The Buddies Program is a campus-based volunteer group that pairs a Grinnell student with an elementary school child.
Buddies usually spend two or three hours a week together.
The Buddies Program used to be called the Davis Buddies Program, because it matched Grinnell students with children from only Davis Elementary School. However, under the direction of Lindsay Hagy '00, the program now includes children from Fairview and Bailey Park Elementary Schools. When she became director in 1996, there were only five Buddies. The next year, there were 40. Now there are 60.