University Ministry's Community Action program collaborates with a variety of Bay Area non-profit agencies to provide students with opportunities to serve in their local community. Through these programs, our students honor the Jesuit ideals of being both men and women for others and contemplatives in action. Students witness the daily struggle of people living on the margins of society and are encouraged to ask questions about the systems which perpetuate this suffering.
Days of Service
University Ministry welcomes you to its annual April Action day of service. Every year for this environmentally themed service event, USF faculty, staff, and students work at several sites in the Bay area to provide urban community gardening, clean-up, planting, and beautification services. April Action provides the USF community with opportunities of service that enrich individual's advancement in creating a more humane and just world. Sites this year include Golden Gate Park, June Jordan School of Equity, Bernal Hall, and Friends of the Urban Forest. April Action will take place on Saturday April 13, 2013 from 7:30am to 12:30pm. Participants will meet in front of Gleeson Library (Gleeson Plaza) at 7:30am.
October Outreach is a poverty themed yearly community service event that targets poor and marginalized communities within San Francisco. Every fall semester; USF students, athletes, greeks, and faculty & staff work on several sites within San Francisco to provide service in fighting poverty and hunger. 200 participants volunteered their time to different poverty based organizations throughout San Francisco by packing lunch, preparing and delivering meals, engaging activities for children, building homes, and more. Sites this year included Glide Memorial Church, Saint Vincent De Paul Center, Martin De Porres House of Hospitality, Raphael House, Episcopal Community Center, Sanctuary Shelter and Community Center, Saint Joseph's Family Center, and environmental clean up at Ocean Beach and Golden Gate Park.
Date & Time: Saturday October 13, 2012 from 7:30 am to 12noon
Weekly Volunteer Opportunities
Students meet in UM and take
Muni to Project Open Hand in the tenderloin. They then take a walking
route
delivering meals (provided by POH) to people living with AIDS and senior
citizens in the Tenderloin.
Date: Every Wednesday
Time: 2:30-5:30pm (meet at University Ministry at 2:30pm)
Contact: Robin Abbott, raabbott@usfca.edu
Students have the opportunity to help the San Francisco community by volunteering at the Wellness Center on Fridays from 8:30am to 12:15pm. This volunteer opportunity allows students to be a welcoming presence for the Wellness Center clients as they watch a movie and engage in a reflective discussion afterward. Students will meet at the University Ministry Office at 8:30am and should return to campus around 12:15pm.
If you are interested in this Community Action opportunity, please sign up in the Community Action Volunteer Binder in University Ministry or contact Clare Teixeira at csteixeira@dons.usfca.edu
For further information visit our website or e-mail us um@usfca.edu.
Date:: Fridays from 8:30 am to 12:15 pm
The St. Vincent De Paul Meal Project is on Monday nights at 3:30pm. Volunteers meet in front of the University Ministry Office to take a bus to St. Vincent De Paul. For any further questions contact the University Ministry or Wilita Sanguma
Come get your hands dirty at USF's very own community garden! Students can drop by any time on Fridays between 12 and 4 and lend a hand with garden maintenance.
Where and When: Drop in hours every Friday between 12pm and 4pm at the garden (on Turk between Lone Mountain and the School of Education).
This volunteer program gives USF pre-med students a chance to volunteer at the St. Vincent De Paul Homeless Center Clinic on Tuesday and Thursday nights from 6:00PM -9: 30PM. A women’s only clinic is run once a month on Sunday nights in the same facility. Students help with triage throughout the shelter, take vital signs of patients, shadow patient interviews, ask preceptor questions about diagnosis and assessment plans to organize the paperwork at the end of the night. It is a beneficial platform for volunteers to interact with patients and doctors of the Bay Area.
Please e-mail ucsf5thstreetpremeds@gmail.com for more information or fill out the sign up sheets available in the University Ministry Office.
Watch the video of USF students who volunteer at the clinic
