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By supporting the Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning your gift  helps us to provide training and opportunities for students to learn public skills, learn and serve in the community, create public projects, and encounter transformative life experiences.  We are committed to developing active citizens as described in our student learning outcomes

DU Community Garden Summer 2009Your donation will support students like Ben Waldman who built an organic community garden that sustains students and community members with safe, fresh produce, and builds bridges across community divides. Or Gergana Agirova, a piano performance major, who developed a musical instrument teaching and mentorship program for immigrant and refugee children, a project based on her own experience and cultural transition of coming to the U.S. from Bulgaria for college. 

To learn more about what our students are doing in the community please visit the CCESL Public Work Portfolio.

Join us in educating, engaging and equiping our future leaders to accomplish tangible, public work that improves the lives of people in our communities.  If you would like to support the Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning, please contact University Advancement at 303.871.2311.

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The Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning would like to thank our generous supporters for all that they do to support our mission and work in Denver and around the globe.

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Anita Spotlight

Anita Spotlight

Reflects on Public Achivement (PA) on Blog

The goal [of PA] is to create a space for students to discover their power to create tangible change in their community. That includes open discussions about social justice issues like privilege and oppression, as well as certain key activities like one-to-ones, "world as it is/world as it should be", "world cafes" and others from the PA handbook

Manuel Del Real

Manuel Del Real

DU Student, Class of 2009 and 2011

Every time I look at the murals, it gives me great pride as an alumnus to be able to see students make a change...Being a coach has also helped me realize I am the mentor that I used to look up to.

Hava Gordon

Hava Gordon

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Last year, I taught a Service Learning FSEM: Youth Cultures: Inequality, Resistance, and Empowerment. This was the first time teaching my FSEM as a service learning class, and it was an amazing experience. With the help of my wonderful Service Learning Associate, Cameron Lewis, our class partnered with The Spot youth center and Rainbow Alley. Both organizations work to empower teens by providing a safe and creative space for low-income, homeless, and LGBTQ youth. FSEM students joined outreach workers at The Spot on night walks around the city, distributing needed items to homeless youth. Students also participated in consciousness-raising workshops at Rainbow Alley, connecting with Rainbow Alley youth through these workshops.