Community Links

Community Links serves both Indiana University South Bend and the community in which we live, as part of their mission they serve as both a clearing house for volunteerism and a referral of volunteerism students, faculty, and staff.

Tasha Browning, Community Links, holds many different service projects that anyone in the community and on campus can be involved with. One project, according to Browning, that Community Links is involved in is the monthly agency tour. Every month, students, faculty, staff, and the community are invited to tour different agencies around the South Bend area.

These tours are intended to inform the community of what the agencies do and how the community can help.

Community Links also does donation drives and participates in the Making a Difference Day, United Way Day of Caring. This is an annual event and will be held, said Browning, “going back to Reigns of Life, people seemed to like it last year, working with children and getting to see animals.”

Some other things that have been done in the past, according to Brown, one year they helped the fire department hand out fire alarms to the River Park neighborhood. Another year they racked leaves in the same neighborhood, they have also help paint the walls at the YWCA, and have help decorate the zoo for zoo boo.

For more information on Community Links and the events they are involved with you can call Tasha Browning at (574) 520-LINK (5465) or visit their website at http://www.iusb.edu/~clinks@iusb.edu, if you have trouble with the website you can go the IUSB homepage and look under A-Z Big List in the upper right corner of the page.