Fordham Volunteers

About Us

Fordham Volunteers mobilizes students, faculty, and staff to support the work of community organizations across New York City. We work alongside local partners on initiatives shaped by community priorities that strengthen neighborhoods and deepen connections between Fordham and the communities surrounding our campuses.

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Volunteer projects take place throughout the year across New York City’s boroughs and offer a range of commitment levels. Opportunities span many areas of community engagement, including:

Education and Youth Development
Arts and Culture
Food insecurity
Housing and neighborhood development
Environmental justice and sustainability
Advocacy and community organizing
Much more!

Through these experiences, we aim to cultivate relationships, support community priorities, and encourage lifelong commitments to community engagement.

Highlights

Gabelli School Students Lend a Hand to Furry Friends

This year, the Bronx is getting its first-ever full-service animal shelter, and its staff is counting on Fordham students to help spread the word. Professor Seoyoung Kim, Ph.D., and her Gabelli …

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Students Learn About Theater as a Tool for Social Justice

How can theater make a difference in the world? Fordham students recently explored that question for a class project, leaving behind their familiar classrooms and rehearsal spaces at the Lincoln …

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Santander Invests Nearly $500K in Fordham Experiential Learning Programs

Fordham has received a grant of nearly half a million dollars from Santander US to expand study abroad scholarships and support paid internships and green job creation in the Bronx …

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Thanksgiving Spirit: A Bronx Turkey Giveaway

Fordham undergraduate students joined staff from the Center for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL) and volunteers from Catholic Charities, Bestcare Homecare, Astor Services, and other Bronx partners for a turkey-and-trimmings giveaway …

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Fordham Volunteer Corps Deepens Community Impact

A new program is giving students the opportunity to roll up their sleeves and contribute to service projects guided by the needs of the local community. The Fordham Volunteer Corps, …

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Drama as Therapy: Professor Leads Theater Workshops to Benefit Immigrants

For Fadi Skeiker, Ph.D., theater is about more than stage productions. It’s about the power of acting techniques themselves—to soothe trauma, bring people closer together, advance justice, and change lives. …

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Pathways to Medical Careers: Internships and Mentoring in Bronx Hospitals Empower Students

For Fordham sophomore Julia Sosa, it was a summer of immersion in the world of medicine: shadowing doctors, including during surgery; learning how to suture; and working with two other …

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Research With and For the Bronx

Feeling nervous about AI? You’re not alone. A community initiative funded by a new research institute at Fordham found that many Bronx nonprofit leaders are hesitant about these new technologies, given the …

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Hands-On Learning with Women’s Press Collective

First-year student Lauren Andriessen found herself doing something unexpected this semester: learning to clean an offset printing press at a volunteer organization in the Bronx. She didn’t know that’s what …

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Grant Supports Mental Health Counseling in the Bronx

A professor at Fordham’s Graduate School of Education (GSE) has received a $550,000 grant to address the mental health needs of underserved communities of the Bronx. The grant was a …

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Fordham Appoints First Vice President for External Affairs

Travis Proulx, a seasoned advocacy and communications leader with decades of experience working in New York state government, the nonprofit sector, and higher education, has been named Fordham’s inaugural Vice …

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Contact Us

Fordham Staff, Faculty, and Students: Want to set up a volunteer opportunity for your class, club, or group of friends?

Community Partners: Have an event, project, or long-term opportunity that you’d like to invite the Fordham community to participate in?

We’d love to connect with you!

Email: [email protected]

We’d love to connect with you!

Schedule a meeting to discuss volunteer options