Service Organization Options

Agapé

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). https://www.safeplaceforyouth.org/

• Dream Catcher of LA. http://www.dreamcatcherla.com/

• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). https://www.nami.org/Home

• Social Justice Learning Institute Produce Hubhttps://sjli.org/program/food-for-thought-produce-pickup/

• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) https://didihirsch.org/services/suicide-prevention/

• Allies https://alliesnj.org/

• El Espejo https://studentaffairs.lmu.edu/activities/centerforserviceandaction/moreserviceandsocialjusticeopportunities/elespejo/

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 focused in domestic violence awareness 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 https://stjosephctr.org/breadandrosescafe/

• Good Shepherd Shelter https://catholiccharitiesla.org/good-shepherd-shelter/

• Girls Inc. https://www.girlsinc.org

• Richstone Family Center https://www.richstonefamily.org/

• 826LA https://826la.org/

• Jenesse Center https://jenesse.org/

Special Events

• Domestic Violence Awareness Month

• Charity Ball in collaboration with Crimson Circle Service Organization. Charity Ball is an annual dance that raises money for a chosen service placement. 

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

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

• St. Columbkille https://www.columbkille.org/

• Al Wooten Jr. Heritage Center https://www.wootencenter.org/

• Midnight Mission https://www.midnightmission.org/

• Grace Hopper S.T.E.M. Academy https://www.gracehopperstemacademy.org/

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, Midnight Mission, and Bread and Roses Cafe.

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 Espérer learn how these two issues intersect and affect each other. We aspire to protect the planet and the people living on it. 

Service Placements

• Venice Learning Garden https://www.thelearninggarden.org/

• Friends of Ballona Wetlands Habit Restoration https://www.ballonafriends.org/

• San Miguel Catholic School https://www.sanmiguelcatholicschool.com/

• Heal the Bay Beach Clean Up https://healthebay.org/

Special Projects

• Human Trafficking Awareness Week is a week of education, empowerment, and solidarity with victims and survivors of human trafficking.

• LMU Garden

• Participate in the annual, international A21 "Walk for Freedom"

Contact Us

Instagram: @lmuesperer
LEO: Espérer Service Organization
Email: esperer.president@gmail.com

Originally established at Marymount College in 1968, Gryphon Circle is a service organization for female-identifying and gender nonconforming students. Gryphon Circle is dedicated to promoting equitable and accessible education as a way to work for social justice. We emphasize intentionality in supporting the people and communities at Loyola Marymount University and the Los Angeles area. Our motto is “Friendship, Love, and Service,” and we integrate these values into everything we do.

Gryphon Circle requires a minimum 2.7 GPA upon application.

Service Placements

• St. Columbkille School https://www.columbkille.org/

• Marycrest Manor https://marycrestculvercity.com/

• 826LA https://826la.org/

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

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

• Guadalupe Homeless Project https://www.proyectopastoral.org/guadalupe-homeless-project

• Juvenile Hall

• Heal the Bay https://healthebay.org/

• Ascot Hills https://www.laparks.org/park/ascot-hills

• Francisco Homes https://thefranciscohomes.org/

• LA LGBT Center https://lalgbtcenter.org/

• St. Jerome Catholic School http://www.st-jeromeschool.org/

Special Projects

Fiesta de Navidad: Ignatians Service Organization plans and executes 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 

Magis

Established in 2003, Magis is a male-identifying and gender non-conforming organization that is built on three essential principles: service, diversity, and spirituality. Magis fulfills these standards by gathering a diverse group of individuals who are dedicated to service and are committed to their growth as a complete person. The organization seeks to develop individuals 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 Espejohttps://studentaffairs.lmu.edu/activities/centerforserviceandaction/moreserviceandsocialjusticeopportunities/elespejo/

- Blessed Sacrament Church https://www.blessedsacramenthollywood.org/

- Venice Family Clinic https://venicefamilyclinic.org/

- Feed the Hungry https://www.feedthehungry.org/

- Safe Place For Youth (SPY) https://www.safeplaceforyouth.org/

Special Projects

- Homelessness Understanding Week

Marians Service Organization is a group of women & gender-nonconforming people 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 enthusiastically embrace the ideals of feminism, and work to create equality for all through service and advocacy. 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. Marians have traditions, for example FemTalks, to specifically ignite this flame in their own members as well.

Service Placements

Jenesse Center https://jenesse.org/
El Espejohttps://studentaffairs.lmu.edu/activities/centerforserviceandaction/moreserviceandsocialjusticeopportunities/elespejo/
Good Shepherd Shelter https://catholiccharitiesla.org/good-shepherd-shelter/

Alexandria House https://www.alexandriahouse.org/

South Central LAMP https://www.southcentrallamp.org/

Special Projects

Women's Herstory Month (March)

Women's Health Week (October)

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 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

• Grass Roots Neighbors https://www.grassrootsneighbors.org/

• St. Francis Center https://www.stfranciscenterla.org/

• Project Angel Food https://www.angelfood.org/

• Produce Pop-Up

• No Us Without You https://www.nouswithoutyou.la/

Special Projects

• Food Justice Week brings the issue of hunger within LA to the LMU community by hosting a campus-wide food drive, raising money for our placements, and hosting advocacy events.

• Food Recovery Network takes excess food from on-campus dining and delivers it to local placements to distribute the food, which limits food waste and provides food for those in need.

Contact Us

Instagram: @sursumcordalmu
LEO: Sursum Corda Service Organization

Email: sursumcorda@lmu.com