Community Service
Murray State University values community service. Take advantage of these community service opportunities to develop your leadership skills.
Local Community Service Opportunities
United Way
United Way is an umbrella organization that offers financial resources to local non-profit organizations such as Red Cross and Needline. This website provides contact information for several non-profit organizations in the Calloway County community.
Nonprofit Leadership Studies
Murray State offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in Nonprofit Leadership Studies. If you enjoy serving others and want to learn more about nonprofit management or outdoor recreation, check out this program! The following webpage provides more details as well as contact information for the program.
Learn more about Nonprofit Leadership Studies
National Community Service Opportunities
Serve
This website is managed by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The purpose of this site is to be an online resource for finding volunteer opportunities in the local communities as well as creating your own.
Volunteers for Prosperity
This website helps skilled American professionals find opportunities with U.S. organizations to support global health and prosperity.
Winrock
Winrock International is a nonprofit organization that works with people in the United States and around the world to empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity, and sustain natural resources.
Financial Service Volunteer Corps (FSVC)
FSVC is a private- public partnership that recruits leading financial, legal, and regulatory experts. These volunteers provide technical assistance to in-country partners and build personal relationships across international borders. This organization鈥檚 goals are to develop central bank capabilities, strengthen commercial banking systems, and build capital markets.
VFP
Founded in 1982, VFP is a nonprofit organization. This organization promotes international voluntary service projects. Through international alliances, this organization works with others to meet community needs and some of the goals of the United Nation鈥檚 Millennium Declaration. This organization offer over 3,000 projects in over 100 countries, including 40 in the United States. Most projects are 2-3 weeks long.
International Community Service Opportunities
SCI
This organization promotes worldwide short term and long term voluntary service to impact social, environmental, and humanitarian issues. SCI has official relations with UNESCO as a partner non-governmental organization.
VFP
Founded in 1982, VFP is a nonprofit organization. This organization promotes international voluntary service projects. Through international alliances, this organization works with others to meet community needs and some of the goals of the United Nation鈥檚 Millennium Declaration. This organization offer over 3,000 projects in over 100 countries, including 40 in the United States. Most projects are 2-3 weeks long.
WWOOF
WWOOF is a worldwide network of organizations that allow volunteers to live and learn on organic properties. WWOOF brings together hosts and volunteers (WWOOFers), helping each other to make a healthier world.
Financial Service Volunteer Corps (FSVC)
FSVC is a private- public partnership that recruits leading financial, legal, and regulatory experts. These volunteers provide technical assistance to in-country partners and build personal relationships across international borders. This organization鈥檚 goals are to develop central bank capabilities, strengthen commercial banking systems, and build capital markets.
ACDI/ VOCA
This organization has 40 years of experience sending professionals overseas as volunteer consultants providing technical assistance with field projects in agribusiness, enterprise development, community development, food security, and financial services.
Winrock
Winrock International is a nonprofit organization that works with people in the United States and around the world to empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity, and sustain natural resources.
Geek Corps
IESC Geekcorps is an international 501漏(3) nonprofit organization that promotes stability and prosperity in the developing world through information and communication technology. Technology experts teach communities how to be digitally independent by expanding private enterprise with innovative, appropriate, and affordable information and communication technologies.
VSO
VSO is the world鈥檚 leading independent international development organization that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. VSO鈥檚 approach involves bringing people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action, and change lives to make the world a fairer place for all.
Art Corps
ArtCorps鈥� mission is to advance social change initiatives by promoting arts and culture as powerful tools to generate cooperative and sustainable work between development organizations and the communities they serve. This organization sends artists to Central America to work with environmental, health, and human rights organizations. During one year residencies, artists use a variety of art forms to bring the organizations鈥� environmental and social messages to life and engage the local communities in their activities.
United Nations Volunteers
UNV is supported by the United Nations and is active in 140 countries. This organization supports the mobilization and organization of volunteers to serve around the world. This organization promotes peace and development throughout the world.
Volunteer Opportunities Abroad
This website provides free and low-cost programs for volunteering abroad.
Volunteer Abroad
This is an all-inclusive website for going abroad including study abroad, volunteer abroad, as well as travel assistance and information.
Global Volunteers
Global Volunteers is a private, nonprofit organization engaging short-term volunteers on micro-economic and human development programs in close partnership with local people worldwide.
*Organizations provided on the following links are not Murray State affiliates. Students are responsible for reviewing program information and details.