FUTURE STUDENTS FACULTY & STAFF FRIENDS & VISITORS
CURRENT STUDENTS ALUMNI  
 
  Campus & Community Involvement  
 

Service Links

**Click on the subheading that you would like to view**

Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteer Match
Find a volunteer opportunity that fits your interests, skills, and schedule. Receive personalized emails listing new and upcoming volunteer opportunities based on your personal search criteria.

United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County
Maintains a large database of volunteer opportunities in San Antonio and throughout Bexar County.

Corporation for National & Community Service
Find out current happenings with service and volunteerism on the national level.

American Friends Service Committee
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service.

Do Something
A national non-profit organization that inspires young people to believe that change is possible, and trains, funds, and mobilizes them to be leaders who measurably strengthen their communities.

City Year
City Year's mission is to build democracy through citizen service, civic leadership and social entrepreneurship.

Internships, Jobs, and Volunteer Corps

Idealist.org
Idealist.org is a project of Action without Borders. You can search over 46,000 non-profit and community organization in 165 countries for post-graduate jobs, internships, and/or volunteer opportunities.

AmeriCorps
"The domestic Peace Corps." You do service for your community. You earn money for school. You get experience for life.

Peace Corps
Volunteers travel overseas to make real differences in the lives of real people.

Institute for Global Communications
Provides links to thousands of social change organizations through PeaceNet, EcoNet, ConflictNet, LaborNet, and WomensNet.

Council of International Education Exchange
The mission of Council is to help people gain understanding, acquire knowledge, and develop skills for living in a globally interdependent and culturally diverse world.

The Everett Public Service Internship Program
The Everett Program serves two goals. First, it encourages students' future involvement in public service by acquainting them with the challenges and rewards of public interest work. Second, it provides the public interest community, which too often functions on limited resources, with the dedication, energy, and idealism that interns bring to their work.

Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs
HECUA is an organization of 17 liberal arts colleges, universities and associations dedicated to education for social justice. Together we shape academically rigorous, study-abroad and off-campus study programs that address the most pressing issues in our neighborhoods, nations and world.

Breakthrough Collaborative
Breakthrough Collaborative is a national non-profit that increases educational opportunity for high-potential, low-income middle school students and inspires outstanding college and high school students to pursue careers in education.

The School of Field Studies
Our goal is to enable you to come away from your SFS experience with an understanding of the complexity and interrelatedness of environmental issues, as well as an increased commitment and new skills to help improve the environment and the lives people dependent on that environment.

Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG)
Focused on consumer advocacy, environmental protection, campaign finance reform, and student activism. U.S. PIRG is a non-profit, non-partisan organization serving as a watchdog for the nation's citizens and environment. Both the national PIRG and individual state PIRGs offer internships and career positions.

Teach for America
A national teacher corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors and cultural backgrounds who commit two years to teach in under-resourced urban and rural public schools.

Social Justice

National Coalition for the Homeless

Oxfam America

Covenant House

UNICEF

Amnesty International

Human Rights Watch

Student Environmental Action Coalition

Greenpeace

Environmental Organization Web Directory

Appalachian Trail Conference

Landmark Volunteer

The Himalayan Explorers Club

Amizade

Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education

Mobility International USA

The Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First)

 

 


Questions or comments?
amy.parkhurst@trinity.edu

 


Campus & Community Involvement
Coates University Center
One Trinity Place,
San Antonio, Texas 78212-7200
(210) 999-7547
(210) 999-7254 fax