Community Needs From: HoundsConnect

Make a Difference at Service for Impact Day!

Join the Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement on Saturday, August 23, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM for Service for Impact Day—a hands-on opportunity to support meaningful service-learning projects that directly benefit the community. You'll be able to participate in projects such as:

- Assembling care mats for people experiencing homelessness using recycled materials.

-  Creating dog toys for local animal shelters with UIndy Paws. 

- Making mental health support cards for patients at Riley Hospital in partnership with NAMI. 

- Supporting the UIndy Community Gardens And more!

All activities will take place in the Student Center, and you'll earn service hours on your transcript for participating. Come be part of something impactful—and have fun while helping others!

The UIndy gardens are a major part of our campus community, contributing to our food pantry which is open to students, staff, and faculty as well as their parents, alongside the greater University Heights neighborhood areas.

Looking for any amount of students to help throughout the day now through the end of summer. No greater commitment necessary but greatly appreciated.

Respond to this need if you are interested in volunteering. 

Contribute to the renewal of out own studio theater by helping to repaint. The studio theater hosts many exciting and interactive shows like UIndy’ Cabaret, The Annual UIndy Drag show, and most UIndy theather productions. By helping repaint, you would contribute to the extraordinary work of the UIndy communications and theater departments tremendously. 

Looking for 10-20 students to come in 8 am - 2 pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday.

Please complete this FORM if interested OR RESPOND TO THIS NEED ON HOUNDSCONNECT. 

When? Saturday, April 26th, 2025
Time? 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Where? Esch Hall Circle, 1330 Otterbein Cir, Indianapolis, IN 46227

Let’s come together to make a difference! Help clean up the environment by gardening, picking up trash, and creating service projects for those in need. 

What You’ll Do:

Help the community

And more awesome projects to come! Stay tuned!

Perks for Participating:
Service hours on your transcript 
Free food, drinks & gifts after the event (Esch Hall) 
Be part of an amazing team making a real impact! 

Everyone is welcome—students, staff, and the community! You’ll be assigned a team and receive a confirmation email with details from Jasmine Hayes (hayesjt@uindy.edu) at the Center for Service Learning & Community Engagement.

This event is hosted by UIndy Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement,  UIndy Student Affairs and supported by Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, UIndy Athletics, UIndy Grounds, UIndy RSOs, the Marion County Public Health Department, University Heights Neighborhood, University Heights United Methodist Church, and more!

Come be a part of something great!  #UIndyCleanup #MakeAnImpact #GoGreyhounds

This event entails an RSO known as SWE creating cards for a nonprofit organization from 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm on Tuesday. April 1st. 2025

This event focuses on UINDY Admissions creating a service project to allow incoming freshman to participate in with a designated RSO. 

Hounds!

Are you looking for a chance to get a few hours of service for your service resume? Spend a few hours with Bethany Community Gardens on Saturday, March 1st, 2025  starting at 10:00am and going for just one or two hours.

The project involves covering the community gardens with large plastic tarps, killing the cover crop and preparing the soil for the upcoming season, as well and using landscaping rocks to secure the tarps.

Refreshments with be provided by Bethany Community Gardens for student volunteers. 

If you are interested in volunteering please feel free to register here: https://forms.gle/pWdewU8yfwbv6UvY8

For any questions or concerns or to get involved with this project, feel free to contact Jasmine Hayes, the Center for Service-Learning and Community Engagement Program Assistant, at hayesjt@uindy.edu or Bruce Bye @brucebye@gmail.com

The College Mentors for Kids RSO has a  special service event on February 12, 2025, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM! UIndy student mentors will work with their mentees to create gratitude jars and bracelets. Student mentors will also earn service hours on their transcript.

This event took place: January 27, 2025, from 9:00 AM to 11:45 AM! The RSO, UINDY PAWS and UIndy Admissions have partnered to offer a hands-on service-learning activity, giving incoming students a firsthand look at the Service of Impact at UIndy.

The MLK Day event is on Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm in the Student Center . This event is correlated with the Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement and Student Affairs and the Office of Equity and Inclusion for everyone to come together in regards to celebrating MLK'S legacy. During the event, students will decorate a bench and donate it to the Open Kitchen Restaurant 4022 Shelby St, Indianapolis, IN 46227. The bench will allow the customers at the restaurant to enjoy time outside and create a welcoming atmosphere. The event will also welcome students to come and create care kits for those in need. Please make sure to respond to this event through HoundsConnect to receive volunteer hours for this event.

The MLK Day event is on Friday, January 24th, 2025 from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm in the Student Center . This event is correlated with the Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement and Student Affairs and the Office of Equity and Inclusion for everyone to come together in regards to celebrating MLK'S legacy. During the event, students will decorate a bench and donate it to the Open Kitchen Restaurant 4022 Shelby St, Indianapolis, IN 46227. The bench will allow the customers at the restaurant to enjoy time outside and create a welcoming atmosphere. The event will also welcome students to come and create care kits for those in need. Please make sure to respond to this event through HoundsConnect to receive volunteer hours for this event.

The MLK Day event is on Thursday, January 23rd, 2025 from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm in the Student Center . This event is correlated with the Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement and Student Affairs and the Office of Equity and Inclusion for everyone to come together in regards to celebrating MLK'S legacy. During the event, students will decorate a bench and donate it to the Open Kitchen Restaurant 4022 Shelby St, Indianapolis, IN 46227. The bench will allow the customers at the restaurant to enjoy time outside and create a welcoming atmosphere. The event will also welcome students to come and create care kits for those in need. Please make sure to respond to this event through HoundsConnect to receive volunteer hours for this event.

The UINDY Track and Field will be conducting a day of service where they will be helping animals from homeless shelters on Thursday, November 14th from 3:00 pm -6:00 pm with Paws and Think.

This event is coordinated by Students to help feed the homeless for Thanksgiving. Students will be working with Pack Away Hunger, an organization that tackles homelessness and hunger. Students will receive hours on Houndsconnect for this event. The event is Wednesday, November 20th, 2024 at 4:00pm in the student center. 

Join the Womens Engineering club September 24th, 2024 from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm  in creating cards for caregivers of those who are ill. The service will be impactful in making a difference and helping those in need! These service learning hours will be on your transcript as well with free t-shirts and networking with IU Health a community partner that offers various of service opportunities. 

Join the Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement in creating a volunteer/service resume. The resume will benefit you within your career, community, and higher education. The date of the Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement: "Create Your Service Learning Resume" event will be Tuesday, October 22nd and Thursday, October 24th, 2024 from 2:00pm - 3:00pm in the Student Center Atrium. 

NSE day is Tuesday, September 24th,2024 from 2:00pm - 3:00 pm in the student center and Thursday, September 26th from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm in the student center. Students will be able to provide service for community partners during this time and receive those service learning hours for their class, transcript, and resume. If you have any questions or concerns please contact Jasmine Hayes, hayesjt@uindy.edu

The University of Indianapolis is organizing our first UIndy Service for Impact Day and we would like to invite you to join us!  UIndy's Service for Impact day will be on Saturday, August 24th, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. During this event, UIndy students, faculty, and staff will engage in service projects with various organizations in our city. Groups will be between 30-50 people. Groups will arrive to an organizations location by a bus by no later than 10:30am and will need to complete their service by 12:30pm.  Participants will receive  t-shirts, food, and HoundsConnect hours to enhance their resume and transcript. HoundsConnect, UINDY's latest platform, enables students to network with community partners, log service learning hours, strengthen their resumes, and demonstrates the impact of their service within the community.  Register below to create your account, track your hours for Service for Impact UIndy Day, and sign up via the form and HoundsConnect. For any inquiries, please feel free to contact Jasmine Hayes at hayesjt@uindy.edu or (317) 791-2565. Please fill out the survey and the waiver form below and return to Jasmine Hayes hayesjt@uindy.edu or ESCH HALL 134. Thank you. 

Waiver: file:///C:/Users/hayesjt/Downloads/BLANK Liability Waiver Student Release (1) (1).pdf

Survey: https://forms.gle/j2yzHVH6J8hWMqHt8