Volunteer Opportunities

Service is an integral part of the Berea College experience and many organizations and departments on campus make volunteering a main focus. Listed below are organizations and departments that have opportunities for students to get involved through volunteerism.

CELTS provides a headquarters for several student-led service programs and promotes faculty engagement in service-learning courses with community partners.  CELTS offers faculty workshops in service-learning as well as mini-grants for service-learning projects, some of which have focused on sustainability, including the following:

The Loyal Jones Appalachian Center is committed to preserving the cultural and environmental heritage of the Appalachian region.  They offer academic courses in Appalachian Studies as well as a summer institute and internship in Entrepreneurship for the Public Good.

Entrepreneurship for the Public Good works with students to start and develop environmental and sustainable initiates in the Appalachian region. In past summers, students have assisted the City of Berea in gaining the Kentucky Trail Town designation. Students have also interned with Grow Appalachia and the Kentucky Environmental Foundation to engage sustainable environmental issues in Appalachia for the local Habitat for Humanity chapter.