Skip to main content

You may be using a Web browser that does not support standards for accessibility and user interaction. Find out why you should upgrade your browser for a better experience of this and other standards-based sites...

Dartmouth Home Search Index

Dartmouth Home | Search | Index

Dartmouth home page
Tucker Foundation
Service TripsHome Service Trips >

Alternative Spring Break

Each year the Tucker Foundation provides the opportunity for students to spend their Spring Break as part of a service-learning trip, known as Alternative Spring Break trips. Trips are student organized and run, and most of the funding for each trip comes from a campus-wide fundraising effort that occurs during the winter term.

For more information, please contact Conor Hackett, Tucker Foundation's AmeriCorps VISTA member.
Phone: (603) 646-3777
e-mail: Conor.D.Hackett@dartmouth.edu

2008-2009 Alternative Spring Break Trips

The Tucker Foundation is currently seeking proposals for NEW SERVICE TRIPS for the 08-09 school year. We're looking to fund TWO new spring break trips inside the continental U.S. and we want your ideas!

Get funded! Do something incredible with it! Tell your friends!

Want to work on immigration issues in border states? Or develop community gardens in big cities?

Please Conor Hackett or John Beardsley for more information, or to set up a meeting if you've got a proposal idea.

Applications

National Alternative Spring Break Trip Proposal Guidelines 2008 .

Lakota Nation at Cheyenne Nation Sioux Tribe

This trip will bring a group of Dartmouth students to the Lakota Nation at the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe near Eagle Butte, SD. The students will have a variety of opportunities to engage and learn from the community while conducting a variety of community service projects including working with the Cheyenne River Youth Project as well as a possible college awareness night with local youth. Reflections and educational sessions for this trip will explore topics such as the stories and traditions of this community, history of the Lakota Nation, Native American sovereign nation status and cross cultural education.

Dominican Republic

This experience will bring Dartmouth students to a Haitian migrant community in the Dominican Republic during spring break 2008. This group will work in Barrio Samán, a migrant village of roughly 100 families near the north coast of the Dominican Republic, and aims to develop that cross-cultural relationship through two service projects in the community: community center construction and Fútbol Para la Vida, an HIV prevention program inspired by Grassroots Soccer. Students will gain service experience in community development and public health, while learning about how Dominicans and Haitians—two very distinct cultures—came to share the island of Hispaniola. Reflections will center on poverty, marginalization, immigration, spirituality/ religion, international health and development.

Last Updated: 4/21/08