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Change Makers Club

Change Makers Club students at Kings Gap Education Center

Change Makers at Kings Gap Environmental Education Center acting as Garden Harvest Day volunteers.

Spring 2026 Change Makers Club schedule will be finalized by early January 2026. You will be able to find our schedule here, or scroll to register your interest to be on our email list!

ABOUT

CHANGE MAKERS CLUB is a branch of CCLA that invites students to learn about a multitude of social change strategies while directly engaging with the Carlisle Community.

Each semester, Change Makers collaborates with community partners to highlight the variety of ways making social change is possible within one social issue. By focusing on one social issue a semester, students will have the opportunity to see how each social change strategy works toward a larger goal. Each Change Maker will have the chance to go deeper in their understanding of how social change happens, witnessing the intersection of different social issues and social change strategies.

Change Makers Club currently houses the Center for Civic Learning & Action’s Day of Service program. Days of Service have historically been CCLA’s way of connecting students with service opportunities throughout the Carlisle community. Change Makers Club will still host multiple Days of Service a semester. Through expanding on Days of Service, CCLA has the opportunity to provide students with a richer civic engagement experience.

OUR WHY

FOR OUR STUDENTS:

  • We want to create an opportunity for students who wish to engage with the Carlisle community, but feel they cannot commit to one of our long-term programs.
  • We want to help students combat the overwhelm of starting their journey as a social change advocate by providing them with hands-on examples of social change strategies.

FOR OUR PARTNERS:

  • By creating a semester of programs that delve into one social issue, we hope to highlight the work of our community partners in more detail and through more avenues.
  • We want to increase the number of students who are able to engage in direct and indirect service in our community.
  • We wish to facilitate a deeper understanding of ongoing work and current need, fostering a deeper connection between the campus and community.

SOCIAL CHANGE STRATEGIES

Change Makers Club uses the Social Change Wheel 2.0 to highlight different strategies of social change. Created by Campus Compact, the Social Change Wheel 2.0 is a graphic and tool used to further an individual's understanding of community engagement. It allows people to identify what strategies they have used personally and see how many ways there are to work toward a common purpose.

Two helping hands surrounded by a wheel of social change strategies.The goal of the graphic is to seek alignment between campus and community strategies, centering the values of anti-racism, equity, and co-creation. The inner ring is specific to campus strategies, but Change Makers focuses on the outer ring, which showcases a variety of social change strategies used both on- and off-campus.

POTENTIAL UPCOMING EVENTS

To align with our mission, CCLA collaborates on ideas that meet current service needs of our community partners, and in turn highlight a variety of avenues toward social change.

  • Book Club/Movie Nights 
  • Arts & Advocacy Nights - Craft with a purpose!
  • Annual Giving Events
  • Local Policy Education & Letter Writing Campaign
  • Student Led Carlisle Walking Tours
  • Days of Service with our Community Partners

HOW TO GET ENGAGED

Register your interest via this form.

To stay up to date with our latest events, subscribe to our weekly newsletter or follow Change Makers on Instagram.

If you would like to partner with Change Makers Club in a future semester, please contact Lucy Pratt at prattlu@dickinson.edu. 

For one-time service opportunities, check out our online community bulletin board on Padlet.

If you are a student who would like to host their own Day of Service, please reach out to us via email at engage@dickinson.edu.

Examples of Past Days of Service:

  • Garden Harvest Day Festival Volunteers with Kings Gap Environmental Education Center
  • Farm Maintenance with the Red Tomato Farm 
  • General Maintenance Projects with Cumberland County Housing & Redevelopment Authorities 
  • Clean Up & Painting with St. Paul Lutheran Church's Emergency Shelter 
  • Trail Maintenance with Central Pennsylvania Conservancy