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Tribes / Territories Sector Service-Learning Success Stories

The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse knows what great work you do and we want others to know, too. Please send us stories and photos of your service-learning successes.

  • Kapiolani Community College Helps Shelter Hawaii's Homeless (A Learn and Serve America Grantee)
    Over 70 students from Kapiolani Community College honored the spirit of Dr. King by proving a much-needed service to a struggling community—Hawaii's rising homeless population. KCC’s service-learning team partnered with Hawai’i Helping the Hungry to Have Hope (H-5) to convert an old tour bus into a temporary homeless shelter, as part of the Evans Bus Project. The new mobile...
    HE Sector
    Tribes / Territories Sector
  • Military Buildup Community Forum with GCC's Criminal Justice and Social Sciences Students
    The Military Buildup Community Forum is a service-learning project coordinated by GCC's Criminal Justice and Social Sciences students. This year-long endeavor started when Fall 2008 students surveyed the public to find what they considered major concerns facing our island community. The impending military buildup in reference to the relocation of U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam ranked...
    Tribes / Territories Sector
  • Seniors get Hi-Tech with Help from High School Students
    Southern High School Marketing students spent some time teaching the elderly at the Guma Trankilidat Senior Care Home various ways to use technology to assist them in their everyday lives. Students shared their knowledge of the Microsoft programs. Students demonstrated how to use the Excel program in creating a general ledger for tracking their income. Microsoft Word was used for writing...
    Tribes / Territories Sector
  • Leadership Students Reconnecting with Native Community (A Learn and Serve America Subgrantee)
    Does service learning support and boost academic achievement? This is a question that educators and administrators seek to answer—intrinsically, those teachers who participate in service learning know that it does, but finding solid, black and white evidence to document that fact is sometimes difficult. But for Navajo students of the STAR School, service learning also reconnects them to...
    CBO Sector
    Tribes / Territories Sector
  • Studying History by Studying People: What You Can't Learn in Textbooks (A Learn and Serve America Subgrantee)
    Student quotes: "It is important that people tell their stories. Older people have stories and we can learn a lot from them that we can’t learn in textbooks…it opens your eyes to things you’re never going to experience." -- Tina Chandler Sophomore Windward High School. "I used to think that history was a big picture thing. But now I realize that it impacts...
    K-12 Sector
    Tribes / Territories Sector
  • 2008 Summit on Indigenous Service Learning: Service Learning and Storytelling a Native Education Model
    On April 30, 2008 - May 3, 2008, the Center for Service Learning hosted a second conference entitled the 2008 Summit on Indigenous Service Learning: Service Learning and Storytelling a Native Education Model. This 3 day conference was attended by more than over 90 people from all over the US including from as far as Hawaii, South Dakota, Montana. One of the highlights of the event was the place-...
    HE Sector
    Tribes / Territories Sector