About
Welcome to Fairfield University GivePulse! With GivePulse, you can search for community engagement and service opportunities, record your impacts, and learn more about the work of our community partner organizations.
Community engagement is at the heart of Fairfield University’s mission as a modern Jesuit Catholic institution to “develop the creative intellectual potential of its students and to foster in them ethical and religious values and a sense of social responsibility.” Our commitment to pursuing academic excellence in the Ignatian tradition invites our students, faculty, and staff to develop an ongoing intellectual and spiritual practice of encounter, reflection, and action. Community engagement welcomes local and global partners into that practice with the dual purpose of enacting social change and fostering mutual learning.
Fairfield University offers intentional learning opportunities for faculty, staff and students to develop a civic identity and a commitment to being persons for and with others. Through an institutional commitment to community-engaged learning, direct service, civic and democratic engagement, and cultural exchange, our programs seek to create a positive social impact and prepare our students to be socially just and ethical members of our campus community and of the local, national, and global communities to which they belong.
The initiatives below capture the broad range of programming and engagement opportunities:
- Direct Service Programs
- Community-Engaged Learning & Research
- Philanthropy & Humanitarian Action
- Intercultural Learning & Immersion
- Civic Learning & Democratic Engagement
- Dialogue Across Difference
- Advocacy & Activism
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Arts & Cultural Engagement