The Princeton chapter of the American Red Cross coordinates and runs blood drives for the Red Cross several times throughout the year.

Project Leaders: Ingrid Nilsson ([email protected]), Kiran Biddinger ([email protected])

Community Partner: Arm in Arm

Project Description: Students will volunteer at the food pantry in the basement of 61 Nassau St (i.e., on campus!). Typical volunteering activities include assembling bags of food for those in need, assisting with logistics, and engaging with food recipients. 

Project: Ballet & Books 

Project Leaders: Brooke McCarthy ([email protected]) and Isabelle Clayton ([email protected])

Community Partner: Princeton YMCA 

Project Description: 

Project: Bedside DJ

Project Leaders: Daniel Asika ([email protected]), Jon Afowork ([email protected])

Community Partner: Compassus

The Princeton chapter of Best Buddies hosts monthly on campus events at which community members with intellectual disabilities and Princeton students hang out and participate in fun activities

Project Leaders: Nadia Makuc ([email protected]) and Elijah Patterson ([email protected])

Community Partner: YoungLives

Project: Compassus 

Project Leaders:    Avery Fuller [email protected] 

                              Trixie Okeye [email protected] 

Community Partner:  Compassus

Project Description:

CONTACT is a Student Volunteers Council service project whose volunteers answer phone calls for a local crisis hotline and the national suicide hotline.

We teach English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) classes to adult immigrants at varying English fluency levels in Trenton and on campus. 

Project Leaders: Kelly Kim ([email protected]), Christopher Li ([email protected]), Andy Zhang ([email protected])

Community Partner: Mount Carmel Guild, ArminArm, Franklin Food Bank, Raritan Pantry

Project Leaders: Liv Yang ([email protected]) and Suthi Navaratnam-Tomayko ([email protected])

Community Partner: Girls on the Run New Jersey East

Project Description: Volunteers go to a local elementary school once or twice a week to coach regularly scheduled Girls on the Run practice, a program designed to empower girls through running.

Project Leaders: Inwoo Shin ([email protected]), Lina Lyssia Abtouche ([email protected])

Community Partner: Habitat for Humanity

Project Description: 

Volunteers help to provide affordable housing opportunities for families in need by helping to build houses on-site or participating in donation efforts to expand Habitat for Humanity’s efforts. 

Project: HJA Health Connections

Project Leaders: Megan Santamore ([email protected]), Venezia Garza ([email protected]), Emma Petzold ([email protected]) and Mary Kate Cloonan ([email protected])

Community Partner: Zahera Leacock

Kidney Disease Screening and Awareness provides free kidney health screenings and health education to local communities.

Volunteers support the Loaves and Fishes Community of the Diocese of Trenton by serving meals twice a month. 

Volunteers with PMPMC commit to one weekly three-hour shift in one of the units at the Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center (e.g. emergency room, pediatrics, neurology).

The Petey Greene Program supplements education in prisons by preparing volunteers, primarily college students, to provide free, quality tutoring to support the academic achievement of incarcerated people.

Project Leaders: Ada Metaxas ([email protected]), Venezia Garza ([email protected])

Community Partner: Maplewood Senior Living Facility

Project Description:

Princeton Disability Awareness Club (PDAC) plans a biannual carnival to bring students with disabilities to campus for a Carnival event with foods, games, and performances.

Work with the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad to serve the town of Princeton.

Brings together musicians from Princeton with local nursing homes, assisted living homes, and hospice communities.

Project Leader: Vinayak Menon ([email protected])

Community Partner: New Jersey Harm Reduction Coalition (NJHRC)

Project Description (what do volunteers do with the community partner): 

Project: Solidaridad Central Jersey Student Wing

Project Leaders: Annie Kim ([email protected]), Isabelle Embden ([email protected])

Community Partner: Solidaridad Central Jersey Pro Se Clinic

Project Description: 

Special Olympics Rowing trains adult athletes with disabilities in boats and on indoor rowing machines during a normal school year with an end-of-the-year competition.

Special Olympics Skating helps to make ice skating accessible and fun for skaters of all abilities.

TigerTAILS is a Student Volunteers Council service project which organizes volunteer groups to go to a local animal organizations to help with whatever they need.  Activities might be anything from socializing animals; care, cleaning, and maintenance of facilities, to working adoption sites, or making blankets.    Our volunteer groups help the shelter maintain a clean and comfortable environment for the animals with the goal of attracting potential owners and placing each and every animal into a loving home. 

The Trenton Circus Squad is dedicated to building a close relationship between Princeton University and the Trenton Circus Squad through tutoring, mentoring, and a collaborative sharing of circus-arts related skills.

Project Leaders: Isabelle Embden ([email protected])

Community Partner: WorkWell

Project Description:

Workwell works with previously incarcerated individuals to equip them with job and life skills, assisting them in their journey as returning citizens. The vision is to provide participants with mentorship and support to strengthen our community. Hopefully, participants can leave the program with a steady job and life. 

Connect Princeton students with students in Trenton to provide 1-1 tutoring.