PSC Student Service Groups

With over 500 registered student organizations, numerous projects and events, it is easy to get involved in the Cornell service community. Most groups are based on campus, but focus service efforts on a local, national, or international level. All are open to undergraduates and graduate students, unless otherwise noted.

If you are interested in being a PSC affiliated program please fill out this application (doc) and return to pscaffiliation@cornell.edu.

Public Service Center Programs

• Alternative Breaks
• Cornell Elderly Partnership (CEP)
• Community Partnership Board
• Encourage Young Engineers & Scientists (EYES)
• GRASSHOPR
• Into the Streets
• Language Pairing Program (LPP)
• Let's Get Ready! (LGR)
• Pre-Orientation Service Trips (POST)
• PSC Leadership Council
• PSC Student Leadership Development Program
• Public Service Center Scholars
• Raising Education Attainment Challenge (REACH)
• Students Against the Sexual Solicitation of Youth (SASSY)
• Sexual Awareness for Everyone (SAFE)
• Translator Interpreter Program (TIP)

PSC Affiliated Student Service Programs

• Bright Red Bookshelves - The Cornell Public Service Center is the coordinating host of the Cornell Community of the Bright Red Bookshelf, a project of the Family Reading Partnership.
• Cross-Cultural Adoptee Mentorship Program (C-CAMP): C-CAMP serves the unique needs of Ithaca's large transnational adoptive community by fostering language and cultural interest and understanding. C-CAMP achieves this by pairing transnationally adopted youth with Cornell student mentors of a similar cultural background and by holding cultural-interest events throughout the semester. E-mail: cornellccamp@gmail.com.
• Cornell Bigs - This student organization works closely with the local Ithaca Youth Bureau to mentor "at-risk" children aged six to 14.
• Cornell Hunger Relief - This organization seeks to educate the Cornell community about poverty and hunger issues within and beyond the Ithaca area. For more information please email gmk52@cornell.edu.
• Disability Services Troop (DST) - Cornell's DST helps students with injuries/permanent disabilities with any and all personal needs.
• First Book - The purpose of First Book is to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. 
• Friends of Farmworkers (FOF) - The purpose of Friends of Farmworkers (FOF) is to provide consistent English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction to farmworkers who know little or no English.
• Half in Ten - aims to educate the community on poverty issues as well as to address apoverty-related issue in Tompkins County in some way.
• Lights Up Cornell
• SAPSC - (Student Assembly Public Service Committee) a partnership between the Student Assembly, Greek Tri-council, Cornell Public Service Center and student organizations on campus. The committee works to promote a commitment to public service among the student body. Contact Adam Gitlin
• Shake Poverty - The mission of SHAKEPOVERTY is to unite, inspire and empower students toactively support the end of extreme poverty through funding sustainable projects that improve sanitation in impoverished villages. Contact shakepoverty.cornell@gmail.com.
• Therapy Thru Music
• Youth Outreach Undergraduates Reshaping Success (YOURS) - YOURS reaches out to children living in mobile home parks near Ithaca, by conducting extracurricular programs for them.

Working downtown

Students of a PSC signature program, POST