Applications for Alternative Summer Breaks are due today!

Alternative Summer Breaks offer a more intensive immersion in non-profit based service learning. Participants are assembled in groups of seven to ten, including two student site leaders, and travel to sites where they will learn and volunteer for the week. Groups often stay in churches, community centers, or synagogues and cooperatively cook their meals. The longer length of the break allows participants to travel to sites on the coasts and all over the nation, learn even more about the diverse and complex issues facing the nation, and develop meaningful relationships with their groups. Breakers select from a wide range of issues and organizations on their application. These issues include public health, the environment, education, homelessness, human rights, economic and social inequality, animal rescue, the arts and more.

Alternative Summer Break applications are due on Friday, March 2, 2012, and interviews will take place on Monday, March 5 and Tuesday, March 6, 2012.