Volunteer & Service Learning Opportunities
Volunteer & Service Learning Opportunities
Long-term volunteering and service-learning can be an important part of not only gaining experience in career areas of interest for you, but also as you explore different career paths.
Students achieve the "Serve" and "Engage" components of The IOWA Challenge through connections within the local community and beyond. Whether you choose to get involved through volunteering, academic service-learning, internships or other involvement, you are helping develop your own skills. For more resources on the benefits of doing service and ways to get involved, check out Hawkeye Engage. If you are in Honors, talk to your Honors advisor about whether your service is eligible for honors program credit.
Local/Regional Opportunities
- Meet with your Career Coach for major specific service opportunities related to your career goals - schedule an appointment via MyUI
- Meet with the volunteer advisor for personalized advising for individuals and for student groups on connecting with non-profits and community partners for volunteering & service
- Search for opportunities and track your volunteer hours on the UI Volunteer Portal
- Handshake
- Pomerantz Career Center’s online recruiting database exclusively available to UI students.
- Search for volunteer options and internships in non-profits from organizations targeting UI students and recent graduates.
- Talk to Academic Advisors for course recommendations that include service components
- Meet with a Study Abroad advisor to discuss programs that involve service
- Hawkeye Service Breaks for alternative breaks that involve service learning, social justice and community building
- UI Hospitals and Clinics College Student Volunteers
- Students volunteers must follow established application process and associated deadlines. Advanced planning is required.
- Department of Social Work: Local Volunteer Opportunities
- Volunteer Center of Johnson County
- UI Women's Resource and Action Center
- Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service
- Service Year Alliance
- Compeer
National/International Opportunities
- National Historic Sites, Parks, & Forests
- Service Year Alliance
- Peace Corps
- Idealist
- Great Nonprofits
- Volunteer Match
- National Campus Compact
Finding Transportation
No Car? No Problem! There are plenty of great opportunities close to campus and more throughout the Iowa City/Coralville area. Public transportation is a great solution.
- Take the CAMBUS
- Use the Iowa City bus
- Coralville bus schedules and route maps
- Most individual agency listings on the United Way's Volunteer Center of Johnson County website provide mapping to street addresses, directions, and bus stop information.
Resources for Service Careers
The below list is a great start but not all encompassing. Consider the gap year resources as well as the career community pages for Helping & Counseling, Law & Public Service, and Health & Wellness.