Service work may occur individually or in groups. Service activities are open to the entire Mount community, with students, seminarians, and employees often joining together to help those in need. During break periods students work with organizations such as L'Arche and Habitat for Humanity, and periodically, travel to other countries to work with the poor. A Hunger Awareness Meal, involving hundred of participants, raises money to fight hunger and serves as an educational forum on this worldwide problem. The America Reads Initiative enables some students to receive work study assignments as tutors in local schools.
Students also have the opportunity to work in service learning placements.
Some courses offer the one credit option in service learning. The service learning credit is earned along with the designated credits of the host course. Villa Saint Michael - Set your own hours to visit retired Daughters of Charity at their retirement home in Emmitsburg. The success of volunteer community service activities rests in large part on the efforts of students who develop leadership, organizational, and interpersonal skills by serving as leaders of service events, programs and clubs. These leaders work with the Director of Community Service and Service Learning on the Service Ministries Committee to discuss new ideas, plan and promote service activities, reflect on service experiences, and lend support to one another.