Students volunteering with Head Start welcome local children to Colgate.

The Max Shacknai COVE advises 40 student-led, community-based volunteer teams. These teams cover a wide range of issues and help students build an abundance of skills. Approximately 650 students representing about 25 percent of the Colgate population participate regularly in a volunteer team. In Fiscal Year ’14, volunteer teams performed more than 25,000 hours of direct service in the local community.

Outcomes of ongoing service projects:

• Improved SAT scores for local high school students
• Improved academic and social confidence of local children
• More than 1500 individuals served at the soup kitchen and food cupboard annually
• More than 400 fire and EMS emergency calls received annually
• More than 800 hours of Victims of Violence hotline response annually
• Contributions to a cohesive, caring community

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Immersion trip participants visiting Pearson in New York City.

In Fiscal Year ’14, COVE expanded on its mission to cultivate a community of students who will be leaders in social responsibility and community engagement by expanding the new Social Innovation Initiative, designed to support students in the pursuit of innovative, transformative, and sustainable solutions to social problems.

We believe that the problems facing today’s world are more complex than ever before, and solutions require interdisciplinary thinking and cross-sector collaboration. More than 100 students participated in the initiative throughout the year, gaining skills in new ways to positively impact the world. Read more

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