The Center for Service and Action holds several events throughout the academic year designed to engage Loyola Marymount University students with the greater Los Angeles community. Find out how you can make a difference and make some friends along the way.
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Service Retreat is open for all undergraduate and graduate students. The Service Retreat is a combined effort of Campus Ministry and the Center for Service and Action. Open to all students, the Service Retreat provides an opportunity to gather and reflect on the essential connection between faith and justice.
Through direct experience, social analysis and theological reflection this retreat becomes a profound experience of the personal and social transformation that is made possible when we engage in community service as critical thinkers living in faith and solidarity. Combining service and reflection in this way invites our students to spend a weekend as true contemplatives in action.
Note: Retreat begins Thursday at 3:45pm. Afternoon classes on Thursday may conflict. There are no classes scheduled for Friday.
The weekend will consist of living for a weekend on Skid Row, a well known area in Los Angeles with one of the largest homeless populations in the United States. Midnight Mission and Cardinal Manning will be providing secure sleeping arrangements for all retreat participants. The weekend will be a mix of service and conversations about issues surrounding homelessness.
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Center for Service and Action together with Crimson Circle sponsor two Blood and Bone Marrow Drives every academic year. Every pint collected saves three lives so please consider donating to this important cause.
As we continue to face a critical blood shortage, there are no words to capture how important the gift of donation is. I hope that you will spread the word in your areas to any interested students and colleagues.
Perks of donating include:
- Free movie ticket
- 1 hour of service for Service Org members
- Pint for a pint: eligible 21+ donors will receive a voucher for a free drink at The Loft
Who can donate?
If you're healthy, at least 17 years old and weigh 110 pounds you can donate blood.
Upcoming Blood Drives
February 21st & 22nd, 10am-3pm in St. Robert's Auditorium. Sign up here!
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The Advocacy Teach-in is an annual event hosted by the Pam Rector Center for Service and Action that brings LMU students, faculty, and staff together for a day-long social justice-oriented learning experience. This student-led event invites participants to attend workshops that focus on different issues and gathers for a keynote presentation by a leader in advocacy work. The Advocacy Teach-In serves as an opportunity for the LMU community to learn more about social justice.
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The mission of Special Games is to bring together the special needs community of Los Angeles and the Loyola Marymount University community for a day of fun, friendship, and personal growth. There is no experience like Special Games and no other event celebrates the many gifts of the special needs community in quite the same way. Today we continue our goal of fostering love, creating new friendships, and making life-long memories.
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Ignatian Solidarity Network (ISN) promotes social justice leadership and advocacy among students, alumni, and other emerging leaders from Jesuit schools.
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The Community Service Fair is back on campus Thursday, September 8th.
Every year, the Center for Service and Action invites our non-profit organizations to come to campus to recruit volunteers and raise awareness about the local and global social issues their work focuses on. This event is open to staff, faculty and students.
Community partners, to register for your table at the fair, please complete this form: 2022 Community Service Fair
Questions? Contact our office 310.338.2959 or email Jenny Fukunaga at jennifer.fukunaga@lmu.edu