RG-CSC: Community Service Center Records,
1988-1996 (bulk 1988-1992)

Historical Note:
The Community Service Center began in 1988 with a student community service grant from ACTION and with funding from Grinnell College. The mission of the Center is to support volunteer projects that address poverty- related issues, promote positive social change, and develop cross-cultural understanding. Projects in which students have participated fall into seven categories: tutoring projects, social service agencies' programs, and programs serving adults with special needs, children, homeless people, women, and senior citizens. Student volunteers usually commit one to five hours per week on an ongoing basis.

Center directors have been:
Heather Kenvin Hietala, 1988-91
Amy Eilert Graves, 1991-

Provenance: Transferred to the Archives by Amy Eilert, June 1997.

Quantity: 5 boxes; 2 linear feet

Scope and Content Note:
The collection is organized into two series: Office Files and Program Files. Office Files contains applications to ACTION, progress reports, correspondence, and budgets. In addition are program evaluations, the CSC newsletter (Bridges), and public relations' materials.

Program Files contains files on each program or agency with which student volunteers worked. There are lists of volunteers, correspondence, clippings and public relations materials, and information about the program or agency. The CSC received a great deal of recognition for student involvement with Alternative Breaks in which students worked on service activities instead of taking vacations. Some statistical information regarding student volunteerism can be found in the "Class projects" file.

Series 1: Office files

Box Listing:
Box 1
Student Community Service Project applications, 1988-90 (3 folders)
ACTION progress reports, 1988-91 (3 folders)
ACTION: budgets, correspondence, 1988-91 (4 folders)
Advisory Board: monthly reports, correspondence, 1988-92 (2 folders)
Appreciation Picnic, 1989
Budget, 1988-91 (4 folders)

Box 2
Budget, 1992-94 (4 folders)
College business, 1992-93
Community Service Awareness Week, Jan. 1989
Community Service conference: budget, planning, publicity, 1989-91 (6 folders)
Community service organizations fair, 1989-92 (2 folders)
Corespondance: president's office, miscellaneous (3 folders)
Evaluations, 1988-91 (4 folders)
Box 3
Governor's Conference, 1996
Gifts
Grants, 1989
International classroom program coordinators, 1989
ISO newsletter, 1988-93
Liability: correspondence
Mission statement, 1989
Newsletter, 1988-92 (4 folders)
Project Topic, 1989
Public relations, 1988-89
Box 4
Public relations, 1989-91 (3 folders)
Reception, Sept. 1988
Resident Advisor search, 1991-93
Resident Life Coordinators search, 1995-96
Student Affairs, 1991-96 (4 folders)
Student Assistants: worklogs, evaluations, application, 1989-95 (5 folders)
Student Coordinators, 1990-92
Student Transportation, 1989-93

Box 5
Survey
Volunteer opportunities, 1988-92
Volunteers by program, 1989-93 (3 folders)
Volunteer hours' logs
Volunteer recruitment, 1988-92 (2 folders)

Series 2: Program files

Box 1
ACPA
Adult Literacy, 1988-90
Alternative Breaks
Alumni Interviews
AmeriCorp
Amnesty International
ASIA's Kinship forms
Body Shop Fitness Center
Camp Fire
Camp Sunnyside
Campus Compact
Caring Adults Day Care Center
Chore Service
CIRSI
Class projects
College Preschool
College Shadowing Program- COOL
CROP Walk
Criminal Justice Ministries PenPal programs
CSC table
Davis School Buddies
Davis School. Buddy program
Davis School. Saturday Enrichment program
Des Moines Hispanic Society
Department of Human Services

Box 2
Domestic Violence Alternatives
English as a Second Language
Friendship Manor
Girl Scouts
Girl Scout Cookie Sale, 1993
Grinnell Community Day Care
Grinnell General Hospital
Grinnell-Newburg School partnership
Grinnell-Newburg Schools applications
Grinnell-Newburg Schools Buddy Program
Grinnell Senior Center
Grinnell 2000
Habitat for Humanity
Happy Bear Program
Head Start
I Have A Dream
Iowa Peace Institute
Jasper County Care Facility
Jeanne Burkle Women's Center
Job Service
Kinship
Mayflower
M.I.C.A.
Native American Interest Group
NISL
Peace Corp
Peace Day
Planned Parenthood Book Sale
Box 3
Poweshiek County Career Development Center
Poweshiek County Mental Health Center
Poweshiek County Relief
Project Houses
Rosenfield Program
RSVP
St. Francis Manor
School House, 1990-91
Senior Olympics
Special Olympics (2 folders)
Toy Drive
Volunteer Connection
Youth Services in Rural Areas

Items Discarded:
Duplicates, federal government manuals, invoices, to-do lists, routine memos, articles not directly related to CSC, volunteers' hours' sheets, conference hand- outs.

Processed by Leslie Czechowski, July 1997; accretions processed by Melissa Bailey, January 1999.