Service Trips

Alternative Spring Break Grant Hutton Honors College
*Grants are limited to Hutton Honors College students
Consider an "alternative" spring break”! Head off to a different locale and gain a better understanding of yourself and your capacity for helping others, and make new friends along the way! Grants of $50 to $250 are available to Hutton Honors College students.

Alternative Spring Break (ASB) program Kelley School of Business Civic Leadership Development (CLD)
ASB provides an opportunity for any student to donate their time in a meaningful way during a week-long service project. Participants work with pressing social issues such as hunger, homelessness, and environmental affairs all across the US and the globe. All students are welcome to become CLD members. Membership is a prerequisite for the trip.

Hillel Spring Break Trip

Indiana University Hillel offers multiple spring break trips to help those in need. The goal of the trips is to encourage the Jewish concept of Tikkun Olam (fixing the world) amongst students by providing hands on trips for interested students. This year Hillel is offering trips to New Orleans to provide assistance by teaming up with Rebuilding Together and Habitat for Humanity's Camp Hope and a separate trip to Miami with City Year to work with inner-city and homeless individuals. Students gain an appreciation of the importance of helping others while making significant differences in the lives of others. Each trip is March 14th-21st, and costs $200 plus airfare. Registration and more information is available at http://hillel.org/tzedek/altbreaks. You can also contact Hillel Program Director Jen Abzug Zaligson at jazaligs@indiana.edu or 336-3824 with questions. 

International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership
IPSL offers programs in 14 countries that unite academic study and volunteer service, giving students a fully integrated study abroad experience.

IU Timmy Foundation Medical Missions Trips
A student organization founded in 2002, the mission of the IU Timmy Foundation is building healthy futures worldwide, one child at a time. We accomplish this by strengthening community-based health and education initiatives and empowering students to share their energy and compassion.  We enable volunteers to travel with us to strengthen the health and education initiatives of our international partner, Crossroads, in the Dominican Republic. These healing missions are one week during spring break and one week after spring semester ends and are paid for by the volunteers themselves.

Roots, Fruits & Jamaican Ecologies: Permaculture Initiatives in the Blue & John Crow Mountains
This interdisciplinary service-learning course is a partnership between Indiana University, the Jamaica Conservation and Development Trust (JCDT), and the community of Millbank in eastern Jamaica.  Students will participate in permaculture and service-learning initiatives associated with park management, sustainable agriculture, and ecotourism projects.

Voices of Katrina, Voices of Service (EDUC F401/W505)

This is a course where students learn how service can align with academic learning and social change. Students will critically examine the limits and strengths of service in social change as they learn about issues of poverty – statistics and implications as related to Hurricane Katrina. And, they will be able to experience a sense of efficacy as they enhance their ability to hear, dialogue, and reflect on the issues addressed in the rebuilding of Katrina. This is a spring semester 3 credit hour Alternative Spring Break course that will meet from February 23 to March 30, 2010. As part of the class, during the week of spring break students will travel to New Orleans to engage in direct service projects. For more information, please contact Cate Hart (camhart@indiana.edu).

Youth Advocating Leadership and Learning (Y’ALL)
Y’ALL is a student organization established in 2005 in response to Hurricane Katrina. Y’ALL student executive planners have developed a comprehensive annual response with IU student commitment to help rebuild the Gulf Coast by coordinating four trips per year.  Each trip brings an average of 200 students to both Biloxi, Mississippi and New Orleans, Louisiana and each semester is supported by a collaborative team of staff advisors.

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