Almost every non-profit agency needs shortened, summarized articles for newsletters. The students must learn how to take oral data and transfer this information to the written essay form. Almost every nonprofit agency preserves historical data for its clients. Most residents in senior centers, nursing homes, hospices, and the like love to review a classic text, and welcome the opportunity to talk over meanings and impressions with new readers. The students need to serve as historians as well as read what historians have written.
Every senior residence has oral history waiting to be recorded and processed.
Every residential facility needs to have its water supply checked for potability. The students need to know how to synthesize relationships in understandable charts and graphs. Every non-profit organization's annual report needs explanatory charts and graphs. All of the service learning experiences described in this article give new duties to volunteer administrators. There is not much literature about service learning.