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  What is Alternative Break?  

• An alternative break program places teams of college students in communities to engage in community service and experiential learning during their winter or spring break.
• Students perform short term projects for community agencies and learn about issues such as literacy, poverty, racism, hunger, homelessness and the environment.
• The objectives of an alternative break program are to involve college students in community-based service projects and to give students opportunities to learn about the problems faced by members of communities with whom they otherwise may have had little or no direct contact.
• The intensity of the experience increases the likelihood that participants will transfer the lessons learned on-site back to their own communities even after the alternative break ends.  0atha

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CURRENT 2009-2010 SITES

Alternative Winter Break applications are available! Click for more details!
Due date: November 18th by 5pm

Alternative Spring Break descriptions
Applications out in January 2010

ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPDATES

• Applications are OUT for AWB and are due November 18th, 2009 by 5pm!
• If you are interested in Alternative Spring Break here are the descriptions for the projected sites. Click here.
• If you are a past participant of Alternative Break please check out our NEW program "Alternative Break Revisited" (See below).

  Alternative Break Revisited  

• Alternative Break Revisited is an extension of the Alternative Break program specfically for past participants of Alternative Break.  This program will focus on transferring the lessons learned during past Alternative Breaks into monthly service projects and an Alternative Spring Break trip.
• More information

Alternative Winter Break, 2008. San Francisco Food Bank.