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Community Service


The SCAD community is creative, caring and committed to making the world a better place. Through class projects, university-wide initiatives, student organizations, and endeavors by individual students, faculty and staff, SCAD's dedication to service impacts communities across the globe.

Ongoing
  • Service Opportunities for Students offers myriad ways for SCAD students to become involved in the community.
  • SCAD athletics teams participate in local sports clinics and races and hold recycling drives.
  • SCAD regularly holds blood drives.
  • Historic preservation students are working on a long-term project to locate and restore slave cabins on Ossabaw Island.
  • Each holiday, SCAD holds a Secret Santa drive for children at Union Mission and St. Mary's Home.
2008-09 academic year
  • SCAD joined retailer Jeffrey Kalinsky for Fashion Cares 2008, a fundraiser to benefit the Susan G. Komen for the Cure-Greater Atlanta Affiliate and the Atlanta AIDS Partnership Fund.
  • Advertising design professors collaborate on a re-branding effort for Union Mission in Savannah.
  • Students from SCAD-Atlanta created large sculptures of nutritious food, which were on display at Imagine It! The Children's Museum of Atlanta.
  • SCAD joined Children's Healthcare of Atlanta in celebrating holiday traditions with patients and their families; kicking off the season was the Honorary Tree Party at SCAD-Atlanta Nov. 17.
  • The SCAD Honeybees, the university's executive singing ensemble, performed holiday music on behalf of Savannah's Habitat for Humanity at the Oglethorpe Mall in December.
  • SCAD Presents Holiday Matinee, a free Savannah event, featured screenings of "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer" and "The Polar Express" in 3-D, refreshments and more. SCAD also served free hot beverages and holiday cookies at Bobbie's and Streamliner diners for members of the community.
  • The Fall 2008 SPLASH event in Savannah included volunteer projects for Habitat for Humanity, Ogeechee Canal Park, Garrison Elementary, Healing and Education through Art at Memorial Health Hospital and the Humane Society.
  • Historic preservation professor Jeanne Lambin and the students in her Downtown Revitalization and Preservation Planning class were nominated as Advocates of the Year by Buy Local Savannah for the SAV LOCAL campaign, a shop local campaign created by both classes to encourage people in Savannah to support locally owned businesses in downtown Savannah.
  • Architecture and historic preservation students and faculty have rehabilitated the historic Kennedy Pharmacy on East Broughton Street, in conjunction with the Isaiah Davenport House.
2007-08 academic year
  • The interior design class Interior Materials II designed a new interior for Park Place, an emergency shelter in Savannah for adolescents ages 11-17 and their families. SCAD's graphic design department designed the fundraising fliers, which invited the public to participate in a housewarming registry at local businesses.
  • SCAD-Atlanta interior design students completed a plan for roof vegetation at the Woodruff Arts Center.
  • SCAD-Atlanta interior design students designed corporate office space for the National Black Arts Festival.
  • Master of Architecture students traveled to Kingsland, Ga., to survey the downtown for a master plan they intend to put together for the area.
  • SCAD fibers and furniture design students participated in an interdisciplinary class project for Union Mission's Growing Hope project. The goal was to provide sustainable bedding solutions for people in non-traditional living situations.
  • Nonprofit organization Harambee House partnered with a Poster Design class to promote a lead-poisoning awareness campaign.
  • "In Dire Need," a short film by undergraduate film and television students Colin Levy and Roque Smith-Nonini, won second place ($5,000) in the Public Service Announcements for International Disasters competition. "The Can Kick," a print ad by undergraduate metals and jewelry student Tanner Woodman, won third place.
  • SCAD-Atlanta student photographers volunteered to capture images for EARTH HOUR, which was organized by the World Wildlife Fund.
  • Printmaking students are involved in a pen pal project with Artists for Charity, a nonprofit organization in Ethiopia operated by alumna Abezash Tamerat (B.F.A., photography, 2005). The SCAD students are using drawings made by HIV-positive orphans to create editions of prints, which will be shipped back to Ethiopia and sold to raise funds for the program. The pen pal project has been supported with donations from the SCAD printmaking department.
  • At its Open Studio Night, the fibers department raffled a collaborative quilt, with proceeds of $800 going to Union Mission's Growing Hope Artisan's Cooperative.
  • Historic preservation students performed a Historic American Building Survey on the Berrien House on Broughton Street.
  • For her M.F.A. thesis exhibition, painting student Marsha Kirk created an installation using 70,000 pennies. After the installation, she donated the money to Court Appointed Special Advocates.
  • The Honeybees performed at a Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Rally in Atlanta.
  • Students from the National Organization of Minority Architects volunteered to paint, clean, clear weeds and perform other services at Thunderbolt Elementary.
  • Students created and installed a mural in Backus Children's Hospital.
  • The professional education department hosted a pastel workshop for high school art teachers.
  • SCAD hosted a Focus the Nation Teach-in about environmental initiatives for the college and local community.
  • Graphic design students designed a memorial for the Ist Battalion 75th Infantry Army Rangers.
  • SCAD-Atlanta fashion students created garments to be auctioned by the Lighthouse Foundation, a nonprofit organization that recycles eyewear and distributes it to people who can't afford glasses.
Summer 2007
  • SCAD-Atlanta participated in Fashion Cares, a benefit for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and the Atlanta AIDS Partnership.
2006-07 academic year
  • Historic preservation students rebuilt and restored rooms in Unitarian Universalist Church.
  • SCAD participated in the Clothesline Project to combat violence against women.
  • Service Opportunities for Students, Inter-hall Council, the residence life and housing department, student involvement and dining services co-sponsored Hunger and Homeless Awareness Week.
  • The department of student recreation and fitness raised awareness of breast cancer and helped fight hunger by collecting cans of Campbell's special-edition pink-label soup cans and donating them to a local charity.
  • Students created murals for Savannah Commons, a senior living center, in a section that catered to Alzheimer's patients.
  • School of Building Arts students, faculty and staff have made multiple trips to the Gulf Coast area of Mississippi to help assess damage from Hurricane Katrina, preserve historic landmarks and assist the communities in rebuilding.
  • The Performance Ensemble participated in a benefit for the Savannah Children's Theatre, a nonprofit that offers theater experiences to local children and families.
  • Students raised awareness and funds for various community service organizations in a speech class.
  • Architecture and interior design students traveled to Atlanta to work on an inner-city middle school in partnership with Hands on Atlanta.
  • Students in museum studies courses sorted materials to create a museum for the historic Bethesda Home for Boys in Savannah.
  • Advertising design students created projects to benefit America's Second Harvest Food Bank, Hope House of Savannah, Old Savannah City Mission, One Family, the National Council on Homelessness and Union Mission.
  • Advertising design and film and television students collaborated on a public service announcement for the nonprofit Women's Independence Network.
  • Industrial design students worked with Costa Rican organic coffee communities to help create sustainable farming and production plans.
  • Project Green students volunteered in a community garden.
  • Historic preservation students restored a vault in the Catholic Cemetery for the cemetery preservation society.
  • Historic preservation students and faculty designed plans and raised funds to transform the historic Fort Screven Post Theater on Tybee Island, slated to reopen as the Tybee Post Theater.
  • SCAD presented family-friendly Films in Forsyth.
  • The SCAD Spring Egg Hunt, organized by the residence life and housing department, provided a social outlet for children from local agencies.
  • Fibers students led a quilting project with East Broad Street Elementary.
  • Five TV and five radio public service spots were broadcast as part of the "Read it Loud! Savannah" campaign. SCAD advertising design and photography students and faculty developed the spots.
  • Foundation studies students painted a 25-by-9-foot mural of sun, foliage and architectural details on a courtyard wall at Savannah Commons.
Additional community service
  • Students volunteered at the Sheep to Shawl Festival, a fundraiser for the Oatland Island Wildlife Center.
  • SCAD provided printing for the Savannah Arts Academy.
  • SCAD donated art to Union Mission.
  • SCAD printed save-the-date cards, a newsletter, invitations and dinner booklets for the Frank Callen Boys and Girls Club.
  • SCAD contributed speakers and 200 pens to the May Howard Elementary School.
  • SCAD donated food to Old Savannah City Mission.
  • SCAD provided printing for Interracial Interfaith Community Inc.
  • SCAD printed posters and brochures for the Fall Down Classic, a miniature golf tournament to benefit Senior Citizens Inc.
  • Students in the Role of Graphic Design in Social Awareness graduate-level class worked with the Boys and Girls Club, a Savannah woman who is establishing a shelter for homeless women, and All Walks of Life, a community-based project that uses hip-hop and poetry to reach disadvantaged youth.
  • SCAD-Atlanta staff delivered baskets of food to families of baseball players injured in the Bluffton (Ohio) University bus accident.
  • In Atlanta, historic preservation students assessed and began work on the historic Wren's Nest, home of Joel Chandler Harris.


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