Several student groups are involved in community service, both locally and globally. For some, service is there primary mission. Others blend service into their activities as a way of complimenting their area of focus or of becoming more involved in the local community.
ONE is Americans of all beliefs and every walk of life - united as ONE - to help make poverty history. We are a campaign of over 2.4 million people and growing from all 50 states and over 100 of America's most well-known and respected non-profit, advocacy and humanitarian organizations. As ONE, we are raising public awareness about the issues of global poverty, hunger, disease and efforts to fight such problems in the world's poorest countries. As ONE, we are asking our leaders to do more to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. ONE believes that allocating more of the U.S. budget toward providing basic needs like health, education, clean water and food would transform the futures and hopes of an entire generation in the world's poorest countries.
ONE is nonpartisan; there's only one side in the fight against global AIDS and extreme poverty. Working on the ground in communities, colleges and churches across the United States, ONE members both educate and ask America's leaders to increase efforts to fight global AIDS and extreme poverty, from the U.S. budget and presidential elections to specific legislation on debt cancellation, increasing effective international assistance, making trade fair, and fighting corruption. Everyone can join the fight. The goal of ending poverty may seem lofty, but it is within our reach if we take action together as one. You can start now by joining the ONE Campaign and pledging your voice to the fight against extreme poverty and global AIDS.
National ONE Website
Delta Sigma Pi is a professional fraternity organized to foster the study of business in universities; to encourage scholarship, social activity and the association of students for their mutual advancement by research and practice; to promote closer affiliation between the commercial world and students of commerce, and to further a higher standard of commercial ethics and culture and the civic and commercial welfare of the community.
Delta Sigma Pi was founded in 1907 at New York University: School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance by Harold Valentine Jacobs, Alexander Frank Makay, Alfred Moysello and Henry Albert Tienken. Today, coast to coast, more than 250 chapters and over 200,000 members support the goals and ideals of the Fraternity.
National Delta Sigma Pi Website
With more than 700 chapters at schools around the globe, STAND is the fastest-growing student anti-genocide coalition in the world today. STAND chapters actively organize to prevent and stop genocide wherever and whenever it may occur. In partnership with the Genocide Intervention Network, STAND's long-term goal is to establish a permanent anti-genocide constituency that holds elected officials accountable for doing all that they can to prevent and end genocide.
National STAND Website
The "SVA" is a group of students who are committed to service to the community. SVA members participate in approximately 3-5 service events per month. They are dedicated to the university’s core values of service. SVA not only serves the RWU community but the surrounding communities as well.
SVA Website
Our mission statement is to serve the local community, to further the education of RWU's future teachers through professional experiences, and to develop camaraderie between the RWU School of Education students (and Faculty.)
FTOA Website
To provide enjoyable, educational experience and act as a resource to foster student leadership within our community.
IRHA Website
The Newman Club enriches the quality of life on the Roger Williams campus through community service-oriented programs, combined with spiritual, intellectual, and social activities. The club creates an environment in which members of the University community may explore their relationship with God and the Christian community through liturgy, scriptural reflection, community action and fun.
Newman Club Website
Best Buddies ® is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships and integrated employment. We have a Best Buddies chapter right here on campus.
Best Buddies National Website
The Environmental and Animal Rights Club has been consistantly involved in community service activities. The following are service projects that they have completed recently:
They volunteered at the Barrington Land Conservation Trust for their "Winter Wonderland Workout" at Pic-Wil Nature Preserve. They worked together to remove some large debris (tires, pallets, etc) left behind from farming activities. They also trimmed trails, took out invasive plants and picked up litter and tires washed up along side the property.
They also participated in the RWU Beach Clean Up. They got together to pick up trash at the bottom of Old Ferry, separating out the recyclables and the trash. They plan on doing another one soon.
They also volunteered for Adopt A Turkey. They donate money to sponsor a (live) turkey every Thanksgiving at the Farm Sanctuary in upstate New York.
Finally, they participated in Cats on Campus. "We monitor and maintain feeding the cats on campus with the local organization PawsWatch. In the last three years, we have gotten materials donated and houses and feeding stations built for five different areas on campus. We also educate on the cats and why students should not have them on campus."
If you are interested in joining this group they meet on Mondays at 6pm in the NAB 105 or contact earclub@rwu.edu for more information.
Updated 4/8/08