SOCIAL SERVICE CLUBS
This alphabetical club listing represents student social service clubs registered for the 2008-2009 academic year. If you would like to have a link added to your club listing, contact the Student Activities Office.
Alliance To Lead And Serve (ATLAS)
The purpose of ATLAS shall be to foster interest in service projects with impacts at home and abroad, through the coordination of service, educational, and awareness projects. ATLAS will work toward its goals by:
A. coordinating a series of service-related events throughout the academic year, and
B. developing and strengthening bonds between members of the Armed Forces community, the University administration, Department of Military Science, and students within the university.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail atlas.
American Cancer Society Club of Notre Dame
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail acsscty.
Arnold Air Society
AAS affords members excellent opportunities for leadership experience.
* Candidates and members find fellowship.
* AAS gives members a chance to come in contact with other men and women who share similar goals.
* AAS aids members in gaining knowledge and appreciation of aerospace power.
* To assist the community and campus through selfless service.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail aas or click here for the AAS web site.
Best Buddies
The purpose of this club is to foster friendships between college students and mildly to moderately physically and/or mentally disabled persons in the local community.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail bbuddies or click here for the Best Buddies web site.
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Notre Dame/Saint Mary's
A.To serve as an extension of the formal program administered by Big Brothers/Sisters (BBBS) of St. Joseph’s
County, Inc. to the Notre Dame and St. Mary’s communities.
B.To supplement, enhance, and assist the Notre Dame/St. Mary’s volunteers in developing their one-on-one
relationships with their Littles.
C.To promote cohesion and recognition for the BBBS volunteers on the two campuses in their efforts to promote
friendship with the assigned youth.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail bbbsnd or click here for the Big Brothers/Big Sisters web site.
Camp Kesem
Our mission is to provide a weeklong summer camp experience that provides children who are coping with a parent's illness or death from cancer the opportunity to gain confidence, self-empowerment, and a sense of control and mastery over their environment.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail ckesem.
Campus Girl Scouts, Notre Dame-Saint Mary's
The purpose of this club is to serve the local community, campus, and council, through volunteerism and special events, such as the Senior/ Cadet Lock-In and sack lunches for Center for the Homeless. To uphold and encourage the principles of Girl Scouting through interaction with younger Girl Scouts and being role models of the principles of honesty, fairness, and service to others.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail grlscout.
Circle K, Notre Dame
The objects of this club shall be:
- To provide service to the South Bend community and to enhance the service experience of the club’s members through reflection, social activities, and leadership opportunities.
- To emphasize the advantages of the democratic way of life;
- To provide the opportunity for leadership training in service;
- To serve on the campus and in the community;
- To cooperate with the administrative officers of the educational institution of which this club is a part;
- To encourage participation in group activities;
- To promote good fellowship and high scholarship;
- To assist charitable causes through service, awareness, monetary contributions and general benevolence;
- To develop aggressive citizenship and the spirit of service for improvement of all human relationships;
- To afford useful training in the social graces and personality development; and encourage and promote the following ideals;
- To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life;
- To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships;
- To promote the adoption and the application of high social, business and professional standards;
- To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship;
- To provide through Circle K clubs a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service, and to build better communities; and
- To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which makes possible the increase in righteousness, justice, patriotism, and good will.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail circlek or click here for the Circle K web site.
College Mentors for Kids
The mission of College Mentors for Kids is to motivate at-risk children to pursue their dreams that may include a college education by pairing them with college students who will teach them that they can achieve anything they want.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail cmk or click here for the College Mentors for Kids web site.
Community Alliance to Serve Hispanics
To serve as a liaison between Notre Dame, Saint Marys and Holy Cross students, faculty, and staff volunteers and social service organizations in the South Bend Hispanic community.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail cash or click here for the Community Alliance to Serve Hispanics web site.
Domers Mentoring Kids
The purpose of DMK shall be to serve as a means of creating effective responses to some of the most prevailing challenges to K-12 education today:
A. coordinating tutoring and mentorship opportunities for ND, SMC, and HCC students
B. measuring statistical outcomes based upon student learning
C. coordinating and operating a budget within the realms of the Faculty Advisor and outside funds (Institute for Educational Initiatives)
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail domers.
Experiential Learning Council
The Experiential Learning Council is designed to develop and enhance experiential and service learning opportunities for Notre Dame and Saint Mary's students, particularly through the student-facilitated experiential learning Seminars offered by the Center for Social Concerns. The organization brings together student leaders of each of the Seminars to create a forum for ideas, to coordinate planning, and to share resources.
If you like more information about this club, please e-mail elc or click here for the Experiential Learning Council web site.
First Aid Services Team, University of Notre Dame
The main concern of FAST is to operate first aid stations for special events and all other events that request first aid coverage on the Notre Dame and St. Mary's campuses.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail fast.
Foodshare
The purpose of Foodshare is:
1. To raise awareness of the problems of food waste and its relation to hunger and to work to create more positive and constructive attitudes to these issues on the Notre Dame campus.
2. To actively participate in the fight against hunger, food waste, and the waste of other valuable resources, through such projects as a food salvage program.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail foodshar.
Habitat for Humanity
If you like more information about this club, please e-mail habitat or click here for the Habitat for Humanity web site.
Helpful Undergraduate Students
The purpose of this club is
- To provide children and infants of memorial and St. Joseph hospital with a nurturing, loving and therapeutic environment.
- To gain valuable experience in child care and medicine while assisting the nurses and staff with their patient rehabilitation therapy.
If you like more information about this club, please e-mail hugs.
Irish Fighting for St. Jude Kids
Irish Fighting for St. Jude Kids has the following objectives, purposes, and goals:
1. To unite Notre Dame campus in an effort spearheaded and led by the University of Notre Dame and St. Mary’s College student bodies.
2. To raise much needed dollars for the children of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
3. To promote the value of service learning to all students of Notre Dame/St. Mary’s.
4. To provide students the opportunity to accumulate valuable, practical knowledge through their Executive Board planning and program execution work.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail stjude or click here for the Irish Fighting for St. Jude Kids web site.
Knights of Columbus, Notre Dame Council, No. 1477
If you would like more information about this club, please email knights or click here for the Knights of Columbus website.
LEAD-ND
The purpose of LEAD-ND shall be to foster a mutually open and effective leadership development network between both active and involved Notre Dame student leaders of all academic, extracurricular, and athletic disciplines and emerging student leaders of the South Bend public school community.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail leadnd or click here for the LEAD-ND web site.
Literacy Awareness - Notre Dame
The purpose of LAND shall be to raise literacy awareness on campus and in the community and to promote education at all levels, adult and child. LAND works toward its goals by:
A. Forming Partnerships; Working collaboratively with local community leaders and organizations, faculty, and other student groups to address the challenge of illiteracy in our community,
B. Programming: planning and implementing events that directly engage those affected by illiteracy, and,
C. Promoting: raising literacy awareness through fundraising, book drives, literacy festivals, literacy awareness week, etc.
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If you would like more information about this club, please email sao.
Ms. Wizard Day Program Team
The purpose of the Ms. Wizard Day Program Team is to organize and conduct a one-day program at the University of Notre Dame in January or February of each year. In that program, the team seeks to achieve the following goals of Ms. Wizard Day:
1. Provide elementary aged girls with the chance to experience a post secondary educational setting and explore a few of the wide variety of options which open up to them as a result of a high school and college education.
2. Create a positive environment for girls to take academic risks and gain confidence in their abilities.
3. Increase the participating girls’ interest and involvement in the sciences by providing an environment for them to achieve success and explore new ideas in science-related activities.
4. Present new applications of the sciences and career possibilities in the sciences in order to increase the girls’ interest.
5. Create an environment for supportive interaction and mentoring between university women and pre-adolescent girls.
6. Encourage participating girls to pursue academic interests and continue in math and science classes through high school and possibly college.
7. Create an environment where the girls can learn about volunteers’ experiences and ask questions pertaining to the college experience and future plans and possibilities.
8. Encourage girls to view themselves as potential scientists, engineers, and business women.
9. Encourage respect for diversity and support minority women in educational pursuits.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail mswizard or click here for the Ms. Wizard Day web site.
Neighborhood Study Help Program
The purpose of the Neighborhood Study Help Program is to provide volunteer tutors to local schools and community centers with children in need of academic assistance.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail nshp.
Operation Smile Student Organization
The purposes of the Operation Smile Student Organization (OSSO) are the following:
1. Educate all students in the area of reconstructive surgery and related health care to indigent children and young adults in developing countries as well as the United States.
2. Provide the opportunity to students from all academic fields, such as education, computers, business, languages, and science to help in different ways as to improve the quality of life for the children, families and communities that share in the Operation Smile experience.
3. Raise funds to allow children around the world to smile for the first time.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail opsmile or click here for the Operation Smile Student Organization web site.
Saint Joseph's Chapin Street Health Center Volunteers
The purpose of this club is to promote an interest in serving the indigent population in the South Bend community and to increase the cohesiveness of the volunteers. Through spiritual reflection, the individuals may deepen their respect for all members of the community as well as further their own educational experiences.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail chapinst.
Slice of Life
The mission of Slice of Life ND is to bring Notre Dame and St. Mary’s students in contact with underprivileged children in the South Bend area in order to help these children improve their academic performance and to build self esteem, self-confidence and respect for themselves and others.
If you like more information about this club, please e-mail sol.
Special Friends Club of Notre Dame
The purpose of this club shall be to unite student volunteers from Notre Dame with children with autism or special needs in the South Bend and Granger communities. The goals of each pair of Special Friends are as follows:
- for the student volunteer to form a unique and loving bond with a child in the community
- to raise greater student awareness of individuals with autism or special needs
- for the student volunteers to assist the children in homework, speech therapy, occupational therapy, play therapy or any other goals outlined by the parent of the child with special needs or autism
- for each student volunteer to spend at least 4 hours per week with that child
- to meet once (or twice if needed) a semester as a club for club business, as well as to discuss how each student-child pair is working out
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail sfriends or click here for the Special Friends web site.
Students for Environmental Action
The purpose of this group of concerned students shall be to educate the Notre Dame and surrounding communities on the importance of environmental issues, not only in the political arena, but in terms of the social, economic, and personal ramifications of these issues in every day activities. These goals shall be accomplished through a variety of activities including but not limited to education in local schools, support of a campus environmental awareness week, and efforts to recycle.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail sea or click here for the Students for Environmental Action web site.
Super Sibs
The purpose of this club shall be to provide friendship and support to area children who have siblings with disabilities. The Notre Dame, Saint Mary's, and Holy Cross students who each have siblings with disabilities will be matched 1:1 with children from the South Bend area who also have siblings with disabilities. The students will be able to mentor the child, provide encouragement, and support because of their own experiences with siblings with disabilities.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail supersib or click here for Super Sibs web site.
Teamwork for Tomorrow
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail teamwork or click here for the Teamwork for Tomorrow web site.
Trident Naval Society
The purpose of Trident Naval Society is to foster professionalism, community, and camaraderie among Club Members and to develop those Members through service and activities which instill values and the necessary character to assume the highest levels of citizenship and command.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail trident.
World Hunger Coalition
The ND World Hunger Coalition was established in 1974 in an attempt to raise awareness on campus of issues related to hunger in the local community and through the world. The WHC organizes a number of educational, spiritual, and service-oriented projects throughout the academic year. The Wednesday Lunch Fast is the group's main project. Those who wish to participate volunteer to skip lunch each Wednesday of the semester and the dining hall donates a designated amount for each meal skipped. That money is then sent to several Third World grassroots developmental projects in an effort to alleviate the suffering of hunger. Sign-ups take place at the beginning of each semester and only those students with meal plans may participate.
In addition, the group sponsors a Thanksgiving and Easter Basket Drive each year. Donations are taken up around campus and used to purchase Thanksgiving/Easter dinners for the less fortunate in the local community.
If you would like more information about this club, please e-mail whc or click here for the World Hunger Coalition web site.