Service opportunities
Students engage in a variety of service opportunities involving charity, relationship and social justice.
Ongoing service opportunities:
Community Kitchen
Community Kitchen is a year-round service opportunity where members of the Saint Martin’s community prepare, serve and clean up dinner at the Community Kitchen in downtown Olympia on the first Friday of every month. All volunteers need to be 18 or older to join. We meet at the bottom of the Grand Staircase at Old Main by Lot S at 2:30pm and are expected to return at about 7:00pm. Transportation is provided.
Sign up to volunteer at Community Kitchen
Thurston County Food Bank
Thurston County Food Bank is a service opportunity where students volunteer by organizing food on the shelves and boxes that are given to people and families who are experiencing food insecurity. The Food Bank Core Philosophies are eliminating access barriers, prioritizing health, prioritizing children, rescuing good food from going to waste, partnership and collaboration. We meet at the bottom of the Grand Staircase at Old Main by Lot S at 1:30pm and are expected to return at about 4:30pm. Transportation is provided.
Sign up to volunteer at Thurston County Food Bank
Saint Martin's University Farm
The Saint Martin's University Farm works to care for our common home in three ways: to provide nutrient-dense, locally grown and ethically produced food within our community, especially for those in most need; to educate on sustainable agricultural practices, the relationship between good food and good health, and the responsibilities inherent within the communion of each individual with the human family and the natural world; and to build climate change resilience in the areas of food production, the creation of habitat, and the mitigation of climate change processes. We meet at the bottom of the Grand Staircase at Old Main by Lot S at 9am and are expected to return at about 12pm. Transportation is provided.
Sign up to volunteer at the Saint Martin's University Farm
