Service Learning

Offered in the fall and spring, our Service Learning Program pairs education with community service to allow youth to learn-by-doing, expanding their knowledge of the community and inspiring self-motivated engagement. 

Children in 3rd - 5th grade learn about a specific community need alongside their peers, brainstorm solutions together, volunteer in support of that community issue, and reflect on what they have learned in the program while working independently on a personal service project. 

Service Learning helps youth on the pathway to lifelong volunteerism, philanthropy, and community leadership expand on what they have learned through Family Volunteering.

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Fall 2018 Service Learning Programs

This fall, thanks to our generous supporters we will offer four Service Learning Programs, each focused on a different community need - helping the environment, helping people in need, helping seniors, and helping animals!

Our Helping Animals group will learn from and support these organizations!

Austin Wildlife Rescue

Central Texas SPCA

Austin Humane Society
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Safe in Austin

Participants learning about animals at the rescue zoo

Our Helping the Environment group will learn from and support these organizations!

Keep Austin Beautiful

TreeFolks

Colorado River Alliance

Austin Creative Reuse

Learning about the impact of litter over time

Our Helping People in Need group will learn from and support these organizations!

Hope Totes

​Community First! Village

Partnerships for Children

Micah 6 Food Pantry

Sorting and shelving donations for children and families

Our Helping Seniors group will learn from and support these organizations!

SAIVA

Senior Access

Westminster Manor

Alzheimer's Association

Service Learning participants brainstorming together

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Highlights from Service Learning - Helping People

Sharing ideas about helping people in poverty

Preparing backpacks for children in need

Service Learning participants posing for a picture together!

Partner organizations supported by this program:

Alzheimer's Association​
​Central Texas Food Bank
​Homeless Task Force
Hope Totes
Micah 6 Pantry
Mobile Loaves & Fishes Community First! Village
​Partnerships for Children
SAIVA
Senior Access
​Westminster Manor

Bagging groceries for food pantry recipients

Highlights from Service Learning - Helping Animals

Sharing ideas about how to help animals

Families making warmers for shelter kittens

Making blankets for shelter dogs

Helping at the Austin Humane Society

Partner organizations supported by this program:

Austin Humane Society
Austin Zoo & Sanctuary
Austin Wildlife Rescue
​Central Texas SPCA
​Emancipet
Safe in Austin

Service Learning participant meeting a tortoise!

Highlights from Service Learning - Helping the Environment

Volunteering at a TreeFolks activity

Learning about organizations that care for the local environment

Sorting donations at Austin Creative Reuse

Students brainstorming together

Partner organizations supported by this program:

Austin Creative Reuse
​Colorado River Alliance
Treefolks
Keep Austin Beautiful

Cleaning up litter for the Colorado River Authority