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Current Sites
Goucher collaborates with more than 30 Baltimore-area schools and community organizations – environmental groups, safe houses, literacy programs, medical facilities – creating a wide variety of opportunities for a mutually enriching learning experience. New projects and partnerships are in the works. Contact the Service-Learning Department for the latest.
Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
6600 York Road, Suite 100
410-377-6270
Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay is a regional organization that fosters and builds partnerships to restore the Chesapeake Bay. The Alliance creates capacity and opportunity for citizens to participate in policy-making and restoration activities throughout the Bay watershed. Volunteers might work on the quarterly meeting of the Citizen's Advisory Committee or other policy-related activity.
Aunt Hattie's Place
4403 Maine Avenue
410-367-2472
Aunt Hattie's Place is a wrap-around foster-care house for adolescent boys.
Baltimore Child Abuse Center
2315 St. Paul Street, Sixth Floor
410-396-5165
Baltimore Child Abuse Center’s mission is to minimize the trauma children and their families experience during a sexual-abuse investigation. Interviews of children are conducted by psychologists one on one. These interviews are watched via closed-circuit TV in a separate room by a team of professionals (child protection services worker, police detectives, assistant state's attorney). The Goucher volunteer serves as facilitator, sitting in the viewing room with the professionals and taking verbatim notes of the child’s interview. Other responsibilities include greeting the family and professionals, assembling the parties for the professional interview and the parent interview, preparing the paper work needed prior to the interview, and assembling the resulting case file.
Baltimore County Department of Social Services
6401 York Road
Contact: Deborah Ward
Phone: 410-853-3021
E-mail: dward3@dhr.state.md.us
Baltimore County Department of Social Services runs a variety of programs to help individuals and families.
Baltimore Reads
1010 Park Avenue, Suite 100
410-752-3595
Baltimore Reads provides one-on-one tutoring with adults working toward their GEDs. The organization also sponsors reading programs with elementary schools.
Baltimore Urban Garden with Students (BUGS)
802 S. Caroline Street
410-685-0295 x202
Baltimore Urban Garden with Students (BUGS) is a new Living Classrooms afterschool program at Johnstown Square Elementary School. This project involves Goucher students as mentors for at risk elementary school students in Fells Point. Innovative topics for mentoring include, business, arts & crafts, gardening, cooking/nutrition.
Civic Works
2701 St. Lo Drive
410-366-8533
Civic Works is a youth-service corps that provides critical community services that would not otherwise exist, while enhancing the work, education, and citizenship skills of young people. Main programs include: AmeriCorps, America Reads, YouthBuild, vacant house board-up, vacant lot conversion, and restoration of Clifton Mansion.
Common Senses Inc.
Maryland School for the Blind, 3561 Taylor Avenue
443-310-4391
Common Senses Inc. creates programs for youth with and without sensory disabilities to interact and learn from each other through athletic, social, and community-based activities. Community education on deaf and blind issues is provided, as well as avenues for all youth to realize their abilities and build self-confidence through their own actions.
Don Miller House
York Road and Coldspring Avenue
410-576-5070
Don Miller House, run by the AIDS Interfaith Residential Services, is a group house for approximately five persons living with AIDS. The facility has recently been expanded to include an additional house next door with capacity for another five persons. Responsibilities might include helping out with household chores and spending time with the residents.
EBLO (Education Based Latino Outreach)
606 S. Ann Street in Fells Point
410-563-3160
EBLO (Education Based Latino Outreach) needs volunteers for their tutoring and afterschool programs.
Family Tree
2108 N. Charles Street
410-889-2300
Family Tree volunteers work to educate and counsel parents and caregivers who are under stress, nurture children, help fathers become more involved in their children’s lives, plan fund-raisers and more. Some volunteer opportunities have an age requirement of 21 years of age. Volunteers work at programs in Baltimore City and County, Harford, Anne Arundel, Howard and Prince George’s Counties. (24-Hour Family StressLine, a crisis and referral hotline, is available at 1-800-243-7337).
Franciscan Center
101 West 23rd Street
410-467-9045
Franciscan Center is an emergency outreach center offering food, clothing, counseling, and emergency services to those in need.
Greater Homewood Community Corporation
3503 North Charles Street
410-261-3502
Greater Homewood Community Corporation serves as an umbrella organization for 40 Baltimore City neighborhoods working to improve their quality of life. Volunteers might work on such projects as re-use of vacant lots, parental involvement in schools, and the Jones Falls Valley Master Plan.
Hampden Family Center
1104 W. 36th Street in Hampden
410-467-8710
Hampden Family Center runs afterschool programs that include tutoring and game-playing. The programs run Monday through Thursday, 3:30-5:30. A weekly commitment is necessary.
Hampton National Historic Site
535 Hampton Lane
Towson
410-823-1309
Hampton National Historic Site offers programs that might place a Goucher student in a Georgian mansion with landscaped grounds and gardens, or any of its remarkable outbuildings, including original slave quarters, barns and farmhouse. Students will work as tour guides. They will need to attend a training session, as well as do research and gain proficiency in topic.
HARBEL Community Organization
5807 Harford Road
410-444-2100
HARBEL Community Organization is a nonprofit based in the northeast area of Baltimore City. It is an umbrella organization composed of neighborhood and business associations, churches, schools, service organizations, and institutions. Its purpose is to unite organizations in order to define and solve problems common to the community, and to provide a forum for community improvement. HARBEL also runs a substance-abuse treatment center for adolescents and adults, and programs to help citizens buy homes.
Heroes Inc.
Boys & Girls Club at 1400 Fuselage Avenue
Middle River
410-812-2231
Heroes Inc. is an afterschool mentoring program for at-risk youth (at the moment, boys 13-17, but it's expanding). Its focus is to provide support, engaging them in character-building activities and encouraging them to stay in school. Mentors help with homework and engage in other group activities of their choice.
Hispanic Apostolate
430 S. Broadway (3rd floor)
410-522-2668
Hispanic Apostolate provides a range of services for the Spanish-speaking people in the community - English classes, health programs, women's support groups, legal assistance, and job referral. Work would depend on individual skills and experience and on the service needs of the agency.
House of Ruth
2201 Argonne Drive
410-554-8449
House of Ruth offers emergency shelter, transitional housing, advocacy, legal assistance and counseling for battered women and their families. Batterers intervention programs are offered as well.
Jewish Museum of Maryland
15 Lloyd Street
410-732-6400
Jewish Museum of Maryland volunteers and docents give tours of exhibits and historic synagogues in Baltimore. Training is provided and work on special events is also possible for those who are interested. Hours are available during the week.
Lemmel Middle School Afterschool Program
2801 Dukeland Avenue
Contact: Jennifer Bess
Phone: Goucher extension 6483
Lemmel Middle School Afterschool Program involves Goucher students as mentors for a group of approximately 20 seventh grade students from Lemmel Middle School in West Baltimore. The goal of this program is to expose the seventh graders to the range of possibilities available to them in the future and to encourage them to pursue their interests and dreams. The Goucher volunteer will develop a mentoring relationship with a student. The specifics of each visit will be determined by the Goucher site coordinators. Days to be determined. 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
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Lutheran Campus Ministry ESL Tutoring Program
7909 York Road
410-321-4484
Lutheran Campus Ministry ESL Tutoring Program works with students who speak English as a second language, tutoring math and reading during the day. A weekly commitment is suggested.
Moveable Feast
3242 Eastern Avenue
410-327-3420
Moveable Feast (formerly Maryland Community Kitchen) prepares and delivers meals to persons who are homebound with AIDS.
My Sister's Place
123 or 111 West Mulberry Street
410-727-3523
My Sister's Place is a day shelter for homeless women and children; My Sister's Place Lodge provides training and case management in a residential setting to help homeless, mentally-ill women return to permanent housing and self-sufficiency.
National Student Partnerships - Baltimore
National Student Partnerships (NSP) is the nation's only year-round, student-led volunteer service organization that links people in need with the resources and opportunities necessary to become self-sufficient. NSP operates a national network of drop-in resource centers, staffed by student volunteers from area colleges and universities. Working one-on-one with low-income community members (clients), NSP volunteers provide intensive on-site and referral services, which enable clients to achieve their goals. On-site services generally include making resumes, looking for jobs or housing, making a budget, applying for public benefits, providing referrals to other service agencies, and helping solve other problems in the client's life. For more details call the Site/AmeriCorps*VISTA Coordinator at 410-235-4585.
North Baltimore Center
6999 Reisterstown Rd.
410-585-0593
North Baltimore Center uses collaborative teams to meet the needs of families with children in need of mental health care. Volunteers might work in the afterschool therapy program focusing on life-skills, or help with specific small-group therapy, or serve as academic tutors. Training and supervision will be provided. Fingerprinting and a background check are necessary.
Our Daily Bread
410-659-4016
Our Daily Bread serves breakfast and lunch to needy and homeless individuals and families 365 days a year. Volunteers serve in the kitchen or the cafeteria, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. daily. Students should schedule ahead of time.
Project PLASE
Downtown Baltimore
Contact: Piper-Leigh Daniels
Phone: 410-837-1400
Project PLASE provides transitional and permanent housing and services to homeless adults, concentrating on those with AIDS, addictions, and mental illnesses. Volunteers cook, clean, and enjoy opportunities to engage in creative projects with the residents.
St. Ambrose Center
Since 1972 St. Ambrose has been a focal point of the Southern Park Heights community in Baltimore City, working with the community to improve the lives of low-income individuals, families, and children. Each year, the Center reaches more than 40,000 persons with its broad scope of services. St. Ambrose offers an extensive variety of comprehensive, community-based day and evening programs and services. While helping to meet basic human needs is a vital part of the St. Ambrose mission, its principal focus is to provide resources to help individuals become self-sufficient, realize their potential, and achieve their life goals. For more details call the Volunteer/Resource Coordinator at 410-225-0870.
St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center
321 East 25th Street
410-366-8362
St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center is a full-service housing aid center with advocacy and assistance programs for low- and moderate-income families. The center also assists in the development of vacant houses, and with other neighborhood planning. Volunteers might work as counselors or in the legal department, which does advocacy work.
St. Joseph's Medical Center
7601 Osler Drive
410-337-1477
St. Joseph's Medical Center works closely with each applicant to set up a volunteer experience that will be mutually beneficial.
Timothy House
20 Dunvale Road
Towson
410-828-7185
Timothy House is an affordable apartment community for the elderly. Volunteer opportunities include help at meals, friendly visits, shopping, etc. Hours vary, but needs are primarily Mondays through Fridays, with some weekend days.
Turn Around
401 Washington Avenue, Suite 300
410-377-8111
Turn Around offers counseling and services for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence, as well as educational programs in the community.
Women's Housing Coalition
119 East 25th Street
410-235-5782
Women's Housing Coalition provides housing and services for homeless women and families in Baltimore City. The organization is grounded in grassroots and advocacy issues. Volunteers might work on a range of projects, and interact with a number of other agencies and services. Bennett House is a new, federally funded shelter with single occupancy apartments and supportive services for 30 very-low-income disabled women.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
410-825-3552
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom seeks to achieve social, economic, and political justice throughout the world. Volunteers work on specific projects to be determined.