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Alzheimer’s Association

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Alzheimer's Association

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
The purpose of this club is to raise money and awareness for the Alzheimer's
Association. During each meeting the club will present new findings within
Alzheimer's research and discuss events/ways to raise funds for the
Alzheimer's association. Finally, we will encourage participation and raise
awareness for the yearly Walk to End Alzheimer's in Brunswick.

Membership Benefits
This club will give students a platform to make a difference and bring us closer to achieving the goal of a cure for Alzheimer's. It will also educate interested members about new findings within Alzheimer's research to show the strides that are being made in the field.

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Animal Aids with Midcoast Humane

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Animal Aids with Midcoast Humane

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Animal Aids, in collaboration with Midcoast Humane, is dedicated to fostering a compassionate environment for animals while strengthening the connection between Bowdoin College and the Brunswick community. Our mission is to provide high-quality care for animals, promote responsible pet ownership, and support Midcoast Humane's efforts through volunteerism, advocacy, and outreach. We aim to engage Bowdoin students in meaningful ways, such as organizing volunteer opportunities and joint events, to help enhance animal welfare and build a lasting partnership between the college and the organization.
In addition to strengthening this relationship, Animal Aids is committed to giving back to the local community. We support Midcoast Humane by assisting with adoption events, donations for animal care, and providing a hands-on volunteer experience. Our goal is to create opportunities for Bowdoin students to get involved in animal welfare, making a positive impact on the lives of animals and people alike. Through our collective efforts, we strive to foster a caring, responsible community focused on animal care and community engagement.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Group Re-Registration
Bear Buddies

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Bear Buddies

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

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Contact: Franco Ruocco

Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
A program for children with physical and mental disabilities. Meets every Saturday for afternoon activities.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Bears and Cubs

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Bears and Cubs

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Meets with local children every other Sunday on campus to engage in a variety of activities and build trusting relationships.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Bowdoin Bear PALS

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Bowdoin Bear PALS

McKeen Center Groups - Academic, Community Service

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Volunteers work one-on-one as tutors and mentors with ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages) students in the Brunswick School District K-12. We recruit as many new members as would like to join! Please reach out to jmolina@bowdoin.edu if you have any questions or are interested in joining.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Group Re-Registration
Bowdoin Central Mentoring

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Bowdoin Central Mentoring

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Students work one-on-one as mentors to Bowdoin Central Elementary School students.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Bowdoin Collective for the Environment

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Bowdoin Collective for the Environment

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service, Environmental, Advocacy

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
The Bowdoin Collective for the Environment (BCE) is an action network of students and community partners in the greater Brunswick area working to optimize positive environmental impact and counteract the regional effects of climate change.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Bowdoin College Dance Marathon

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Bowdoin College Dance Marathon

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service, Social, Wellness, Dance

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Bowdoin College Dance Marathon is a student-led fundraising organization supporting the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital--the only children's hospital in Maine! Join us in supporting this incredible hospital and all they do to help sick kids and their families!

Membership Benefits
All year long, we will hold events to fundraise and engage with the families at the hospital.
These events will be a fun way to connect with different students and groups at Bowdoin! All our efforts will culminate sometime next semester in a multi-hour "marathon" of activities and dancing.

Lifetime membership
Group Re-Registration
Bowdoin College Music Mentors

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Bowdoin College Music Mentors

McKeen Center Groups - Multicultural Life, Advocacy

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Mentors provide free, virtual private lessons to young musicians in 2nd-12th grade. Mentors may teach flute, piano, strings, jazz, composition, etc. We are active this semester and will be accepting new mentors. Students should fill out an application at throughthestaff.org and write "Bowdoin Music Mentors" in the video submission section.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Group Re-Registration
Bowdoin Emergency Medicine Club

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Bowdoin Emergency Medicine Club

McKeen Center Groups - Academic, Community Service

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Contact: Emmy Wheatley

Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
The Bowdoin Emergency Medicine Club seeks to unite students around their interest in EMS and serve not only the Bowdoin community but the larger Brunswick and Maine communities as well. Our goal is to provide a platform for education and an opportunity for licensed students to use their skills and gain experience.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Bowdoin for Justice

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Bowdoin for Justice

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service, Advocacy

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Bowdoin for Justice partners with four different criminal justice-related organizations to facilitate community engagement opportunities for students to make meaningful change in the carceral system.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Bowdoin Preservation Collective

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Bowdoin Preservation Collective

McKeen Center Groups - Academic, Community Service, Advocacy

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
We aim to preserve the history and culture of Bowdoin College and the surrounding region. We will do this by collaborating with local organizations dedicated to historic preservation in Brunswick and beyond through, as well as creating our own educational programming. Our group aims not only to raise awareness of our region's past, but also initiate projects with a present-future focus with the goal of engaging a wide swath of the Bowdoin-Midcoast community, including those with little previous engagement with historic preservation organizations.

Membership Benefits
Members have the opportunity to engage firsthand with Bowdoin/Brunswick community history.

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Bowdoin Public Health Club

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Bowdoin Public Health Club

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
The Bowdoin Public Health Club (BPHC) works to connect students with local public-health oriented community partner organizations for individual or group volunteering opportunities. Current community partners include Harpswell Aging at Home (HAH), MCHPP, SNAP Brunswick, Adaptive Outdoor Education, and Portland Free Clinic Community(PFCC).

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Group Re-Registration
Bowdoin Rotaract Club

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Bowdoin Rotaract Club

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Bowdoin Rotaract Club aims to provide a diverse range of volunteering opportunities that are accessible to all Bowdoin students. To do so, BRC will foster positive relationships with community partners, raise awareness of local and global needs, and prioritize contributing towards sustainable solutions.

Membership Benefits
no need to be a member to participate, but need to be an active member to vote and run for officer

(1 Year)
Membership will end on 31 May 2027
Pending Approval
Bowdoin Votes

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Bowdoin Votes

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

Website

Contact: Wendy Van Damme, Email group officers

Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Bowdoin Votes is the McKeen Center's nonpartisan initiative to build a politically robust campus culture where every student develops the skills to participate fully in our democracy.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Group Re-Registration
Bowdoin Women in Science

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Bowdoin Women in Science

McKeen Center Groups - Academic, Community Service, Social, Advocacy, Sexuality, Gender and Relationships

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Bowdoin Women in Science aims to encourage women to enter scientific fields and has the greater purpose to further the equality of women working in science. This club will give women the opportunity to explore different careers and fields in science as well as highlight the importance of women in male-dominated spaces. This club is also founded with the intent to provide a safe and supportive place to discuss the challenges and hurdles of being a woman in a scientific field.
Membership is open to female- and non-binary-identifying students.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Brunswick High School Mentoring

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Brunswick High School Mentoring

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service, Social

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Contact: Email group officers

Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Brunswick High School (BHS) Mentoring is a one-on-one, social-based mentoring program that provides additional support, bonding, and friendship for local high school students who seek that extra connection beyond their schoolmates, teachers, or even family members. Such relationships have been shown to improve academic performance, socialization skills, and┬áconfidence levels—not to mention increase smile diameters. Plus, the longer a mentee-mentor relationship lasts, the larger the exponential┬ágains over time!

Partnerships have the freedom to meet flexibly during the week and to do a range of mutually agreed-upon activities, be that walking outside, playing sports, crafting art projects, learning a new hobby, playing board games, listening to music, tutoring for homework, speaking a foreign language, practicing musical instruments, dancing the night (or day) away, sharing in thoughtful conversations, teaching a topic about which you are passionate or knowledgeable, or simply just taking a break to relax! The choice is yours, but the enjoyment is for all.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Common Good Grant Program

Common Good Grant Program

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

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Contact: Email group officers

Group Not Registered Yet

Mission

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Group Re-Registration
Curtis Digital Literacy Volunteers

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Curtis Digital Literacy Volunteers

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
We run tech help sessions for the library! :D

A few times a semester, we hold open office hours in the library and help anyone who comes in with basic tasks and troubleshooting on their device. Our volunteer group increases digital literacy and connects Bowdoin students to community members. It also saves the library staff time and work!

No coding or CS knowledge is necessary. Come for a session to help out, hone your communication and teaching skills, or just to say hi to someone from Brunswick.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Friends for Adaptive Education

Friends for Adaptive Education

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Our mission is to connect Bowdoin students to the Adaptive Outdoor Education Center (in Brunswick) to allow students to connect with the neurodivergent population through skiing, climbing, trail walks, art activities etc.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Friends Fostering Leadership In Youth ( Middle School )

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Friends Fostering Leadership In Youth (Middle School)

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

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Contact: Natalie Faillace, Zellie Lipman

Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Friends Fostering Leadership in Youth began in 2012 as an organization that aims to instill leadership skills, confidence, and a sense of community in Bath Middle School students. We specifically support girls and nonbinary students, and help guide them through their transition into teenagers.

Membership Benefits
Have the opportunity to connect with Maine students and understand what it's like growing up in Bath. As young adults, we all have lessons we've learned with time and the different environments we've been exposed to. Come share those and apply them as fit to the students in your mentor role.

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Girls Who Code

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Girls Who Code

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Working with the nonprofit Girls Who Code, we teach the fundamentals of programming to girls at Brunswick High School (and hopefully other highschools in the area) to support and increase the number of women in computer science.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Group Re-Registration
Maine College Circle

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Maine College Circle

McKeen Center Groups - Advocacy

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Bowdoin volunteers working "to inform and inspire early aspirations, to empower the youth of rural Maine to build a brighter future for themselves and for their communities".

Membership Benefits
What are the commitments?
We have weekly meetings to discuss various independent and group projects.

What are your projects?
Website: collegeanswers.weebly.com. We answer kids' questions about college
Newsletter: monthly page of college news/information sent out to schools
Videos: college promotional and fun videos to show what college life is like
Video-conferences: connect directly with rural educators and students
Visits: drive to a rural partner school to engage in a project with kids
Campus events (panels, discussions, etc.): bring light to issues of rural education at Bowdoin
College Knowledge Bowl: a yearly trivia tournament for students from our partner schools held on Bowdoin's campus
Future of Maine Scholarships: We read scholarship submitted by 3rd-5th graders focused on their aspirations for college.

Lifetime membership
Group Re-Registration
Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program Volunteers

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Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program Volunteers

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program Volunteers organizes students to work in Brunswick's local food bank, soup kitchen, and other programs offered through MCHPP. We also hope to have thought-provoking conversations on and bring awareness to food justice issues in Mid-Coast Maine and beyond.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Multilingual Mainers

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Multilingual Mainers

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

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Contact: Margaret Boyle

Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Multilingual Mainers is a learning partnership between Bowdoin College undergraduates and PreK-2 students and families in Brunswick, Maine. Through daily lunches, classroom visits, and language mentorships, the program is designed to ignite a passion and enthusiasm for a lifetime of language learning. The curriculum promotes critical-thinking skills and provides age-appropriate tools to combat xenophobia, racism and intolerance. Visit our website to learn more: https://research.bowdoin.edu/multilingual-mainers/

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Next Steps

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Next Steps

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Partners with Brunswick High School guidance staff and the Chewonki Waypoint Program to support high school students navigating the process of postsecondary planning. We host students on campus two times a semester, including giving a campus tour and eating a meal in the dining halls.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Oasis Free Clinics Student Volunteers

Oasis Free Clinics Student Volunteers

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Oasis Free Clinics is a non-profit free clinic in Brunswick that serves low-income and uninsured individuals. Students support both non-clinical and clinical needs of the clinic.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Partners for World Health Student Volunteering

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Partners for World Health Student Volunteering

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
To provide Bowdoin College students the opportunity to support PWH’s mission to facilitate the collection and distribution of high quality medical supplies and equipment for the benefit of individuals and communities in need, both locally and internationally, within their communities.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Polar Mail

Polar Mail

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

Website

Contact: Zhiyan Xu

Group Not Registered Yet

Mission

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Red Cross Blood Drives

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Red Cross Blood Drives

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Students organize and recruit volunteers for a minimum of two campus-wide blood drives per year.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Sunnybrook Village Volunteering

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Sunnybrook Village Volunteering

McKeen Center Groups - Wellness, Advocacy

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Volunteers spend time with the residents of the Sunnybrook Village retirement and assisted-living community. In the past, we have played card games, listened to music, or just hung out. Our volunteers aim to create a warm and lively environment at Sunnybrook by socializing with residents.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval
Tedford Housing Volunteers

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Tedford Housing Volunteers

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
On a weekly basis, Tedford Housing volunteers play with children living in the family shelter of Tedford Housing. We hope to inspire creativity, build self-confidence, and generate relationships with the children through intentional arts and crafts activities and games.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Group Re-Registration
Volunteer Lawyers Project

Volunteer Lawyers Project

McKeen Center Groups - Community Service

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Group Not Registered Yet

Mission
Members work with the Maine Volunteer Lawyers Project to provide legal options to people below the poverty line.

Membership Benefits

This group is restricted to Group Officers only

Lifetime membership
Pending Approval