Alternative Breaks


Alternative Breaks Board is now recruiting!!! Enjoy service learning? Well we do too! The Alternative Breaks Board is looking for energetic, fun, and motivated students to join their board starting this year! Alternative Breaks, a program run out of the Public Service Center, sends over 100 students every spring break to participate in service learning orientated trips to places like New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Florida, West Virginia, Lake Placid, and Cape Cod. Board members should commit approximately 5 hours a week and could be working on fundraising, marketing, organizing applications and students, and working with trip leaders. Fill out an application soon and don't miss your chance for this great opportunity!

If you are interested, pick up an application or fill out the pdf verion and return it to the Public Service Center at 200 Barnes Hall.

Alternative Breaks Board application 2008

For more information on trips for Spring Break 2008, please attend one of our information sessions:
  • Wednesday, October 24th, 6pm.  Goldwin Smith, Kaufman Auditorium
  • Monday, October 29th, 6pm.  Goldwin Smith, Kaufman Auditorium

Alternative Breaks is a student led program of the Cornell Public Service Center. Join one of our amazing teams of students that will spend Spring Break tackling service-learning projects on issues as varied as urban poverty, hunger, inadequate housing, domestic violence, homelessness, civil rights, HIV/AIDS, farmworkers, at-risk youth and environmental damage. Trip sites include Boston, Cape Cod, Lake Placid, New York City, Philadelphia and rural West Virginia.

You can also email us at altbreaks@cornell.edu or stop by the Public Service Center in 200 Barnes Hall.

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