Loyola Marymount University and Center for Service and Action is home to ten Service Organizations, each with their own unique history, mission and service commitments. Explore below to learn more about each organization, their history and service focus.
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Agapé Service Organization is a group of people of all genders who seek to serve and support those living with mental illnesses. Agapé is built on three essential principles: compassion, courage, and change. Agapé, derived from the Latin word meaning "selfless love," strives to promote the wellbeing of persons, both on and off campus, through service, community engagement, and ending stigmas surrounding mental health.
Service Placements
- Safe Place for Youth (SPY)
- Dream Catcher of LA
- Our Lady of Victory School
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Special Events
- Mental Health Marathon: Agape's annual mental health awareness week that promotes campus awareness of prevalent mental health issues.
- Mental Health Summit: Agape's campus awareness event to promote wellbeing in the spring semester.
Contact Us
Instagram: @lmuagape
LEO: Agapé Service Organization
Email: agapeserviceorganization@gmail.com -
The mission of Belles Service Organization is to inspire civically engaged and empowered female identifying and gender non-conforming students, with and for others. We seek to form meaningful relationships and promote social justice across diverse communities through direct service and involvement. Our values of service, love, and solidarity motivate us in building connections with one another, the University, and the communities we serve.
Service Placements
- St. Joseph's Bread and Roses Café
- Lange Foundation
- Girls Inc.
- Richstone Family Center
Special Events
- Domestic Violence Awareness Month
- Organize and facilitate Charity Ball in collaboration with Crimson Circle Service Organization. Charity Ball is an annual dance which has raised money for St. Columbkille Elementary School in Watts, and St. Joseph's Center in Santa Monica.
Contact Us
Instagram: @lmubelles
LEO: Belles Service Organization
Email: lmubelles@gmail.com -
Creare Service Organization's mission is to act; to create opportunities, and futures for those who need it most. With an emphasis on helping the youth of the community, we stand as role models and mentors for the younger generations. Our goal is to work with children to not only help with their personal needs but to teach the importance of camaraderie, service, and social justice. We also stand as role models for the Loyola Marymount student body and will work to give back to the community that helped us "to create" the futures we ourselves work towards.
Service Placements
- Mar Vista Family Center
- Ascension Catholic School
- 826 LA
- Alma Backyard Farms
Special Projects
Fright Night is a Halloween event where children come to LMU to trick-or-treat, since many of their neighborhoods are not safe to do so in. This event allows the children Creare serves to interact with college students on a college campus.
Contact Us
Instagram: @lmucreare
LEO: Creare Service Organization
Email: crearepresident@gmail.com -
Service, honor, brotherhood, tradition, and faith are the hallmarks of the Crimson Circle. Dating back to 1929, the Circle has always had a tradition of prestigious and diverse membership. Crimson Circle dedicates their time and expresses many outstanding talents that contribute from serving Loyola Marymount University to the greater Los Angeles and World communities in a commitment to social justice. To be a Crimson is to be a man for and with others.
Service Placements
- Urban Compass
- St. Columbkille
- Al Wooten Jr. Heritage Center
- Midnight Mission
Special Projects
- Participate in the annual Special Games held on the LMU campus.
- Bi-annual Blood Drive: In a partnership with the LMU Center for Service and Action, the Crimson Circle organizes the LMU blood drive each semester. Donations go to the
- UCLA Blood and Platelet Center which safeguards the health of over 4 million people in the Western Los Angeles County. LMU consistently gets hundreds of student and faculty donors each year.
- Organize and facilitate Charity Ball with the Belles Service Organization, which has raised money for St. Columbkille Elementary School, Urban Compass in Watts, St. Joseph's Center in Santa Monica, and Good Shepherd Shelter.
Contact Us
Instagram: @crimsoncircle
LEO: Crimson Circle Service Organization
Email: thecrimsoncircle@gmail.com -
Espérer is a service organization that accepts female-identifying and gender non-conforming individuals and is one of the 10 service organizations that make up the Service Organization Community (SOC). We are dedicated to doing service in our community with a focus on advocacy, with a unique dual focus of human trafficking and environmental justice. Together, the members of Esperer learn how these two issues intersect and affect each other.
Service Placements
- Venice Learning Garden
- Southeast Middle School
- San Miguel Catholic School
- Heal the Bay
Special Projects
- Human Trafficking Awareness Week is a week of education, empowerment, and solidarity with victims and survivors of human trafficking.
- LMU Garden
Contact Us
Instagram: @lmuesperer
LEO: Espérer Service Organization
Email: esperer.president@gmail.com -
Gryphon Circle is an honorary women's service organization, originally established at Marymount College in 1968. Our primary mission is to serve people at Loyola Marymount University and the Los Angeles community through educating ourselves and others about education as a social justice issue. Our motto is "In friendship, love and service."
Gryphon Circle is a women's organizations; men will not be considered for membership. Trans women are explicitly welcome in Gryphon Circle, regardless of their gender markers in official university records. Students who identify as non-binary and who are comfortable in a space that has historically centered women shall be considered for membership.
Gryphon Circle requires a minimum 2.7 GPA upon application.Service Placements
- St. Columbkille Elementary School
- Marycrest Manor
- St. Margaret's Center
Special Projects
- Gryphon Games is an annual event in April where children from community partners come to campus for a day of activities and fun.
- Education Month is a month of advocacy events each year that focuses on a different intersectional theme revolving around education.
Contact Us
Instagram: @gryphoncircle
LEO: Gryphon Circle Service Organization
Email: gryphoncirclepresident1968@gmail.com -
Ignatians Service Organization is an all-gender service organization that works together to perform service for the LMU Community and our service placements for the promotion of social justice and the preservation of respect for the whole of the human race. We perform these duties with intentionality, openness of mind, and in solidarity with our LMU service counterparts for the purpose of displaying the objective of this organization. Ignatians has a broad scope of community partners, allowing members to affirm the dignity of people through a variety of types of service.
Service Placements
- 186th St. School
- Guadalupe Homeless Project
- The Amanda Foundation
- Central Juvenile Hall
- Marycrest Manor
- Francisco Homes
- Beach Clean Up
Special Projects
Fiesta de Navidad: Ignatians Service Organization plan and execute Fiesta de Navidad, an annual commemoration of the relationship between Dolores Mission and Loyola Marymount University. Fiesta de Navidad honors this special bond by providing a night of togetherness surrounding a tradition that is dear to every Jesuit institution: celebrating Christmas.
Contact Us
Instagram: @lmu_ignatians
LEO:Ignatians Service Organization
Email: iggiepresident@lmu.edu -
Established in 2003, Magis is a male organization that is built on three essential principles: service, diversity, and spirituality. Magis fulfills these standards by gathering a diverse group of men who are dedicated to service and are committed to their growth as a complete individual. The organization seeks to develop men who strive toward the Jesuit ideal of the magis: a thirst for the more, for the greater good, and for a life-long disposition to a fuller service of God and others following the Jesuit motto Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, "for the greater glory of God."
Service Placements
- El Espejo
- Blessed Sacrament Church
- Verbum Dei High School
- Good Shepherd Shelter
- Safe Place for Youth (SPY)
Special Projects
- Homeless Understanding Week
- 48 Hour Walk
Contact Us
Instagram: @lmumagis
LEO: Magis Service Organization
Email: magispresident@gmail.com -
Marians Service Organization is a group of women dedicated to the betterment of women and children. Through service and activism, Marians work to better both the LMU community and local Los Angeles community. Marians specifically embrace the ideals of feminism, and work to create equality for all through service. Marians embody the Jesuit and Marymount spirit of service, and through this service grow as individuals and as feminists. As a collective organization, the women of Marians embrace the flame of passion for justice, and work to ignite this flame in others.
Service Placements
- 186th Street School
- El Espejo
- Good Shepherd Shelter
- Kids Enjoy Exercise Now (KEEN) LA
- Midnight Mission
Special Projects
- Women's Herstory Month
- Women's Health Week
Contact Us
Instagram: @mariansserviceorg
LEO: Marians Service Organization
Email: mariansserviceorg@gmail.com -
Founded in 1992, Sursum Corda is one of LMU's four all-gender service organizations. We are committed to the promotion of social justice, through active service and advocacy. Our service, focused on hunger and food justice, is expressed in companionship with Los Angeles communities and challenging food systems on-campus, locally, and globally. This focus inspires us to grow in our understanding of the intersections of social injustice. We hope to build an authentic community, which engages in self-reflection and encourages passion among its members. Our name, Sursum Corda, is Latin for "lifting hearts." We strive to lift our hearts in service, in hopes of being people who stand with and for all people.
Service Placements
- Guadalupe Homeless Project
- Feed the Hungry
- St. Francis Center
- St. Joseph Center
- Boys and Girls Club Mar Vista
- Safe Place for Youth (SPY)
- Good Shepherd Shelter
- Beach Clean Up
Special Projects
- Hunger Awareness Week brings the issue of hunger within LA to the LMU community by promoting CSA's Hunger Banquet, hosting a campus-wide canned food drive, raising money to donate through HAW t-shirt sales, and hosting educational events.
- ABC Dance is an annual "Anything But Clothes" Dance, raises money for a Sursum placement and collects clothing donations
- Food Recovery Network
Contact Us
Instagram: @sursumcordalmu
LEO: Sursum Corda Service Organization
Email: sursumcordalmu@gmail.com