About This Site

Supporting Partners

Contact Information

Community Organizations

About Us
Developed collaboratively by The Ohio State University’s Service Learning Initiative, Project Community and P-12 Project, The Community Connection’s main goal is to assist with the recruitment, training, placement, and support of students as volunteers in the local neighborhood communities.

About this site:

• Students search for service opportunities and match their interests with community needs.
• Faculty manage service learning courses by tracking their students, finding community partners, and promoting courses to prospective students
• Students maintain a record of their service hours and completed training modules.
• Community agencies link directly to OSU student volunteers, list opportunities, approve student hours, and post emergency needs.
• Students, faculty, and community agencies find out about upcoming events, and see a calendar of events.

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Supporting Partners
The Community Connection is a collaboration between OSU’s Service Learning Initiative, Project Community, and P-12 Project.

Service Learning Initiative
The Service-Learning Initiative (SLI) at The Ohio State University leads efforts to integrate service-learning across the curricula of the seventeen colleges of the university while improving the success of P-12 education, community-based organizations and service agencies in meeting the needs of university district residents. With funding from the Corporation for National Service, thirty mini-grants will be awarded to Ohio State University faculty over the next three years for the development of courses incorporating community-based teaching, learning and inquiry and service in cooperation with community partners.

Project Community
Project Community is a clearinghouse for volunteer resources, referrals, and programs. Project Community staff help connect students with direct service opportunities, provides outreach to student organizations, works with agencies to build sustainable relationships, and plans several large-scale projects like Community Commitment, MLK Day of Service, Make a Difference Day, and Alternative Spring Break.

Students at The Ohio State University have a strong history of being committed to service to the community. Over the past decade, university staff members have seen an increase in the amount of student involvement in the University District.We also know that students are entering the university community from high schools with experience in community service. To that end, this database has been designed to continue student involvement in service opportunities.

P-12 Project
The mission of the P-12 Project is to assist in the improvement of Ohio’s schools, particularly in districts that serve children and youths from lower socio-economic families. The P-12 Project aims to catalyze, initiate, promote, and support collaboration between the OSU and Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade schools.

As recipients of a large percentage of the students who volunteer, the schools in close proximity to The Ohio State University have a particularly keen interest in increasing the number of predictable and sustainable student volunteers in the schools. To support these schools, the P-12 Project works with Columbus Public Schools, various campus student groups, and other campus and community organizations to recruit and support tutoring and mentoring in the local schools.

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Contact Information

Community Connection

Service Learning Initiative
Golden Jackson
(614) 292-4575

Project Community
Collier Lumpkin
(614) 292-SERV

P-12 Project
Nancy Nestor-Baker, Director
(614) 688-3621


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Community Organizations

Agency List - Lists the name, address and primary contact for each agency in our database.

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This web site is brought to you by the Service Learning Initiative, Project Community at the Ohio Union, and the P-12 Project.
Contact us at communityconnection@osu.edu.