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Community service is as popular as ever with students at Gannon University, where on Saturday they launched a cross-country project called GIVE day that set up opportunities for students and alumni to volunteer in cities from Chicago to Buffalo. GIVE day, whose starting acronym means Gannon’s Invitation to Volunteer Everywhere, had opportunities that ran the gamut from environmental cleanup of public parks and beaches to social services such as building low cost housing and providing food and other articles to homeless people.

Students at Gannon University participated heavily in the programs that took place in Erie, PA, with an estimated one eighth of the student body taking part in the park cleanup program in the morning. Program Coordinator for the Center for Social Concerns Tammy Fritz, who helped organize GIVE day, praised the program as “great way for students to see what’s happening in the community,” and added that the programs themselves yielded real results as “a lot of agencies depend on Gannon to clean up [the area].” In all, the GIVE day program served as a model for Universities attempting to create more opportunities for student-community involvement.

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