Jun 14, 2022
Recap: 2022 Community Leadership Awards
For the first time in two years, the DDCE and the Office of the President hosted the annual…
Dec 20, 2019
A Miracle on the West Mall: Nonprofit Finds Perfect Marrow Match at UT Volunteer Fair
Lensa Jeudy (far left) with her Gift of Life ambassador team at the UT Volunteer Fair Approximately every three minutes…
Nov 26, 2019
Suchitra Gururaj
Suchitra Gururaj, serves as assistant vice president for Community Engagement in the DDCE, where she provides vision and strategy…
Sep 10, 2018
DDCE to Offer Monthly Community Drop-In Hours Across Austin
Beginning September 28, the University of Texas Division of Diversity and Community Engagement will hold Community Drop-in Hours the last…
Feb 06, 2017
Save the Date! Next Front Porch Gathering is Feb. 28
In the past two decades, East Austin has undergone a radical demographic shift due to the process of gentrification. As…
May 05, 2016
Viva el Mariachi! UIL State Mariachi Festival attracts high schools from across the state
Ben Bolt-Palito Blanco ISD students compete at the 2016 Mariachi State Festival. Budding musicians from high schools across Texas competed…
May 05, 2016
Closing the Health Gap Between East and West
Tracee Hall, Dell Medical School director of public health and community engagement; and Dr. William Lawson, director of community health…
May 05, 2016
Q&A: Meet an Austin City Hall Fellow
Each fall, a new group of undergraduates begin their year of service in the Austin City Hall Fellows Program.
Jan 13, 2016
Give the Gift of Time: Longhorn Center for Community Engagement Launches 50K Service Hours Campaign
Interested in volunteering at a local nonprofit, but not sure where to start? The Longhorn Center for Community Engagement (LCCE) can help. A list of volunteer opportunities can be found on utvolunteers.org, UT’s service database powered by Austin startup GivePulse. This volunteer management database streamlines the volunteering process, offering a range of resources that benefit both nonprofits and volunteers—from tracking service hours to coordinating group efforts to calculating the economic impact of a service event. Through utvolunteers.org, the LCCE is tracking its impact on dozens of local nonprofits. The goal is to reach 50,000 hours of service during the 2015-16 academic year—and double that amount by next year. We caught up with two students who are helping the LCCE surpass this university-wide goal. Both are leaders of the UT Service Scholars, a partnership of the LCCE and the LBJ School of Public Affairs that requires students to complete 300 hours of community service prior to graduation. Name: Abby Hull Major: Biology Senior, College of Natural Sciences Activities and Programs: UT Service Scholars President, Special Olympics event volunteer, Soles4Souls chapter member and volunteer Where do you volunteer? I’ve done most of my volunteering with the Special Olympics, and recently I started volunteering at Dell Children’s Hospital. I benefitted from playing a lot of sports growing up, so I really want help people get involved in sports and activities at a young age. How does utvolunteers.org make volunteering more convenient? I really like that it eliminates a lot of paperwork. I no longer have to remember to bring a sheet to someone to verify my hours at a service event. I can do that all online. It’s so easy to log in and record my impacts, get contact info from people and create events that people can sign up for. If you’re interested in volunteering for an event, all you have to do is go to the website and it covers all the details.