Annual Service Events
Fall Events
Pre-Orientation Service Program
The Pre-Orientation Service Program (POSP) offered each August gives new students the opportunity to experience a week of service and collaboration with the local community. Held over 4 days before new student orientation, 30 new students who are selected for POSP can connect both with community members and upper-class students through a four different service options.
Landis Service Fair
The Landis Service Fair showcases our community partner organizations where various programs are held each week. Interested students are invited to talk with representatives from numerous organizations about on-going service opportunities happening throughout the academic year!
Miller-Keystone Blood Drive
Lafayette students, faculty, and staff can schedule a one-hour appointment to donate blood. Please be advised that all donors must now present a valid ID (federal, state, county, city, municipality, workplace, or school). One donation helps save three lives!!
Make A Difference Day
Lafayette becomes part of a national movement each fall on Make a Difference Day. Students, faculty and staff can spend a Saturday morning or afternoon volunteering at a local community organization. Past projects have included painting, landscaping, and beautification of historic areas.
National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week
As the holiday season approaches each year, Lafayette students are given the opportunity to learn about hunger and homelessness on the local, national, and global level. Various programming such as a food waste demonstration project and a panel led by our homeless neighbors seeks to educate students about hunger and homelessness issues and inform them of what they can do to make change!
Midnight Run
To kick off Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, students can register to pack bagged lunches and deliver them to homeless neighbors living in Philadelphia. Students also distribute winter apparel and blankets that are collected through a new and gently-used clothing drive on campus.
Oxfam Hunger Banquet
The Oxfam Hunger Banquet is an interactive world hunger demonstration held in conjunction with National Hunger and Homelessness Week that illustrates the issue of hunger on a global level. Students learn about hunger here in the United States, hunger as a world issue, and practical ways they can fight hunger in their daily lives.
Holiday Helpers
This on-campus gift drive gives students, faculty and staff the chance to brighten the holiday season for single moms and their children living in Easton. Over 300 gifts are collected and wrapped each year, and then distributed at holiday parties! Students can choose to purchase a gift or volunteer to help sort and wrap the items when they are collected.
Spring Events
Alternative School Breaks
Each year, the Alternative School Break Club coordinates five domestic trips and one international service trip held over interim and spring breaks. All trips take place during the spring semester, although teams are selected early in September. Students work throughout the year to educate themselves and the campus on various social issues including affordable housing, refugee resettlement, poverty, sustainable water systems, and HIV/AIDS.
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program
The Landis Center partners with Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley (CACLV) and Lafayette faculty members to train students for income tax preparation. Students receive IRS certification and volunteer at various sites to provide free tax assistance for families who qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit.
Literacy Day
In conjunction with NEA's Read Across America Story Day, the Landis Center invites youth from the Easton Community to participate in a day of events related to reading. Led by teams of student-run committees, the theme is centered around a different book each year and all activities are implemented by Lafayette student volunteers. To promote reading at home, each child is given a variety of parting gifts, including the book of the year and other school supplies.
Miller-Keystone Blood Drive
Lafayette students, faculty, and staff can schedule a one-hour appointment to donate blood. Please be advised that all donors must now present a valid ID (federal, state, county, city, municipality, workplace, or school). One donation helps save three lives!!
Lafapalooza: Lafayette's National Day of Service
The Landis Center collaborates with a variety of partners to organize various one-time service opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Through a recently developed partnership with the Alumni Affairs Office, the Landis Center has expanded our reaches to 7 cities nationwide! Students, faculty and staff can participate in a local project, while alumni across the country engage in their own cities.
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