Kernodle Center for Civic Life

From protecting the environment to working with young children, 14 sophomores in the Social Entrepreneurship Scholars Program this semester are learning the challenges – and joys – of organizing programs for local agencies. And they hope to share their lessons with the next cohort of scholars selected from applications now being accepted.

Turns out that it doesn’t take that much time to prepare meals for 10,000 people in some of the most impoverished areas of the world. Ninety minutes, to be exact, when you have dozens of students, faculty and alumni teaming up on a warm fall morning as part of the Stop Hunger Now project.

Elon University’s opportunities for service are starting early for a dozen incoming freshmen this week as part of PreSERVE, a first-year summer experience that includes work on a Habitat for Humanity home in Alamance County.

The group traveled to Bay St. Louis, Miss., May 23-27 as part of Elon's ongoing efforts to assist the Gulf Coast community. The group worked on seven houses, including painting and cleaning debris, and visited with families devastated by the storm. The trip was Elon's first young alumni service trip, which will be offered in the future. Mandie Rose Danielski ‘02 of Brooklyn, N.Y., traveled to Bay St. Louis and wrote about her experience.

Six students will travel to the remote highlands of central Morocco this month as part of a service trip to tutor children learning English and to observe firsthand how residents of the impoverished region are developing profitable cottage industries.

A group of Elon University students returned from Cambodia last week after a “scouting mission” of sorts to develop an annual service program that will take volunteers each summer to the southeast Asia nation.