Volunteer and Service Learning Center

Our mission at The University of Texas at Austin Volunteer and Service Learning Center (VSLC) is to serve as a catalyst for personal transformation and heightened social engagement by promoting and developing civic-minded leadership and community service involvement. Through the VSLC, the UT campus comes together, collaborating with area partners to create and share service opportunities for students, faculty, staff and community. UT Student Volunteer Board.

The UT Student Volunteer Board (SVB) is an organization of 55 student leaders coordinating service programs involving over 6,000 student volunteers per year. Programs include tutoring in area schools, visiting seniors in nursing homes, serving Austin's hungry and homeless, and supporting area animal shelters. The goal of our programs is to involve students in the community, allowing them to learn more about themselves and civic responsibility.

Project Reach Out

One-day event held each semester, SVB leaders place over 1,000 volunteers and student organizations with over 60 service projects throughout the city.

Youth and Education Programs

Student leaders work with the Austin Independent School District at over eight elementary, middle, and high schools to coordinate service opportunities including tutoring, mentoring, college preparation, and after-school programs.

UT READS

Volunteers encourage interest and develop strong reading skills in children through READ-A-Thons.

Texas FIRST

Student leaders help to integrate college freshmen into the UT and Austin community through the use of volunteering.

Texas STATIC (Students Taking Action To Initiate Change and Awareness in the fight against HIV/AIDS)

Serve as an educational resource for the UT campus and in the community to help spread awareness about and the prevention of HIV/AIDS.

H2O (Hunger and Homeless Outreach)

At least twice a month volunteers battle hunger and homelessness by volunteering at soup kitchens, prepare lunches for the homeless, or collect and inspect food for the hungry.

PAWS of Texas

Volunteers assist local area shelters with animal care as well as fundraise for national charities.

Longhorn Outreach

Student leaders organize weekly volunteer events, open to the entire student body, to promote volunteerism.

UT PLAYS (University of Texas Providing Light for Austin's Youth through Students)

Students volunteer and fundraise for Austin's Children Shelter, benefiting abused and neglected children.

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Project 2009: UT's Day of Service

Noted by the UT Alumni magazine, The Alcalde, the Project is one of UT's "bragging rights", a massive one-day service project where over 2,000 volunteers come out to serve in one Austin neighborhood.

Through partnership with Keep Austin Beautiful, student leaders have coordinated seven annual service days since 1999, involving over 10,000 volunteers and saving the city over $400,000 in community beautification and restoration projects. Project 2008 will concentrate on serving the Montopolis Neighborhood in East Austin and will take place on February 23rd, 2008