Project Community

Project Community is a student-run (volunteer and work-study) community service organization that provides Guilford students with a chance to better serve our community(on-campus and off-campus)through service projects and volunteer opportunities. The student leader is Coletter Cosner (ccosner@guilford.edu). You can also reach us at projectcommunity@guilford.edu To implement this goal, the organization:

  • Works very closely with the Community Learning Department to operate an office that directly links individual students, organizations, faculty, and staff with community service opportunities on campus, in Guilford County, and in surrounding counties.

  • Serves as a liaison between the Guilford's volunteer sites and its parent agency.

  • Keeps the Guilford community informed about involvement opportunities through various marketing strategies, publicity, and promotion techniques.

  • Supports community outreach programs, special events and programming that is engaged in service or issues of social change, antiracism, and cultural understanding.

  • Dispenses funds as a member of the Service Coordination Council (SCC) to Guilford students for projects and ideas that educates and encourages individuals to promote a socially, economically, and politically equitable and just community.

  • Assists student leaders (project coordinators) of community outreach projects/sites with administrative tasks, logistics, and publicity of special events, transportation, moral support, and securing volunteers.

In addition, Project Community sponsors and/or supports these major events annually:

Fall Semester

  • Leadership Pre-mester (training for project coordinators and selected volunteers)
  • Service Avantis (Project Home, Multicultural, and Homelessness) during the summer.
  • Volunteer and Internships Fair (August)
  • Volunteer Retreat (workshops and site specific training for volunteers - August)
  • Soup Bowl (Can Drive in October)
  • Halloween Festival (and Haunted House)
  • Red Cross Blood Drive (Nov)
  • The Giving Tree (at Christmas)                       

Spring Semester

  • Bizarre Bazaar (Volunteer Fair - January)
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration
  • Red Cross Blood Drive (April)
  • Kid's Fest (April)
  • Project Coordinator Orientation Session (April)
  • Volunteer Awards/Celebration Luncheon (April)

Contact Desirée Wilkinson at 336-316-2460 or dwilkins@guilford.edu for more information about Project Community.