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Community Service Programs
Meet a Need · Explore an Issue · Effect Social Change
The local and regional community provides many ways in which students can get involved! Community Service offers the opportunity to immerse oneself in making a difference while exploring academic, public service and career interests.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Annual Service Events
- Participate in one of these annual service events to learn about the local community.
- MidCoast Volunteers
- Find your own personal niche in the community by working in a local organization.
- Student-led Service Organizations
- Join one of the many student-led organizations addressing important community needs.
Year-long Commitments
- America Reads/Counts
- Earn your federal work study funding by working in local public schools to address issues of literacy and education.
- Bowdoin Mentoring
- Give the gift of a lifetime by investing yourself in the lives and future of local kids.
Intensive Immersion
- Alternative Break Program
- Spend your break working closely with a small group of students immersing yourselves in service through a cultural exchange.
- Pre-Orientation Service Trips
- Begin your public service involvement the day you arrive to campus by participating in a four day community immersion service experience.