College will host the 2nd Annual African American Read-In. Join us via Zoom to listen and share powerful pieces of spoken word poetry, excerpts from books, monologues from movies, and much more to honor past and current Black writers and artists. Participants can register at this link.

For more events and information, click here!

Registration is NOW OPEN for the 2022 IMPACT National Conference!

This year’s conference will be a 1-day, virtual event taking place on

Friday, February 25th from

12:00pm EST to 6:30PM EST.

Hear from Keynote Speaker Pita Juarez!

Pita is a filmmaker, journalist, and political communications strategist. Pita’s advocacy and journalism work has been featured in National Geographic, CNN Latino, Remezcla, NPR, and Univision.

Impact Conference Schedule:

11:00 – 11:45 AM Pre-Conference Coffee Hour

12:00 – 1:45 PM Conference Kickoff & Panel

2:00 – 3:15 PM Workshop Block 1

3:15 – 3:30 PM BREAK

3:30 – 4:45 PM Workshop Block 2

5:00 – 6:15 PM Keynote

6:30 – 7:30 PM Administrator Networking Happy Hour

For more information, click here

Please email Heather Craigie at hcraigie@jcu.edu if you are interesting in attending!

Join the Immigration Advocacy Club on

Thursday, February 24th

6:30 pm - 7:45 pm

LSC Conference Room

Watch the documentary "Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos In America."

This is a documentary about the immigration journey of so many people from Latin America and the truth about why the U.S has become the number 1 place, Latin American people want to move to. The Immigration Advocacy Group is a student-run organization that has been created with the purpose of raising awareness about immigration and issues at the US/MX border. Their main goal is to help people understand the realities of immigrant lives and the difficulties they face daily. They also do hands-on work with immigrant families to build community in University Heights.

RSVP to immigration@jcu.edu

Carroll Reads is a tutoring program aimed at helping children in

Elementary grades refine reading and skills.

"It was great to see the kids be excited to learn and I also noticed that they had improved since the last time I was there, which was a really cool thing to see: I noticed that one of my kids had improved in a subject that he was specifically struggling in and that made me feel proud."

-Eli D.

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