get involved

The Usual Projects

Outreach offers a variety of different service projects to do in the DC Community with your fellow classmates. Find an upcoming project.

The Semi-Annual Projects

Do you have an idea for an organization that would like to be a part of a schoolwide day of service? Tell us about it.

Ways You Can Join

Volunteer for any of our projects or to be a 1L Section Leader! Section Leaders plan projects and promote Outreach events to their sections. If you're interested in joining our mailing list or becoming a 1L Section Leader, please email us.

Ways You Can Help the DC Community

If you want to do volunteer work, but your schedule doesn't fit with the events Outreach has planned, please feel free to contact any of these organizations yourself. They all have programs for people interested in volunteering!

• > So Others Might Eat

SOME helps break the cycle of homelessness by offering services, such as affordable housing, job training, addiction treatment, and counseling, to the poor, the elderly and individuals with mental illness.
• > Higher Achievement Program

Provides middle school children from underserved areas year-round academic enrichment programs and preparation for top high school placement.
• > National Arboretum

Enhances the National Arboretum, a living museum with trees, shrubs and plants cultivated for scientific and educational purposes.
• > Community Family Life Services

A faith-based, non-profit organization with a mission to help people who are low-income and homeless achieve personal growth social and economic self-sufficiency and independence through a web of integrated care, regardless of their faith.
• > Ronald McDonald House

Provides a home away from home to families of seriously ill children being treated in DC area hospitals.