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.
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.
Living in Service to Others
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Students organize fundraiser for LA wildfire victims
The disastrous spate of January wildfires that leveled an estimated 18,000 metro Los Angeles-area homes and businesses—dramatically disrupting the lives of more than 200,000 residents and causing $250 billion in financial losses—simultaneously motivated two Boston College undergraduates, whose homes are 2,000 miles apart, to form an on-campus alliance to raise funds for the victims.
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 that attend the Post Grad Service Fair each year
