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Africa Faith and Justice Network
AFJN is a student group based off of the Washington based AFJN. It looks to better US Foreign Policy toward Africa. Our group works to raise awareness about these issues on campus that reflect responsibility to and solidarity with Africa through Faith and Justice.
Contact: Sara Snider – ssnider@nd.edu
Alliance to Lead and Serve (ATLAS)
A service club affiliated with Army ROTC to serve the local community with special emphasize on the military community, both local and global.
Contact: Meagan Walerko – Waler01@saintmarys.edu
Arnold Air Society
Arnold Air Society works towards a national project each year. This year we will focus on combating poverty and homelessness. Membership is affiliated with Air Force ROTC. However, others maybe involved with our civilian counterpart, Silver Wings.
Contact: Margaret Lindley – mlindle1@nd.edu
Best Buddies
Best Buddies is an organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with developmental disabilities in the community by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships with students.
Contact: Patrick Noble - pnoble@nd.edu
Campus Girl Scouts
Campus Girl Scouts is a service club which works with younger girl scouts in the area. We run badge workshops and do service projects for community charities.
Contact: Monica Tarnawski – mtarnaws@nd.edu
CASH (Community Alliance Serving Hispanics)
CASH is a club that provides service and outreach to the Hispanic community in South Bend. Opportunities include teaching ESL classes, tutoring, translating in health centers, teaching and many more.
Contact: Florencia Segura – msegura1@nd.edu
Children’s Defense Fund
We are affiliated with Children’s Defense Fund International which is primarily concerned with legislation dealing with children’s issues.
Contact: Xifan “CiCi” Zhang – xzhang5@nd.edu
Circle K
Circle K is a Kiwanis-affiliated service club that provides free transportation to weekly service projects in and around the South Bend community. Every week, we send members to about 20 different service projects. In addition, we offer larger-scale weekend projects. We also provide approximately 50 different leadership positions and offer a forum in which to meet many other service-minded individuals.
Contact: Katie Teitgen – kteitgen@nd.edu
College Mentors for Kids
College Mentors for Kids is a program that brings elementary school children from South Bend to campus once a week to spend time with their mentors doing
activities. These activities focus on culture and diversity, community service, and higher education.
Contact: Stephanie Gargala - sgargala@nd.edu
Domers Mentoring Kids
Student club that groups the volunteers of three distinct programs:
“Our Lady’s Helpers” and “SAINTS” place student as tutors in underserved Catholic grade schools. “BANDLINK” places band members to teach music at local schools.
Contact: Lauren Barton – lbarton@nd.edu
FAST
FAST provides first aid coverage for varsity athletics, student activities (runs and bookstore basketball), and special events (concerts). Members are trained in CPR, oxygen delivery and AED USG as well as standard first aid by certified student instructors.
Contact: Derek Lipp – dlipp@nd.edu
Feminist Voice
Feminist Voices is a club made up of both men and women that are dedicated to strengthening the community of women on campus and in South Bend. Our activities include fund-raising to stop violence against women, working with other groups on campus with the eating disorders conference, as well as other activities that support women in general.
Contact: Stacy Williams – swilli11@nd.edu
First Book
First Book is a national organization whose goal is to provide children from low-income families with their first books to own. The Notre Dame Campus Advisory Board obtains books through fundraising and grants, and distributes them monthly to existing community groups and tutoring programs.
Contact: Kelly Bresler - kbresler@nd.edu
Foodshare
We deliver food to the hope Rescue Mission that is leftover from NDH Sunday – Thursday. We also serve meals at the Center for the Homeless and Broadway Christian Parish.
Contact: Mimi Longo – mlongo@nd.edu
Habitat for Humanity
Volunteers are needed to work on construction projects, fundraisers, interact with partner families. Help us build a home for a local family. Contact Will Flanagan or go to www.nd.edu/~habitat/
Contact: Will Flanagan - Flanagan.36@nd.edu
Helpful Undergraduate Students (HUGS)
Members of HUGS volunteer 3 hours per week in the pediatric ward of Memorial Hospital. Tasks include holding and feeding babies, reading to and playing with children, straightening the play room, cleaning toys, and doing administrative work/paperwork.
Contact: Blair Glasgo – blasgo@nd.edu
Human Rights ND (HRND)
HRND is a human rights organization that seeks to give a voice to the people who have no voice. Through advocacy, petitioning, letter writing, and education, HRND seeks to promote justice and peace throughout the world.
Contact: Gary Nijak, Jr. – gnijak1@nd.edu
Irish Fighting for Saint Jude’s Kids
Our club raises money for the children of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Contact: Sara Hawley – Shawley@nd.edu
Lead ND
Lead ND and its volunteers coordinate and run Lead ND programs in four intermediate centers in South Bend. Students interact with youth termed “non-traditional leaders” teaching them social action, civic engagement and leadership through methods of service learning.
Contact: Saderia Nicole Hooks – shooks@nd.edu
Ms. Wizard Day
Ms.Wizard day is an event that takes place twice a year and brings 4-6th grade girls from the South Bend community to campus to expose them what science has to offer them. The girls are given tours of labs by professors and participate in fun science experiments with students from many disciplines.
Contact: Elizabeth Nye – enye@nd.edu
ND for Animals
ND for Animals believes in recognizing the dignity of all living beings and the role humans have as stewards of the earth. We work to expose and end animal abuse by promoting compassionate and informed individual choices.
Contact: Elizabeth Lee - Elee5@nd.edu
ND-8: Millennium Development Student Group
ND-8 aims to raise awareness of the eight UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). We mobilize students by encouraging them to realize the active, individual role everyone can play in contributing to the large global effort to end extreme poverty. Our activities include petitioning governments and organizing real, practicable action in tandem with the Catholic ideals which are upheld by the University.
Contact: Ashley Mayworm – amayworm@nd.edu
Neighborhood Study-Help Program
Tutor 3rd and 4th graders at Lincoln Elementary. Focus is on math, reading, writing skills, as well as good study habits. Federal Work-Study available. Transportation provided.
Contact: Crystal Truong – ctruong@nd.edu
Notre Dame Peace Fellowship
A group of Notre Dame students committed to peace and justice through prayer, community, and action. NDPF hopes to encourage dialogue on the issues of war and peace through educational events, student activism, discussion with ROTC and public prayer.
Contact: Michael Angulo – mangulo@nd.edu
Operation Smile
The goal of this club is to fundraise to fund operations of children with cleft lips living in poverty.
Contact: James Petrocelli – jpetroce@nd.edu
Progressive Student Alliance
PSA works for social justice by organizing around issues to create change and working with individuals and groups on both local and global level. Recent foci have been economic justice, student power, and rights for all.
Contact: Mike McCann – mmccann1@nd.edu
Silver Wings
A service club with two main foci. The first is issues of local community development and social action. The second focus is on the families of service men and women in the armed forces, and the servicemen and women themselves. On this goal especially, Silver Wings works closely with the Arnold Air Society service club.
Contact: Paul Spadafora (President) – pspardafo@nd.edu
Slice of Life ND
Slice of Life ND is a reading focused tutoring program based out of River Park Methodist Church. Students range from kindergarten to 8th grade. Transportation is provided and attendance is flexible.
Contact: Mike Dowdall – mdowall@nd.edu
Social Justice in American Medicine (SJAM)
The mission of Social Justice in American Medicine (SJAM) is to inspire student awareness of injustices in American healthcare and to stimulate an atmosphere
for devising and advocating potential remedies through the organization of a regular series of guest speakers and student discussions which propose a new direction for the future of American healthcare.
Contact: Lindsay Martin - lmartin8@nd.edu
Students for Environmental Action
Promote environmental ideals through education and community service in the area.
Contact: Thomas Furlong – tfurlong@nd.edu
SuperSibs
This is a club for students who have siblings with disabilities who are interested in befriending, mentoring, and participating in activities with children in the South Bend community who also have disabled brothers and sisters. We have bimonthly, 2-hour activities, that occasionally occur on the weekends but primarily during the week.
Contact: Claire Maulit (Co-President) – cmaulit@nd.edu
Sustained Dialogue
In Sustained Dialogue we gather in small groups to discuss various social issues within the Notre Dame community and to think about how they can be addressed.
Contact: Riley Saunders – msaunde2@nd.edu
Teamwork for Tomorrow
Teamwork is a mentoring organization that pairs under-privileged youths from South Bend with a mentor/tutor from ND/SMC. The benefit of Teamwork is that it allows kids and tutors to form bonds that can become rather strong. Teamwork meets twice a week at two off-campus sites from 4-6pm, either M/W or T/TH.
Contact: Andrew Zeiser – azeiser@nd.edu
Trident Naval Society
Community service and naval education organization.
Contact: Patrick Martin – pmartin3@nd.edu
World Hunger Coalition
World Hunger Coalition is dedicated relieving hunger of those who are starving both here in South Bend and throughout the world. WHC recruits students for the weekly dining hall Wednesday Lunch Fast to raise funds and organizes hunger relief activities (food drives and holiday food baskets).
Contact: Jessica Pillarella – jpillare@nd.edu
