Community Service

About Community Service

Do you have a way for the Fellows to engage with our community through community service?  Please let us know!

A key piece of the Mandela Fellowship experience is to provide service to the community. Ideally, community service should connect with the Institute theme whenever possible. As with site visits, Fellows should be briefed on the community needs the organization fills and be given an overview of how the organization operates prior to the service activity.

Community service should be hands-on and include activities that broaden Fellow interaction with Americans, such as serving meals at a homeless shelter, visiting with long-term patients at a local nursing home, participating in a community park clean-up, or mentoring/tutoring teens in summer school.