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Join us in helping others and improving our community. Did you know volunteering can be added on to your College applications, can help you earn a scholarship and receive a recommendation letter? Don’t miss out on your opportunity to do good, feel good and benefit your education through volunteerism. Interested in volunteering? Email us at .

Log Your Service Hours

Are you volunteering through one of our many programs or representing the College as a volunteer? If so, log your hours here. All volunteers may be eligible for service awards and recognition!

April Is National Volunteer Month

April 1-May 15 | Personal Care Items Drive

Donate new and unused personal care items to benefit students and families of local K-8 schools and high schools. Contact Michael Miles, Senior Community Egagement Specialist, at for more information. All donations can be brought to the Winnet Student Life Building, Room S2-3 or the Mint Building, Room M2-34. Sign up here.

April 3, 1 to 3 p.m. | Sankofa Community Farm

Help us prepare the garden for the upcoming season by planting and weeding.

April 8, 1:30 to 4 p.m. | MANNA

We will be chopping vegetables, packing meals, filling meal trays, making sandwiches, baking, and more. All meals you help prepare will go directly to MANNA's clients, who are battling life-threatening illnesses such as cancer and HIV/AIDS.

April 11, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. | Philly Spring Cleanup

This is an annual, city-wide effort to remove litter from the neighborhoods of our great city. As a college community, we will gather for this purpose and clean around the College's Career and Technology Center (CATC) located at 4750 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19139. Supplies will be provided but feel free to bring your own. Please RSVP.

April 15, 1 to 3 p.m. | Cradles to Crayons

Cradles to Crayons collects, sorts and distributes items to young children via community partners. Volunteers will assist with processing and packaging the items.

April 18, 4:30 to 7 p.m. | Chosen 300

Chosen 300 provides meals and services to those who are experiencing homelessness and food insecurity here in Philadelphia and beyond. Volunteers will help set up the room, serve meals to the guests and assist with clean up.

Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m | Grady's Garden

The Garden promotes food sovereignty—the right to choose what you eat and how it's grown in a healthy, culturally appropriate, and ecologically sustainable food production system. Activities include planting, weeding watering and more! Sign up here.

Service Learning Spotlight

The following academic areas have offered community engaged service-learning projects in partnership with the Institute for Community Engagement and Civic Leadership!  

• Black Studies students learned about community farming, gardening, harvesting and more at Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden, a local farm rooted in the experience of the African Diaspora
• Behavioral Health and Human Services students partnered with Gateway to College and Project Career Launch to practice Positive Youth Development Strategies for students on their path to graduating high school and entering college and the workforce
• Students in Health Care Studies served at MANNA and prepared food for those who are chronically ill in our City
• Respiratory Care students supported our Adopt-A-School Holiday drive promoting the initiative and collecting items for School District of Philadelphia students from K- 8th grades
• Allied Health students supported Grady’s Garden to support food sovereignty at the College for our students and local community. These students also hosted an in-class opportunity in which they made and donated sandwiches to a local non-profit that supports our city's unhoused population. 

Additional Volunteer Opportunities

#CCPVotes

If you are passionate about social justice issues, want to create change in your city and beyond, and you are interested in learning more about how our democracy works, get involved with #CCPVotes. The Institute’s civic engagement and voter education program has opportunities to volunteer at voter registration tables, participate in virtual voter education sessions, and intern at nonprofits in the city. Reach out to to learn more.

Grady’s Community Garden

Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. | 17th Street, next to the Bonnell Building

The Garden promotes food sovereignty—the right to choose what you eat and how it's grown in a healthy, culturally appropriate, and ecologically sustainable food production system. Activities include planting, weeding, watering and more! Please contact  to learn more.

Contact Us

Do you have a question about volunteering or service-learning? Please contact  to learn more.