Community-Engaged Learning: Organizations
Service Opportunities that Connect Learning with Service
There are many opportunities to serve in the community through partnerships with local organizations.
Featured Organizations
TOTAL HOURS SERVED
727.5
Featured Organizations
Students worked 727.5 total hours serving Carroll and the broader Helena community for the Spring Semester of 2026.
- Adaptive Performance Center seeks to create a non-judgmental, safe community space where veterans, active service members, and individuals of all backgrounds can come together to move their bodies and heal their minds. Our center is designed to be a supportive, inclusive space for veterans and active service members to connect, share experiences, and build bonds with one another. By fostering a strong, supportive network, we empower individuals to find strength and solidarity, knowing that they are part of something bigger than themselves.
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- Our hospice services place importance on the comfort of every patient living with a terminal illness. Our caring professionals are dedicated to providing not just physical care, but spiritual and emotional support to every patient and their loved ones.
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- Family outreach serves people with developmental disabilities and their families in western Montana. We believe that all people have the right to participate in education, friendship, and community to achieve a full life. While we began our journey by helping families with young children, we have since expanded the scope of programs we offer to potentially cover and individual’s entire lifespan.
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- Once a “home for unwed mothers” who were generally sent away in secrecy and shame to have their babies and “give them up” for adoption, we have now adapted and changed to the meet the most current needs of our generation, giving families the opportunity to heal, grow, and thrive together.
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- The Friendship Center is a safe haven for those affected by domestic violence, sexual assualt, and stalking, cultivating a community where everyone can flourish.
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- God's Love Seeks to provide emergency shelter, three meals a day, clothing, hygiene, and feminine products, access to medical care, and more as needed.
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- Good Samaritan Ministries, motivated by Catholic social teaching, works in our community to advance family life, human dignity, and the common good. We provide services to meet the physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs of individuals and families of all faiths, especially those most in need.
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- Growing Friends of Helena is all-volunteer urban tree-planting organization in Helena, Montana. Its purpose is to enrich the quality of life in the Helena, Montana area with extensive planting of suitable, attractive, diverse, and well-cared-for trees and shrubs. Growing Friends works by funding and conducting planting projects, by educating the public and decision-makers, and by encouraging and assisting local governments.
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- Habitat for Humanity envisions a world where everyone has a decent place to live and its mission is to bring people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
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- The Helena Area Community Foundation inspires people to make a difference by encouraging the spirit of giving to provide resources that benefit present and future generations in our community.
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- Helena Food Share seeks to serve our neighbors in need by providing food in a respectful and dignified way and, by working with others, eliminate hunger in the greater Helena area.
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- A family owned and operated company, Helena Pointe is passionate about giving seniors a delightful retirement experience and their adult children peace of mind.
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- L&C Humane seeks to provide humane shelter and compassionate care for the lost, negelcted, and surrndered animals of the greater Helena community while providing services and education to strengthen the human-animal bond.
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- At the Lewis & Clark Literacy Council, we believe literacy is the key to unlocking potential and creating opportunities. For decades, we have been dedicated to improving lives through education and supporting our community with essential literacy programs.
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- Inspire connections to the landscapes, water, wildlife, recreation, and working ranches of west-central Montana through conservation, now and for future generations.
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- Shodair Children's Hospital seeks to create a healthy and hopeful Montana through specialized psychiatric care for children and adolescents, along with a nationally recognized genetics program providing care for all ages.
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- It’s the smile you share greeting visitors and escorting them to their destination. It’s the kind words or listening ear you provide to patients in the Cancer Treatment Center or for those without family nearby. It’s the camaraderie you share with St. Peter’s Health staff assisting them with the behind-the-scenes work they do. Our volunteers are a vital, dynamic group that devotes individual skills and care, in order to support the purpose and services of St. Peter’s Health.
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- Uniting resources, organizations and people to transfor our community for good. We break down barriers for the local nonprofits, local government, and businesses in our community. We provide the opportunity for people to work together to achieve more than any single person or organization can do alone.
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- The Wild Divide Chapter supports Wild Montana’s mission by providing community outreach and education that inspire residents of Lewis and Clark, Broadwater, Jefferson, and Powell Counties to protect wild public lands and waters around Helena, including the Big Belts, Elkhorns, and the Continental Divide.
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- If you've got a heart for helping at-risk youth in the Helena area, this might just be your calling. We are looking for a diverse group of all ages and backgrounds to build up the strength and safety of our community through Restorative Justice.
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