The Arrupe Neighborhood Partnership (Arrupe), a unique service and community-based program, is central to Saint Ignatius High School's focus on developing "Men for Others."  We offer students and their parents an opportunity to become involved, serve others, build friendships, strengthen their faith, and ultimately to make a difference in the lives of neighborhood children and families in need.  Arrupe sponsors a variety of afterschool service programs and events throughout the school year and summer.

The club prepares fund-raisers and bi-monthly trips to DC soup kitchens

Children and teens, ages six and up, go to the Shehan Center because it offers a safe, positive, fun environment. Volunteers may assist with the two afterschool programs (one educational, one recreational) by helping with homework, reinforcing English language skills, playing games and sports with the children, and acting as positive role models. You may also choose to be a volunteer coach for sports such as basketball and flag football.

The Center for Service and Social Action believes that, through service, we can deepen our understanding of and be a conduit for positive change within our local, national, and international community.

The Center for Service and Social Action seeks to develop service opportunities which build relationships, enhance learning, encourage active citizenship, and support the John Carroll University mission to "inspire individuals to excel in learning, leadership, and service in the region and in the world." We offer a variety of programs to meet the needs of our community partners and the interests of our service participants, including Service Learning, Voluntary Service, Service Projects and Events, and service-based Immersion Experiences.

The Center for Service and Justice (CSJ) offers a variety of opportunities for students to learn from, engage in and reflect on service and social justice.

Volunteer Opportunities- CSJ works with community partners near the Rose Hill and Lincoln Center campuses to place students in a variety of service environments:
Volunteer Opportunities -Rose Hill
Volunteer Opportunities - Lincoln Center

Service Learning- CSJ helps students connect academics to volunteers experiences in the community through the Service Learning Program.
Service Learning Program

Internship Opportunities- Students can obtain paid and unpaid internship opportunities through CSJ, working in a variety of social service environments.
Internship Opportunities

Post-Graduate Vocational Discernment- CSJ helps connect students to long-term volunteer opportunities after graduation, as well as nonprofit careers in the New York area.
Post Graduate Opportunities

Integrated Service-learning Community- CSJ has developed an Integrated Serivce-Learning Community located in the Belmont neighborhood in the Bronx where students committ to ongoing volunteering during the year and participate in weekly reflection and community building activities.
Integrated Service-Learning Community

Locally, Bellarmine sponsors both urban and rural "plunges" on a number of weekends throughout the school year. The urban plunge provides students and faculty with the opportunity to grapple with the issues related to homelessness in San Jose. Students meet with a number of different agencies that serve the homeless, and provide service via working at soup kitchens. The rural plunge takes students to Salinas for several days, where they work with and hope better to understand the struggles faced by migrant farm workers.

The Loyola Project matches student tutors with inner-city impoverished youth.

Service is a significant part of most students’ Marquette experience through New Student Orientation, in student organizations, as part of residence floor activities, in classes, and as part of leadership development programs and athletic teams' activities. The Office of Student Development at Marquette University coordinates community service programs like Best Buddies, Habitat for Humanity, literacy training, jail visitations and Hunger Clean Up.  The OSD invites Marquette student to strive to “Be the Difference!”

Student Programs for Urban Development (SPUD) is a community service organization sponsored by the Chaplains’ Office. Consisting of over 25 different outreach programs and over 350 active members, SPUD is the largest student organization at Holy Cross.

We understand our service to those who are marginalized in terms of developing a relationship of solidarity. Therefore, participants in the SPUD program are expected to commit to the following:

• September Orientation and January Re-Orientation Programs
• Weekly service in a designated SPUD program
• Monthly reflections led by student program directors

A long-standing partnership between Fairfield University and Action for Bridgeport Community Development, Inc. (ABCD) provides opportunities for students to be involved in preventive intervention that helps low-income preschoolers and their parents in language and reading, while learning about child development and cognition.

The Mustard Seed, a Catholic Worker House, is an institution that is dedicated to feeding the hungry and homeless of the greater Worcester Area. Student volunteers can expect to help in serving meals prepared by local church groups, as well as to assist with clean up after meals are served.

One of the most valuable aspects of working at the Mustard Seed is the regular is the regular contact between volunteers and its clients, something that is often impossible at traditional soup kitchens.

One student described his volunteer experience as follows: "The relationships I have developed with the people who attend the Mustard Seed for meals have opened me up to a whole new world that I never knew existed. It has given me a greater appreciation for a life and has made me into a better person."