Civic engagement activities organized and sponsored directly by the Pace Center include:

• Community House
  Community House volunteers work to close the achievement gap that separates low-income minority students from their advantaged neighbors in local schools by providing programs that bolster early childhood literacy, promote the mastery of fundamental academic skills, and create early awareness of post-secondary opportunities for underserved minority youth.

• Student Volunteers Council (SVC)
  The SVC is a student-led organization that sponsors more than 40 weekly volunteer projects with community organizations in Princeton, Trenton, and surrounding areas. The SVC also organizes Community Action, a pre-orientation service program for incoming freshmen.

• Prison Teaching Initiative
  Through the Prison Teaching Initiative, volunteers teach college-credit-bearing courses at the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility in Yardville and at the Albert C. Wagner Youth Correctional Facility in Bordentown. Another program sponsored in part by the Pace Center is the Petey Greene Prisoner Assistance Program sends volunteers to provide basic-skills tutoring in math, reading, and writing at the Albert C. Wagner Youth Correctional Facility.

• Breakout Princeton Civic Action Trips
  Breakout Princeton trips are week-long opportunities to learn about and take action on important public issues with other Princeton students.
  

• Inter-Action 2011
  Tackling learning gaps in local schools.

• Internships
  Public service internships offer opportunities for students to apply what they have learned in the classroom to real-world situations, develop leadership skills, and contribute to the organizations and communities where they work.

• Davis Projects for Peace
  Davis Projects for Peace is an invitation to undergraduates at American colleges and universities in the Davis United World College Scholars Program (of which Princeton is one) to design their own grassroots projects for peace that they themselves will implement in the summer of 2012.

• Fellowships
  The Pace Center coordinates two-year postgraduate fellowships with nonprofit organizations that aim to protect the environment and build environmental sustainability, bring an environmental focus to building community capacity and increasing the self-sufficiency of community residents, or deal with prisoner reentry issues. Fellows gain valuable professional experience while exploring a career in the public interest and making a genuine contribution toward advancing the organizations’ objectives.

• Community Action
  The Community Action program introduces freshmen to Princeton and the community through an immersive week of service before orientation begins. CA students live in the same communities where they build and refurbish houses, cook and serve food in soup kitchens, labor in community gardens, and work with local children.

• Pace Council on Civic Values (PCCV)
  The Pace Council for Civic Values (PCCV) is a selective student group affiliated with the Pace Center composed of civically engaged students who promote greater civic awareness and action within Princeton University.