The Volunteer and Service Learning Center is the primary portal for all service activity offered at Boston College, with a strong commitment to the Greater Boston community. We support the education and formation of our students by promoting conscientious service in the context of Catholic social teaching and contemporary Jesuit education.


Explore Our Offerings

Service Immersion

Boston College offers opportunities for real-life, community-based learning experiences both at home and abroad.

Advocacy Programs

The VSLC offers programs and supports both student and faculty/staff initiatives that seek to create change and lead to greater social justice for the most vulnerable among us.

Grants and Funding

Learn more about funding opportunities, including point drives, service and justice grants, BC legacy grants, and more.

Advising

The VSLC helps students discover ways they can offer themselves in service to others, both during their time on the Heights and after graduation.


Volunteer Student Voices

Meet some of our students and hear why they volunteer and find it so fulfilling.



VSLC by the numbers

$2 million

Amount raised by BC Relay For Life for the American Cancer Society (since 2008)

300

Students engaged as mentors in the BC BIGS program

45

Number of Post Grad Service Programs who attend the Post Grad Service Fair each year


Red Bandanna on 9/11 memorial

Remembering Welles Remy Crowther '99

Every year, the BC community honors "the Man in the Red Bandanna," a hero who died saving the lives of others on September 11, 2001.

Learn more about Welles