Community Engagement and Service-Learning
Drake's commitment to community engagement and service-learning is representative of our long-standing history of involvement and partnership with the Des Moines community. The commitment fulfills our historic mission, and enhances teaching, advising, research, scholarship, outreach, and the University community as a whole. As demonstrated by our inspiration statement, "Together we transform lives and strengthen communities", we seek to be an engaged university that prepares the next generation of civic minded professionals. Help us keep this pursuit alive and thriving with a financial gift!
Gift Designation Options
Here are the options for designating your donation:
Support Student Scholarships: The Engaged Citizen Corps Fund
Drake’s Engaged Citizen Corps engages first-year students in the community through service to non-profit organizations focused on issues of affordable housing, poverty, youth development and more! Your contribution supports a scholarship that allows 10+ students to participate more fully in their journey to becoming Civic Minded Professionals and adds capacity to local organizations. Students are selected through a competitive application process managed by the Office of Community Engaged Learning.
Support Student Experiences: Service-Learning Experience Fund
A gift to this fund supports mini-grants to support academic service-learning and co-curricular service-learning projects, civic engagement and social justice programming initiated by students.
Support Student Travel: The Doug Allen Service-Learning Travel Fund
A gift to this fund provides financial assistance to undergraduate students participating in service learning travel experiences including, but not limited to domestic and international service-learning travel seminars, alternative break trips, community-based research and attending regional and national civic engagement conference.
If you live outside the U.S. please please contact Pam Pepper at pam.pepper@drake.edu for more information on how to make an online gift. Thank you.