Community Outreach

Keystone College provides students, faculty, and staff with coordinated opportunities to engage in service to the community, both locally and globally. Since the creation of the Office of Community Outreach in 1998, this center has documented more than 80,000 hours of service.

Members of the Keystone College community participate in a variety of service activities and events including:

• American Red Cross Blood Drives for both Lackawanna and Wyoming Counties
• Lupus 5K Walk
• Relay for Life
• Ronald McDonald House
• Big Brothers/Big Sisters
• United Way Day of Caring

AmeriCorps Scholars in Service to Pennsylvania (SISPA) 

The Office of Community Outreach was very excited to learn that Keystone College is re-funded for a third-year AmeriCorps Scholars in Service to Pennsylvania (SISPA) host site.

Scholars in Service to Pennsylvania is an AmeriCorps Education Award Only program (Ed Award). This means that participating students enroll as AmeriCorps members on a part-time basis and receive a partial Education Award at the end of their term. Students may choose to do a "quarter-time" or "minimum-time" commitment. A student who completes 450 hours of service over one calendar year can earn an education award of $1,415; a student who completes 300 hours of service over one year can earn a $1,132 education award. For more information regarding this program please contact Maria Fanning, maria.fanning@keystone.edu

ON-GOING EVENTS

• Adopt-A-Highway
• Mathewson Senior Center
• Factoryville Shade Tree Commission
• Griffin Pond Animal Center
• Seven Loaves Soup Kitchen