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About Us: Friends for Youth (FFY) is a nonprofit organization that has been matching underserved youth with caring adult mentors since 1979. FFY offers both 1-to-1 Mentoring across the Peninsula for ages 8-17, and Group Mentoring for students in 8th-10th grades. Role Description: Friends for Youth is...

Calling all animal lovers! Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of furry, feathered, and finned friends? Look no further – ASP is here to unite your love for animals with impactful service in your local community. 🌟🐶 Diverse Opportunities: ASP offers a wide array...

East Palo Alto Academy Foundation (EPAAF) is a small nonprofit organization supporting the staff, students, and graduates of the East Palo Alto Academy (EPAA). Founded in 2001, the charter high school has long partnered with the Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE), having initially been supported by the Stanford-affiliated nonprofit...

At Young STEAMers, we believe that every child deserves access to quality STEAM education that goes beyond textbooks and traditional methods. We are committed to breaking down barriers and creating inclusive spaces where children from diverse backgrounds can explore the wonders of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics through real-world...

  GPS Fellowship Description In partnership with the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education, the Haas Center for Public Service offers the Graduate Public Service (GPS) Fellowship as a space for graduate students to cultivate their skills, commitments, and identities as community-engaged scholars.  The GPS Fellowship creates a...

The Stanford Spokes team hosts educational workshops and learning festivals at teaching sites such as Boys and Girls Clubs, public libraries, and nonprofit educational centers throughout the summer. Each student on the team will design a workshop on a topic they are passionate about, with a focus on providing students...

Asha Stanford works towards promoting the education of underprivileged children in India by providing financial assistance and support to the NGOs focused on education projects. Volunteers of Asha work closely with the project partners in India, while locally organizing fundraisers and community awareness events. Asha Holi, a popular event in...

Join a community of students committed to rigorous scholarship that is community-engaged, equity-focused, and designed for social impact.   The Community Engaged Scholars Programs The Community Engaged Scholars Program (CESP) exists to support and elevate the work of Stanford students undertaking  senior honors theses, MA theses, or...

The Asylum Collaborative at Stanford brings together students, physicians, and community law partners to provide medical and psychological evaluations to asylum-seekers across the Bay Area. In addition to forensic evaluations, our group works to connect new arrivals in the U.S. to essential services, such as healthcare, education, and obtaining basic needs...

The California Cadet Corps is an organization that offers a school-based applied leadership program, founded in 1911 by the California Legislature and then Adjutant General BG Edwin A. Forbes, and thought to be the oldest of its kind in the country. The program is designed to provide maximum growth and...

The North Fair Oaks Community Alliance (NFOCA) is a small community organization established by community leaders in North Fair Oaks (NFO), an unincorporated community surrounded by the cities of Menlo Park, Atherton, and Redwood City. NFOCA advocates to improve life for all in North Fair Oaks (NFO). NFOCA works to...

Stanford SupplyHer aims to bring together students with a passion for art and give them a space to use their creativity to uplift women by utilizing artistic passion in parallel to philanthropic action. We will also collect donations of sanitary products for women's shelters and health centers, as well as...

Education Partnerships (EdP) programs address education equity in our local communities by engaging Stanford students and community youth in tutoring and mentoring relationships. Three of these programs host on-campus summer programs for local youth – East Palo Alto Stanford Academy (EPASA), the High School Support Initiative (HSSI) and Ravenswood Reads...

The Maanvi project brings affordable menstrual hygiene products to low-income communities in Northern India. By providing affordable, safe alternatives to cloth rags, educating people about their bodies, and destigmatizing periods, the initiative aims to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with poor menstrual hygiene, boost high school completion rates, and enable...

PPLA is a student-led mutual aid organization that strives to end period poverty and help bridge healthcare inequities impacting marginalized communities. We aim to end the stigma associated with menstruation and to advocate for the inequities in our healthcare system from the lack of access to education and free menstrual...

The Cardinal Free Clinics (CFCs), encompassing Arbor Free Clinic and Pacific Free Clinic, are two student-run health clinics operated by Stanford School of Medicine that provide free transitional primary care to adult residents of Santa Clara County and San Mateo County. Arbor Free Clinic operates in Redwood City and Pacific...

The Issue Area Coordinators Program provides our most committed students with training and practice in collective leadership. The Haas Center’s Issue Area Coordinators build partnerships among Stanford students, faculty, and Bay Area community leaders to address challenges around Affordability, Civic Engagement, Education, Environmental Sustainability, Health, and Public Interest Technology. Talk...

Inspired by Jewish values of social justice and Tikkun Olam (repairing the world), the Jewish Coalition for Literacy (JCL) mobilizes volunteer tutors of all backgrounds and supports parents to help emerging and struggling readers in grades K-5 on the Peninsula and throughout the Bay Area. We envision a society in...

Lauren's House is a small nonprofit in East Menlo Park that serves at-risk children, youth and their families.  The mission of Lauren's House 4 Positive Change is to provide a safe environment for at-risk children, youth, and their families from primarily in San Mateo County where they are exposed to...

The Recovery and Service Fellowship Nationwide, over 600,000 college students identify as being a person in recovery from substance use disorder. To help meet the needs of these individuals, Cardinal Recovery provides peer-led support for people struggling with substance use and behavioral process addictions. We create safe spaces where students...

Vida Verde is a nonprofit that promotes educational equity by providing free, overnight environmental learning experiences for students who don't otherwise get the opportunity. We serve 4th-6th grade students in our three-day, two-night camping program. Our Teen and Family program includes a week-long teen leadership summer camp along with activities...

Our organization aims to provide high quality services to Bay Area children whose parents or guardians have been affected by cancer. In a week-long sleep-away camp setting in Northern California, we aim to provide children with the ability to just be children again, through a series of fun activities, with...

ImpactZ is a non-profit organization that aims to spread environmental awareness and stewardship to the youth in our community through education and engagement. We aim to invite all who are passionate about the environment to share their interest through engaging and teaching young students. We do so by planting gardens...

Stanford Vaccine Crew provides vaccinations to local communities, especially communities that are historically underserved and have limited access to vaccines otherwise. We partner with organizations like the United Farm Workers and the Salvation Army to deliver both flu and COVID vaccines. Our undergraduate volunteers play a critical role in making...

The Strauss Scholarship pays tribute to the vision, ideals, and leadership of Donald A. Strauss, and to his life-long commitment to public service and to education.The Scholarship promotes the value of public service in the education and preparation of our future leaders. In financing innovative student-generated projects which foster leadership...

The Stanford Housing Equity Project seeks to connect resources of Silicon Valley and higher academia to community initiatives supporting low-income and unsheltered residents to housing and social support through establishing high-quality programming and long-term organizational capacity.

Lambda Theta Nu Sorority Inc. is Stanford's only Latina sorority. Our primary focuses are meeting the needs of Latina women in higher education and serving our communities. We aim to show both our members and members in the community how to be engaged with the communities around Stanford.

The Farmlink Project connects farms with surplus to food banks to feed people in need, reduce carbon emissions & empower the next generation of changemakers. Our team is comprised of passionate students from diverse backgrounds united by the cause to create a more equitable and sustainable food system. This fellowship...

We are a coalition of Stanford students, scientists, and alumni invested in ensuring the Doerr School of Sustainability achieve its full potential as a beacon of research excellence that accelerates the energy transition, with the speed and scale necessary to avert catastrophe. We are calling on school leadership to decline...

Students for Workers' Rights is an activist group that organizes the Stanford student body around the issue of labor at Stanford. We recruit Stanford students to our organization, educate them on the labor issues occurring at Stanford, and organize them to do something about it. We develop close relationships with...