The Student Public Interest Research Groups (Student PIRGs) organized events at 30 campuses to serve local communities as part of the nation-wide Day of Service and Remembrance. The day culminated President Obama's Summer of Service with hundreds of organizations holding food drives, volunteering in shelters and otherwise finding ways to help their community. 

The newly-launched New Jersey PIRG Energy Service Corps Program, funded in part by AmeriCorps, worked with the Newark campus of Rutgers University and fraternity Sigma Beta Rho, and the local Project Porchlight to distribute energy efficient light bulbs in local low-income neighborhoods.

In Bloomington, Indiana, Mayor Mark Kruzan joined Indiana Public Interest Research Group (INPIRG) student leaders in launching a campus “Spare Change for Social Change” fundraising drive for the local Hoosier Hills Food Bank. According to the INPIRG press release, "INPIRG has received endorsements from several local businesses and community organizations and is encouraging other student groups on the Indiana University-Bloomington campus to join in the cause." 

At Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona PIRG student leaders organized a local canned food drive and at the University of New Mexico, New Mexico PIRG students worked with the UNM Service Corps and College Democrats to hold a clothing and canned food drive. 
 
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