1. Alternative Spring Breaks
Serve. Lead. Inspire.

2. USC Alternate Breaks organizes community service-learning trips
during university breaks. These trips are both local and national, and
consist of a student group, a team leader, and a faculty advisor.
The Alternate Breaks goal is for students to gain new perspectives on
society as well as valuable life experience in exchange for their work
towards meeting community needs.

3. Eight Values of
Alternative Break Trips
 Strong Direct Service
 Alcohol and Other Drug-Free
 Diversity
 Orientation
 Education
 Training
 Reflection
 Reorientation

4. Disaster Relief
New Orleans, LA
• Historic Ninth Ward
district of New Orleans.
• Still experiencing the
aftermath of Hurricane
Katrina.
• Lower Nine works to re-
establish the residency in
this poverty driven
community.
Volunteers will be helping
restore and rebuild homes.
Lowernine.org

5. Animal Rescue
Hubert, NC
• Possumwood Acres
Wildlife Sanctuary
specializes in rehabilitation
for small
mammals, birds, and
reptiles.
• Educate the public about
local wildlife, ecology, and
environmental awareness.
Volunteers will help take
observations of local
wildlife, educate
visitors, and assist with
animal-care.
possumwoodacres.org

6. Poverty
West Palm Beach, FL
• C.R.O.S. Ministries is a non-
profit that collaborates with
people of different faiths and
backgrounds to create
solutions for unmet needs.
• Provides camps for
children, emergency food
pantries, a soup kitchen, and
harvest produce donated to
the local food bank.
Volunteers will be
gleaning, working at the local
food pantry, and helping with
the caring kitchen.
crosministries.org

7. Disaster Relief
Tuscaloosa, AL
• Area still devastated by the
April 2011 tornados.
• Volunteer Reception Center
seeks to continuously match
the unmet needs of storm
victims to resources offered by
volunteer groups.
• Direct interaction with
residents who have been there
for every step of the recovery
process.
Volunteer activities include
debris
cleanup, rebuilding, assisting
citizens, and more.

8. Environmental
Awareness
Merritt Island, FL
• Environmentally Endangered
Lands Program was established
to protect the natural habitats of
Brevard County.
• Acquires environmentally
sensitive lands for
conservation, passive
recreation, and environmental
education.
• Preserve biological diversity.
Volunteers will collaborate with
various organizations to
conserve the
environment, while keeping it
both people-friendly and
animal-friendly.
facebook.com/

9. Poverty
Nashville, TN
• Martha O'Bryan Center serves
to empower
children, youth, and adults in
poverty to transform their lives
through
work, education, employment,
and fellowship.
• Enables vulnerable families to
overcome the many obstacles
limiting them from living
healthy, full lives.
Volunteers will work on
various projects including
cleaning, beautification, paintin
g, gardening, etc.

10. Trip Information
 Spring Break: March 9-16, 2013
 Price: $150-200 per person
 Transportation: 15 passenger van
 Trip Leaders- Student Trip Leader & Faculty/Staff
Leader
 Lodging

11. Winter Break
LBGT Advocacy and
Awareness
Washington, DC
January 5-11, 2013
•Focus on advocacy and
awareness.
•Serve with Food and
Friends, a nonprofit that
provides meals and groceries
to people with life-
threatening illnesses.
•Meet with organizations like
Amnesty International, the
Human Rights
Campaign, National Center
for Transgender Equality, and
more.
foodandfriends.org

12. Fall Break
Homelessness: Habitat for
Humanity
Johns Island, SC
October 17-21, 2012
•Tasks included: installing
doors, painting, caulking, and
installing baseboards around
the perimeter of several
rooms, building the frames
for several roofs, etc.
•Worked with future
homeowners.
seaislandhabitat.org

13. Application
 Please list any leadership and service experiences you have been
involved with at USC and/or elsewhere (include dates). Choose
one of these activities and explain how it impacted your life.
 What motivates you to participate in an Alternative Break
experience?
 How do you see yourself and your skill set serving and/or
contributing to the group and to the community you will serve?
 As our Alternative Break trips will focus on the following social
issues: Disaster Relief, Poverty, Environmental
Awareness, Animal rescue. Please select two of these issues that
you feel most passionate about and write a paragraph about each
explaining why you feel this way? *

14. Application

15. Important Dates
Applications due on January 23
Notified by February

16. AB Council
 Positions Include:
 Trip Leader Development Director
 Marketing and Recruitment Director
 Financial Director
 Special Events Director
 Applications will be available March 18th

17. Questions?

18. Contact
 Email: saserve@mailbox.sc.edu
 Office Phone: (803) 777-8198
 Website:
http://www.sa.sc.edu/communityservice/alternative-break-trips/
 Twitter: ServeCarolina
 Facebook: ServeCarolina

19. Thank You!
Serve. Lead. Inspire.