E lon Volunteers! and Habitat for Humanity are

celebrating our 25th Anniversary next year! We

would love to see alumni come back and visit the

office or attend an event during Homecoming Weekend.

More details about the weekend will be shared in the

coming months. We hope to see you here and to continue

impacting the world through service for another 25 years.

AlumniAlumni NewsletterNewsletter Spring 2013

O ur student team is hard at

work tabulating thousands of

student service hours! Each

year we look for ways to increase

student service. This year we’ve

collaborated with the Love School of

Business to increase their student

participation. Our PACE students have

worked to increase student service

campus wide through outreach

programs.

E lon Volunteers! Awareness

organizations offer students

opportunities to learn about both local

and global human rights and social justice issues.

As a council, Invisible Children, Amnesty

International, Oxfam, and Sierra Club are planning

a collaborative event this spring that will

incorporate issues that each group addresses.

T he Service Learning Community has

been growing and expanding this year.

We have 18 first-year students and 3

upper-class Service Learning Leaders who have

spent the year getting to know the service

opportunities in Alamance County. We hope to

have a bigger group next year and we will soon be

moving to the new Global Neighborhood!

C ampus Kitchen has made significant progress over the last year. We are one of ten CKP’s

nationally to receive a sub-grant through AARP to focus on senior nutrition. We have

collaborated with Alamance County Community Services Agency, providing take home meals

to older adults participating in a subsidized meal program. We have more than doubled the number of

meals produced for our community partners, averaging around 180 meals each week. Our partnership

with the Environmental Studies program has strengthened with the expansion of Loy Farm, and our

involvement with the Elon Community garden remains strong.

T he Downtown Center for

Community Engagement

located on E. Davis street in

downtown Burlington, opened March 8

and serves as an outreach office for the

KCSLCE and office for The Village Project,

a program through the School of

Education. The building provides office

space and conference space for campus

members and local non-profits,

government and volunteer groups. This

location will support the expansion of

community programs and partnerships.