Other Service Opportunities
Campus Y Opportunities
The Campus Y offers opportunities for hands-on exploration of social justice issues through 18 student-run committees and an executive committee. Founded in 1859, Campus Y is the largest student organization at UNC Chapel Hill and wholly dedicated to the pursuit of social justice through service to the community, education on the campus, and non-violent social action. Campus Y committees focus on poverty, racial reconciliation, economic disparities in our society, and the particular problems of women in a male-dominated social system. Students are welcome to participate in ongoing projects or to bring new projects for assistance by the Y and its three permanent staff members. Campus Y is a department in the Division of Student Affairs but it receives no program funding from the university or student fees. A small endowment, contributions, and in-kind donations support the programs of the students.
Other Opportunities
Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center, Communiversity Volunteer Program
Since its inception in 1988, the Center has focused its efforts on the interdisciplinary examination of Africana lives, cultures and histories. The Center’s current focus is on integrating cultural development with community development, and on building ties to communities and institutions in the African diaspora in the Americas. The Center’s Mission is:
To encourage and support the critical examination of all dimensions of African-American and African diaspora cultures through sustained and open discussion, dialogue and debate, and to enhance the intellectual and socio-cultural climate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in communities beyond the campus boundaries.
The Stone Center works with numerous departments and units of the University to help promote interdisciplinary inquiry, as well as focused examinations from various interdisciplinary and disciplinary perspectives.
Carolina Center for Public Service
In 1999, the University established the Carolina Center for Public Service to strengthen and expand this tradition of engagement, as well as to continue changing lives through educating scholars and leaders dedicated to forging a brighter future for our state, nation and the world.
Mission: The Carolina Center for Public Service engages and supports the faculty, students, and staff of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in meeting the needs of North Carolina and beyond. The Center strengthens the University’s public service commitment by promoting scholarship and service that are responsive to the concerns of the state and contribute to the common good.
Carolina for Kibera (CFK) exists to develop local leaders, catalyze positive change and alleviate poverty in the Kibera slum of Nairobi.
Driven by local needs, their collaborative network of programs advance health, education, ethnic cooperation, gender equality and economic empowerment, and equip leaders with tools to strengthen the community.