Those interested in participating in Spring Break Away must apply in early January. This project works at HOPE Community in downtown Minneapolis. HOPE acts against isolation, daily violence, drug dealing, and vacant and boarded houses by buying and renovating buildings for low-income rental. The focus of HOPE is to build a safe community and to empower its inhabitants. Past service projects have included painting, installing sheetrock, and building a playground.
Transportation is provided for volunteers.
This may include cleaning units to prepare for new tenant, moving furniture, making small repairs, and painting. Volunteers also have assisted with projects outside the CAC, such as remodeling the local Manager Inn this past summer. Neo Computer Group Regular or Sporadic Commitment Campus Neo Computers refurbishes a limited number of used computers and then resells them, for a very small price, to Carleton students who otherwise could not afford them. Most of the computers they repair are ones that the college no longer has a use for and would otherwise discard. Volunteers perform minor repairs and install necessary parts to make the computers operable.