Scholarship selection committees look for candidates who have exceptional minds and also exceptional hearts. Students who engage themselves in volunteer activities, community activism and outreach display the sort of character deserving of national recognition.

Ripon College is a great place to develop your volunteer spirit! The opportunities for community engagement are almost unlimited here.

• Contact the Office of Community Engagement to sign up for on-going volunteer events
• Participate in an “Alternative Spring Break”
• Enroll in courses that use service-learning pedagogies
• Lead your living group, club or team in a new philanthropy project
• Join a civic organization in the City of Ripon or in your hometown
• Become an advocate for a non-profit organization by joining the Ripon Speakers Bureau
• Become a mentor to a child, through an after-school program like BRAVE or through Big Brothers/Big Sisters
• Take the initiative to organize a food or clothing drive on campus
• Raise awareness for a cause you believe in by hosting an informational event on campus
• Spend a Maymester in Jamaica with the Blue Mountain Project
• Intern with a not-for-profit organization

Whether you someday win a national scholarship or not, volunteering will enrich your life!