Albion has seven student organizations devoted to service: Alpha Phi Omega, Best Buddies, Habitat for Humanity, Service Project Appalachia, STRIVE, Student Volunteer Bureau, and Wayfarers International Group for Service.

Additionally, you can search for volunteer opportunities through our on-line database.

Alpha Phi Omega
Alpha Phi Omega is a nationally recognized co-ed service fraternity. Students are eligible to join anytime after their fall semester freshmen year. All new members must go through a pledge period to learn about APO and complete a pledge project. The fraternity stresses friendship, leadership and service. All members are expected to attend one recruitment event, one brotherhood event, complete a minimum of 20 hours of service per semester, and pay dues each semester. Members are able to fulfill service hour requirements through APO programs and community events. APO meets weekly on Sunday evenings. Meetings are mandatory.
Contact-Trisha Hughes or David Goodyear

Best Buddies
Best Buddies is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to match college students and members of the community who have intellectual disabilities in one-on-one friendships. Members make a commitment to spend time with their buddies on a weekly basis in addition to attending monthly group outings. Best Buddies is rewarding in that its members have the opportunity to truly make a difference in the life of another person. Many of the community buddies have few other friends. These friendships boost buddies self-esteem in addition to making them feel special. College students gain a friend and a better understanding of how life is for those people who have intellectual disabilities. Contact- Lauren Lebioda

Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity is an international non-profit organization that provides housing for economically disadvantaged families. Albion College campus chapter is completely run by students guided by community members and its affiliate, Battle Creek. Houses are built in Albion every other year. When a house is not being built, family selection process is taking place, the chapter is raising money for future use, and students take part in other community builds throughout Michigan. There are two separate sectors of the chapter, the executive board and the volunteer pool. The executive board holds weekly meetings where they take care of finances, coming up with fundraising ideas, coordinate builds, and take care of family relations. The volunteer pool meets at the beginning of the year to discuss the vision behind Habitat for Humanity and recruit members for executive board. The volunteer pool only gets the opportunity to work on the work site.
Contact-Trisha Hughes

Service Project Appalachia
Service Project Appalachia provides students with an active and challenging spring break that benefits needy communities. The group spends the fall and winter fundraising to keep our costs down and when spring break rolls around we're off to the Appalachian mountain region. Our main focus is to help low income families by doing light construction work on their homes. We have a wonderful time getting to know not only each other, but the people and communities we visit.
Contact- Dan McQuown

STRIVE
Students Together Raising Integrity, Values, and Excellence (STRIVE) consists of Albion College students and professors who work together throughout the year to facilitate and mentor small groups of Albion Middle School students. In this way, a positive community connection is created, as leadership opportunities for middle school students are fostered, and the city of Albion is enhanced.
Contact-Megan Russell and Colby Albarkat

Student Volunteer Bureau (SVB)
The Student Volunteer Bureau is a group of students on the Albion College campus who all love to volunteer and serve others. The group has no membership requirements other than come to meetings when you can and have a great time serving the campus, the community of Albion, and beyond! The meetings are usually somewhere around 30 to 45 minutes and are on Tuesday nights at 9 pm in Olin room 112. At meetings, the presidents present the various upcoming opportunities to volunteer and serve. These range from making Christmas cards for the nursing home, to traveling to the children’s cancer ward at a Detroit hospital, to everything in between! Some of the others, but in no way an exhaustive list, include: Trunk or Treat, Crop Walk and Walk for Warmth, Special Olympics, and passing out candy during the Albion Aglow Parade! All are welcome, anyone who wants to continue the volunteer work they did in high school, or individuals who have never volunteered before-this is the group for you. Because as Gandhi said “the best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
Contact-Rachel Lippert or Austin Gee

Wayfarers International Group for Service (WINGS)
Wayfarers International Group for Service (WINGS) actively seeks projects which create the opportunity for our skills to benefit others and for the experience to enrich our lives as well. We are dedicated to the ideal of service and service learning. Intended as an alternative break, the projects undertaken by WINGS will occur outside the boundaries of the United States. These projects may include, but are not limited to, direct aid to people through the building and refinishing of homes to more environmental concerns. WINGS makes one excursion a year, generally during Albion College's spring break. Contact- Allie Trapp or Jenn Smith

How to Search for Volunteer Opportunities

1. Go to eRecruiting http://albion.erecruiting.com
2. Login. Your username is the first part of your email address and then the word albion (e.g. - My name is Joe Briton. My email address is jab15@albion.edu. My username would be jab15albion). Your password until you change it is albion.
   
3. The first time you access the site you will need to complete your profile.
   
4. Once your profile has been completed, or upon subsequent returns to the site, you will be able to search for volunteer opportunities.
   
5. Click on more search options located right next to the blue Search button.
   
6. On the left you will see a box labeled 1-Click Searches.
   
7. Click on Volunteer Opportunities.