Community Service

Volunteer With Campus Ministry

Do you remember waving your hand enthusiastically showing your willingness to help? That hand raising gesture so early on in your life demonstrated a willingness to volunteer. Here are some of the reasons why volunteering is so important to you and others:

• To help someone
• To improve the community
• To move from your comfort zone
• To build new relationships
• To enhance your resume and establish community connections

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Twenty-six students and staff traveled to New Orleans to Lend a Hand. Service locations included Common Ground Relief, Youth Rebuilding New Orleans, and Second Harvest Food Bank. Each community service experience is exceptional. Our annual, week-long mission trip to New Orleans in December results in positive, life-changing experiences for students who participate.

Every year Campus Ministry organizes a group of students, faculty and staff to help clean up and beautify nearby York Street. We work with the neighbors tidy up the community garden and the sidewalks.

Through the Adopt a Grandparent Program, students can socialize with adult residents at Mary Agnes Manor, a senior living facility adjacent to the D'Youville campus.

The D'Youville community helps meet the needs of many different agencies and populations in Buffalo. Here are a few:

Friends of the Night People – serve at a local soup kitchen for the poor and homeless
Habitat for Humanity – help build a house in the Buffalo area twice a semester
Meals on Wheels – deliver meals to the house-bound and elderly
Neighborhood Halloween Party – help organize a party for neighborhood children and trick-or-treat fun on campus