Information for Students

• Impact Speaker Series
• Perspectives Book Club
• Speak Dialogue Series

Rotaract Club is a campus club for students who are 18–30 years of age, are civically minded, and want to give back to their community

Service in Action is a series of service projects hosted by Service-Learning each fall semester and each spring semester.

We are not holding Service in Action in spring 2021.

Alternative Breaks are low-cost service trips where you participate in meaningful service activities, learn more about community issues, and have fun.

The MLK Challenge is an annual service event held on MLK Day in January. By serving your community, you celebrate the life and teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Project Life Movement is a campus-based national marrow donor organization. It is dedicated to saving lives. Project Life drives on campus seek to register donors to the national list to save the lives of those who have blood cancers and other diseases. Drives happen in the spring semester of the academic year.

At Volunteer Fairs, you can meet our community partners to learn about opportunities to serve in their organizations.

Advocacy service-learning is educating others about topics of public interest. These are projects that aim to create awareness and action on some issue that impacts the community.

General

• Register to vote
• Host a voter registration drive (PDF)
• Write a letter to local/national politicians
• Start or sign a petition

Local

• Attend a city council meeting virtually
• Write a letter to the editor

Research based Service-Learning is gathering and presenting information on areas of interest that find, gather, and report on needed information.

General

• Identify human rights violations online
• Translate forms into another language
• Create a guide to available services in Charlotte around a specific topic
• Create flyers/brochures/videos for local nonprofits
• Research the history of a social topic to present
• Analyze a nonprofit’s survey results to determine effectiveness of services

Local

Assist Historic Rural Hill in video making and research. Contact kelvin.chege@cpcc.edu for more information.

Indirect Service-Learning is service working on broad issues. Environmental projects are community development projects that have clear benefits to the community or environment, but not necessarily to an identified person or groups of people.

General

• Volunteer with the United Nations online
• Become a social ambassador for Girls Inc.
• Record Your voice for those with speech impairments
• Answer questions to donate food to the hungry
• Donate your quarantine hair
• Fundraise to make wigs for cancer patients
• Assist the ocean conservancy

Local

Host a book club or join the Perspective Book Club series through Service-Learning. Contact lindsey.graves@cpcc.edu for more information.

Direct Service-Learning is the traditional person-to-person, face-to-face service projects in which your service directly impacts a person/group of people who receive the service.

General, At-Home Projects

• Make no-sew T-shirt bags
• Create art for COVID patients
• Tutor children virtually
• Assist the visually impaired
• Write letters to soldiers
• Donate shoes to make running tracks
• Donate shoes to make playgrounds

Local

• Donate blood
• Host a virtual blood drive
• Host an in-person blood drive
• Host a virtual food drive with Loaves & Fishes
• Write messages of kindness
• Make DIY blankets and donate to Project Linus
• Write letters to local seniors by contacting maleonard@cmlibrary.org
• Create DIY calming bottles for autistic children and donate to Autism Charlotte
• Make DIY dog treats
• Make DIY dog toys (video)
• Help post about adoptable animals at the Humane Society
• Make DIY homeless care packages and donate to the Men’s Shelter of Charlotte
• Make cards for COVID first responders and donate them to Novant Health

In the America Reads work-study, you will tutor children in reading. If accepted into the program, you will work at a predetermined elementary school. The volunteer coordinator at the elementary school will supervise you, help you set your schedule, and provide you with direction.

To apply for the America Reads work-study position:

• Work-study time sheet (PDF)
• America Reads work-study application (PDF)

If accepted into the program, you will work at one of our selected community partners (typically, a non-profit in the Charlotte area). Possible agencies where you may be placed include, but are not limited to, Freedom School Partners, Friendship Trays, Crisis Assistance Ministries, A Child's Place, Bright Blessings, and Habitat for Humanity. The job description for the Community Service work-study will vary by agency and will be discussed upon request.

If you are accepted as a Community Service work-study student, you are expected to:

• attend one of the mandatory orientation sessions
• complete any required application or other information needed by the agency where you are placed
• keep in contact with your Central Piedmont supervisor
• provide appropriate contact information (i.e. phone and email)
• work no more than 20 hours per work (the hours can be subject to change)
• submit to background checks and volunteer screening
• provide your own transportation
• submit your time sheets electronically every month through Web Advisor (once your hours are submitted, your on-site supervisor will need to verify your hours)

For more information or questions about the Community Service work-study, contact Dena Shonts at dena.shonts@cpcc.edu or 704.330.6558, or stop by the Overcash Performing Arts Center, Room 241C on Central Campus.

To apply for the Community Service work-study position:

• Work-study time sheet (PDF)
• Community Service work-study application (PDF)

The service-learning record is a document that we can create for you that lists all of the service hours you have turned in to our department. It can include service you have done while enrolled at Central Piedmont with a particular class or on your own. The service-learning record is a great way to make yourself stand out to a four-year university or employer.

Your service record will not be sent automatically — you must request your record. You can request a PDF copy of your service-learning service record from Terry Galante at terry.galante@cpcc.edu. Please provide your full name and student ID number in your request.

Service-Learning is proud to award our civically engaged Central Piedmont students with a pin to wear with your graduation regalia. You can be awarded a pin if you complete 30 or more hours of service or community engagement. You can pick up your pin after you apply for graduation and our office has verified that you have completed 30 or more service hours. To request a service-learning pin, email Terry Galante at terry.galante@cpcc.edu.