The Center for Community Action and Service Learing is a resource center for students, faculty, and community partners who are engaged in curricular and co-curricular community service initiatives.  It empowers students to take action through community involvement, education, and public service to strive for social justice.

The Center for Service and Community Engagement  serves as the main entry point for students, faculty, and staff who want to serve and learn in the community. The Center also acts as the focal point for community-based organizations and government institutions seeking University support to address unmet community needs. The Center encourages all forms of community engagement including direct service, philanthropy, activism, political participation, social entrepreneurship, community-based research, and advocacy.

The Gonzaga Institute for Action Against Hate was founded as a positive and enduring vehicle for combating hate and hate crimes on campuses and in communities throughout the nation. While numerous government and non-governmental organizations are working against hate, the Institute is the only organization whose primary goal is to focus multi-disciplinary academic resources on the causes and effects of hate as well as potential strategies for combating hate.

Students enrolled in the Immigration Clinic will provide legal representation to clients in immigration proceedings. Students will get involved at various stages of these proceedings, which may include proceedings before Immigration Officers, Immigration Courts, Board of Immigration Appeals or Circuit Courts of Appeals. 
 

For many years St. Rita of Cascia Catholic Church has been supporting and communicating with the missions of Kasisi in Africa, St. Catherine's in Alaska, and the Swinomish Spirituality Center in LaConner, Wa.
Not simply an exchange of letters, this helps the community realize the values associated with being a Jesuit parish, such as a real concern for the well being of others and a spirituality that moves St. Rita's forward.

IGonzaga has a historic commitment to the Indian people of the Northwest, and GIEOP is one of Gonzaga's outward expressions of its original mission. GIEOP works with its partner schools on the Colville and Spokane Indian Reservations through a service leaning class that is based in the Biology department. GIEOP also supports teacher education in inquiry-based science learning and culturally-relevant curriculum development.

Seniors devote one school day to direct service with the poor.

Immersion trip to El Salvador.

The VOICE welcomes all students 9-12 grades and has received accolades for its generosity and support of our sister parish in El Salvador, as well as its work with many ministries within our community.

The VOICE has received media attention for its support and work with Pastor Patrinell Wright, founder of the Total Experience Gospel Choir. Since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, the group has worked with Pat to send three large donations of supplies directly into Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana.

The group will continue to support Pat Wright and the Total Experience Gospel Choir as they focus on getting families out of FEMA Trailers one family at a time.