ILA Service-Learning Projects
Leaders who significantly impact their community help shape a more vibrant, innovative and resilient society. Their influence extends beyond immediate improvements associated with the project, laying the groundwork for long-term prosperity and stability.
ILA strengthens Terry’s mission of educating and inspiring future leaders through servant-leadership by utilizing service-learning projects (SLPs). These projects allow students to apply their strengths while addressing real-world challenges faced by nonprofits or local communities, making an impact in the state of Georgia. Through their involvement in SLPs, students gain hands-on experience in problem-solving, project management, and effective collaboration. Most importantly, ILA students experience firsthand the leadership concepts of “contributing to the community and giving back to others.”
ILA students worked with former UGA football player Malcolm Mitchell to promote his nonprofit Share the Magic, a literary foundation encouraging students to find books that inspire them, during a reading rally at Barrow Elementary School.
Our Impact
Some of the organizations that ILA students have worked with include:
- Archway
- Athens Area Humane Society
- Athens Technical College
- Athens Wellness Clinic
- Casa de Amistad
- Community Engagement Development and Strategy Guide (CRC)
- Clute Barrow Nelson Foundation
- Downtown Ministries
- Empowr
- Encourage HER Academy
- Extra Special People
- First Love Kids
- Fresh Wind Recovery
- GA Options
- Hart County Community Theatre
- Heads Up For Harry
- Innovative Start Organization
- Jam for Cam
- Juvenile Offender Advocate Inc
- Kidz2Leaders
- King’s Ridge Christian School
- LaAmistad
- Let All the Big Dawgs Eat
- Life League
- Literacy Action
- Live Well, Play Together
- Love Craft
- Newton County
- Paradise Atlanta Westside (PAWKids)
- Share the Magic Foundation
- Sparrow’s Nest
- The Baby Pantry
- The Cancer Foundation
- The Cottage
- WRK