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Welcome to the Pace Center

The Pace Center is Princeton University’s central resource for civic engagement. It supports efforts by all members of the extended University community to identify and act on the problems of society.

Pace connects individuals and groups with opportunities to thoughtfully address civic problems and have an impact through activities including direct volunteer service, civic action break trips, social entrepreneurship, political action, public service internships and fellowships, and engaged academics.

The Pace Center includes Community House and the Student Volunteer Council (SVC).

  • Community House volunteers serve the educational, cultural, and recreational needs of underserved low-income minority children and their families in Princeton, with the goal of closing the achievement gap that separates those children from their advantaged neighbors.
     
  • The SVC is a student-led organization that sponsors more than 40 weekly volunteer projects including tutoring, restoring houses, organizing blood drives, serving food at soup kitchens, and visiting the elderly. SVC also sponsors break trips and Community Action, a pre-orientation program for incoming freshmen.

Announcements

Inter-Action 2010 Registration
Online registrations are now being accepted for Inter-Action 2010, a three-day intensive immersion in service, learning, and fun over Intersession break, brought to you by USG, the Pace Center, SVC, and Community House. The program will run from Sunday Jan. 24, through Wednesday Jan. 27. It is open to all undergraduate students and is free for all participants, offering a high-impact experience for students regardless of previous civic engagement experience.
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Pace Council for Civic Values (PCCV)
The Pace Council for Civic Values (PCCV), a selective student group affiliated with the Pace Center at Princeton University, is comprised of civically engaged students who promote greater civic awareness and action within the University. Applications are now being accepted. The application deadline is Friday, Dec. 11, at noon.
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Students 'break out' from campus to learn about civic action
In the wake of a tornado that leveled Greensburg, Kan., in May 2007, local residents forged an ambitious plan to rebuild the small agricultural town with a focus on sustainability. For a group of Princeton students who traveled there over fall break, this effort became an important lesson both in environmental awareness and civic engagement. A dozen students spent the first week of November in Greensburg on one of seven Breakout Princeton civic engagement trips.
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Breakout Princeton Trip Proposals and Trip Leader Applications
Deadline: Tuesday, Dec. 1, Midnight Breakout Princeton trip proposals and applications for trip leader are now being accepted for Spring 2010. Breakout Princeton Civic Action Trips are week-long opportunities to learn about and take action on important public issues with a group of peers. For information and links to the applications: pace.princeton.edu/breakout.
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Davis Projects for Peace
Davis Projects for Peace
Davis Projects for Peace is a national competition aimed at building world peace by encouraging students to design their own grassroots projects for peace that they themselves will implement in the summer of 2010. This opportunity is open all Princeton University undergraduates. Projects judged to be most promising and achievable will be awarded $10,000 each. The first application deadline is Monday, Dec. 14.
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USG Supports Student Service
In April 2009, Princeton University students passed a USG referendum to redirect approximately $90,000 from a fall concert and other activities to support student-initiated service projects coordinated by the Pace Center. A steering committee of 17 student leaders has recommended a series of new initiatives giving Princeton students opportunities to work in partnership to help local communities that have been particularly affected by the economic downturn.
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2009 Annual Report
The Pace Center supported approximately 1,600 opportunities for civic engagement in 2008-2009 through activities including direct volunteer service, civic action break trips, social entrepreneurship, political action, public service internships and fellowships, volunteer teaching and tutoring, and engaged learning. Read more about Pace Center programs including Breakout Princeton, Community Action, Community House, and the Student Volunteers Council (SVC) in the 2009 Annual Report.
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