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Each summer, thousands of students and young people travel around the world to lend a hand in service projects and volunteer opportunities. What impact do they have? What are they learning? Who do they meet? What are the things they do that work? This summer, change.org and the Consortium for Student Global Service (CSGS) [...]

Applications are due today for the MPI Summer Program. Summer volunteers spend four weeks working on site in either Ecuador or Nicaragua, serving an underprivileged population, and addressing the challenges of community development. The program integrates the volunteers into the daily functions of MPI Program Directors as they assist in planning classes, instructing lessons, and implementing [...]

The Consortium for Global Service is currently developing a better architecture for sharing best practices and lessons learned among student global service projects, in order to improve student impact on the ground in service projects focused on health, education, and poverty alleviation.