Partner With Us

Have an LCSL representative join your meeting or class discussion to share more about our program offerings and how to get involved. Info sessions are typically scheduled for 15 or 30 minutes and cover a wide range of information about LCSL's programs. Specialized information sessions can include:

• Voting 101 and Making a plan to Vote
• Opportunities for Leading and Serving as a Student at UMD
• Getting involved in Alternative Breaks, Maryland Mentor Corps, or Terps for Change 
• Earning a minor or certificate in Leadership Studies 
• Using Services 24/7 to Plan your next Service Activity

Don't see what you're looking for? Request a consultation and let's see how we can help.

LCSL offers a wide range of ready-made content, much of which can be uploaded directly to your class or group's Canvas page.

• Leadership Styles and Strengths
• Socially Responsible Leadership
• Ethical Leadership
• TerpsVote General Student Voting Lesson Plan

Our trained facilitators can develop and facilitate interactive learning activities and dialogues.

Workshops include:

• Leadership Styles
• Self-Assessments (e.g., DISC, CliftonStrengths, Emotionally Intelligent Leadership, The Index)
• Team and Community Building
• Social issues, social identity, inclusion, or community voice
• Critical reflection
• Collaboration
• Group Dynamics
• Conflict
• Peer Leadership
• Facilitation Skills
• Quality Community Service
• The Importance of Voting

Not sure where to start? Request a general consultation and our Coordinator for Curriculum & Partnerships will get you moving in the right direction.

Are you involved with an organization, class, initiative at UMD that provides tutoring or mentoring to PK-12 students in the local community? We'd love to learn more about your work and how a campus-community network could strengthen your efforts. Connect with our network by emailing pk12tutoring@umd.edu.

PK-12 Tutoring and Mentoring Foundations

• This course introduces key foundations for UMD students who are serving as tutors or mentors in a PK-12 setting. Completion of the online course will result in the "PK-12 Tutoring and Mentoring Foundations" micro-credential. Participants will enhance their ability to create meaningful and professional connections with young learners, understand high-impact tutoring strategies, and identify ways to adapt one's practices to learners' needs.
• Free to participate. Open only to UMD students, staff, and faculty.
• Enroll in PK-12 Tutoring and Mentoring Foundations

PK-12 Tutoring & Mentoring Strategies

• This course introduces key strategies for UMD students who are serving as tutors or mentors with PK-12 learners. Participants will enhance their understanding of evidence-based approaches for learning in reading and math as well as for supporting English speakers of other languages in tutoring and mentoring settings. Completion of the online course will result in the "PK-12 Tutoring and Mentoring Strategies" micro-credential. Participants will enhance their ability to support young learners with key approaches to literacy, math and multilingual learning.
• Free to participate. Open only to UMD students, staff, and faculty.
• Enroll in PK-12 Tutoring & Mentoring Strategies

All UMD students, faculty, and staff have an existing account with GivePulse and just need to claim their account. GivePulse uses UMD's single sign-on, so use your directory ID and password when logging in.

To log in and find volunteer opportunities.

1. Visit services247.umd.edu
2. In the top right-hand corner, click the account management button, and select  'sign up'
3. When prompted select 'Sign up via UMD' to log in and use your UMD directory ID and password to log in.

If you are interested in personalizing your account, select “Account” from the drop-down menu under your name or image to complete the final steps, including the causes you care about and the skills you have. Filling out your profile information helps groups find you for events that are relevant to you.

You can find service opportunities in several different ways.

• From the main Services 24/7 page, select events to view upcoming, open, and ongoing volunteer opportunities. Click an event block to learn more about each opportunity. Ready to commit? Select the blue “register” button on the upper right-hand side of the event page.
• Click the ‘Explore’ tab on the top right of the screen to search current service opportunities. If you are interested in a particular type of service opportunity or issue area, you can search for those within the Explore tab.
• Interested in volunteering with a particular organization? Search our list of community partners to explore their volunteer opportunities.

There are two different ways to add an impact on GivePulse.

• Add an impact from any page or for independent service.
  • Go to your profile at the top of the menu and select ‘Add Impact’. Search for the organization where you volunteered. Can’t find where you volunteered? Select the ‘Can’t Find it’ button to finish recording your service hours. Fill out all the required information and submit your impact.
• Add an impact from registration
  • If you have already registered for an event, you will receive an email notification following the event to confirm your hours. You can always check events or shifts you are registered for by selecting ‘My Activity’ from the menu and selecting ‘Registrations’.

Yes. GivePulse is available in both the App Store and Google Play Store.

• Download the iOS App
• Download the Android App

Through the app, you can search for volunteer opportunities, submit service hours and update your personal profile.

Administrators, event managers, and check-in attendants can switch to their admin role in the app by selecting the profile option in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen and selecting ‘Switch to Admin’.

Absolutely! UMD departments, colleges, or student organizations that offer service opportunities can become one of our subgroups. By becoming a subgroup, you will be able to:

• Promote your upcoming service opportunity
• Easily manage registration, waivers, and communications in one central place
• Use the GivePulse app for day-of logistics like check-in

Email Kam Risku at kjrisku@umd.edu to get started. 

Services 24/7 is available free of cost for our community partner organizations. By having a profile, you can create volunteer opportunities that members of the University of Maryland community can sign up to attend. By affiliating with Services 24/7, we can promote your organization's events and opportunities.

You can also utilize Services 24/7 as a volunteer management platform for tracking and promoting opportunities for community volunteers.

To request an account, please fill out our Services 24/7 Community Partner Request Form. We are typically able to initiate the creation of your account in 3-5 business days. Once you create a profile, our staff will be in touch to offer training on how to utilize the platform.

There are two ways to verify impacts. If you created an event that the student registered for, you can simply sign them in. If there was not an associated event and students are reporting the hours to you directly, you may follow these instructions to verify their impact.

Check out GivePulse's step-by-step guide on creating an event for your group.

Request a Program, Workshop or Curriculum Consultation

LCSL has highly skilled and trained student and staff facilitators who offer a wide range of workshops, dialogues, and info sessions. We will work alongside you to design and facilitate interactive leadership development, civic engagement, and service-learning activities that meet your organization's needs.

LCSL staff assist instructors in designing courses and developing syllabi that incorporate community engagement or leadership development elements. Please contact us at lcsl@umd.edu to get started.

TerpsVote

TerpsVote is a nonpartisan initiative that seeks to increase civic engagement, build positive voting behavior, and make voting information accessible. TerpsVote invites students, faculty, and staff to join the initiative!

TerpsVote offers a customizable course module that includes a lesson plan (up to 90 minutes) and PowerPoint for UMD faculty and staff to use. The module includes activities about how to vote, the importance of voting, and the impact of elected officials on college students.

Services 24/7

Services 24/7 is a virtual resource that increases the capacity of the University of Maryland community to work with nearly 300 nonprofit organizations and campus departments. Services 24/7 offers diverse opportunities to connect with local events, groups, and causes. This resource also encourages community engagement by offering a space to review and reflect on volunteer experience.

Maryland Democracy Initiative

Maryland Democratic Initiative works towards a fairer and more just society by growing 5 capacities of people: civic competence, knowledge, opportunity, agency, and respect. To pursue this mission, the Maryland Democratic Initiative uses innovative interdisciplinary, community-centered research, teaching, learning, and civic engagement.

Transform Mid-Atlantic

Transform Mid-Atlantic holds the Service-Learning & Civic Engagement Conference (SLCE) open to students, faculty and staff at institutions in D.C., Maryland, and Delaware. The SLCE Conference offers full-day panels, discussions, professional development and networking opportunities! The SLCE Conference is usually held in late-March or early-April.

Transform Mid-Atlantic

Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellowship (TMACF) is a program that connects student leaders to develop their knowledge, leadership skills, and understanding of civic engagement. This fellowship is fit for students who are engaged global citizens, actively contributing to the creation of equitable, healthy, sustainable, and socially just communities. TMA’s member presidents are invited to nominate one student from their campus.

The Transform Mid-Atlantic Faculty Development Mini Grant Program supports member faculty that seek to enhance student learning and engagement. The program awards up to $10,000 each year to help faculty initiate or continue programs related to civic and community engagement, service-learning, community-based learning and research. and collaborative intercampus and community-based partnerships.

Transform Mid-Atlantic also holds the Service-Learning & Civic Engagement Conference (SLCE) open to students, faculty and staff at institutions in D.C., Maryland, and Delaware. The SLCE Conference offers full-day panels, discussions, professional development and networking opportunities! The SLCE Conference is usually held in late-March or early-April.

Transform Mid-Atlantic also hosts an annual TMA Awards Program. TMA offers several award opportunities to member institutions' faculty and staff! Awards recognize excellence in service-learning, community-based research and learning, and civic and community engagement. 

AmeriCorps

AmeriCorps is an agency that connects volunteers and nonprofit organizations to tackle challenges in the United States. Their areas of impact include disaster services, economic opportunity, education, environmental stewardship, healthy futures, veterans and military families.

Peace Corps

Peace Corps is an agency that builds and maintains relationships with global communities through volunteer opportunities. Peace Corps supports volunteers so they can live and work with community members to grow, teach, learn and create change. They provide opportunities in agriculture, community economic development, education, environment, health, and youth in development.

Services 24/7

Services 24/7 is a virtual resource that increases the capacity of the University of Maryland community to work with nearly 300 nonprofit organizations and campus departments. Services 24/7 offers diverse opportunities to connect with local events, groups, and causes. This resource also encourages community engagement by offering a space to review and reflect on volunteer experience.

Global Leadership & Civic Engagement Exchange with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

We have partnered with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to offer the Global Leadership and Civic Engagement Exchange Fellowship which is a program focused on global leadership and service-learning. The goal of this exchange is to develop students' global citizenship, broaden students' perspectives on service-learning, and nurture motivated students to become service-learning leaders. To work towards these goals, this program offers direct and project-based service-learning opportunities in non-profit immersions, activities, and local field trips.

• Community Toolbox
• Community Toolbox Justice Action Toolkit
• Activist Handbook
• Student Activist Toolkit
• A Guide to Activism in the Digital Age

• National Youth Rights Association (Protest Organizing)
• De-Escalation Techniques
• Safety, Security, and Digital Preparedness

• 10 Great Resources on Activist Wellbeing
• Self-Care for Activists (Strategies for prioritizing your politics and your well-being)
• Impacts of Activism on Health and Wellbeing

• Surveillance Self-Defense
• Know Your Rights (ACLU)
• Know Your Rights (National Lawyers Guild)

• Artful Activism: A Toolkit for Creative Activism
• Arts Activism Toolkit -disruption, disobedience and creativity

• 26 ways to be in the struggle, beyond the streets
• Civil Disobedience Legal Briefing
• Civil Disobedience Training

• PEN America Free Speech Guide
• Free Speech and Censorship Guide (ACLU)
• First Amendment and Censorship Guide (ALA)