Student Organizations Directory
The student organizations listed here are involved in service through local, national, and international community service activities, fundraising, and activism. Students self-select the public service category through the student organization registration process, and staff assign this category to administrative organizations.
Gaining Understanding Through Support
The purpose of GUTS is to aid incoming first-year women in their adjustment to the University. Through a network of upperclass-first-year pairs, G.U.T.S. hopes to ease the potential difficulties girls may encounter when integrating into this entirely new environment by providing the insight of girls who have lived through their first year at U.Va. It is the hope of the group that this will... More.
Gamma Sigma Tau
Founded in 2009, Delphic of Gamma Sigma Tau Fraternity Inc. is the first and only multicultural fraternity at University of Virginia. We thrive topromote brotherhood, academics, community service, and most importantly, multiculturalism.
Get $mart: Financial Education
The purpose of the aforementioned organization is to empower residents to achieve economic self-sufficiency and create a more financially viable future for their families. By taking an education-based approach, we will develop and implement a financial education class, held at the Hope Community Center for the nearby low-income residents. The classes will be held in conjunction with financial... More.
Girls Excited About Math and Science
GEMS is a service organization whose main goal is to close the gender gap in math and science subjects. We encourage these subjects to middle school girls in the Charlottesville Area by conducting math and science experiments with them.
Global Architecture Brigades
GAB at UVA is affiliated with Global Architecture Brigades, which is part of Global Brigades, Inc. GAB is a network of volunteers that applies architectural design and construction skills to bring about socially responsible change to developing communities around the world. Our students collaborate with local planners, architects and community leaders to create and implement innovative... More.
Global Brigades
Global Brigades is the world's largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. Comprised of secular, international service programs, we mobilize student volunteers and professionals to empower communities in developing countries with programs that improve quality of life while respecting local culture.
Global Business Brigades
UVA Global Business Brigades is a chapter of Global Brigades which is the world's largest student-led sustainable development organization. We plantrips to Torti Abajo, Panama where we provide business as well as personal finance consulting to families within the community. During the school year, we hold regular meetings to educate our members on the Panamanian community, business and... More.
Global Development Organization
The Global Development Organization exists at UVA to foster a community of students interested in and able to reduce global poverty and inequality and to make globalization work for the poor. How do we do this? Through an event series (of speakers, discussions and debates, career panels, presentations, etc.), research support, the major in global development studies, and public service events... More.
Global Environmental Brigades
Environmental Brigades at University of Virginia is a chapter of Global Brigades, the world's largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. The UVA chapter systematically works with more than 300 other university groups around the world to deliver and implement one of nine skill-based programs that benefit more than 130,000 Honduran and Panamanian community... More.
Global Medical Dental Brigades
Our mission is to provide a holistic model for sustainable health care in underserved villages with limited access to medicine by conducting a preliminary needs assessment, treating patients to the highest ethical standards, sponsoring referrals to those with needs beyond our capability, recording data for the production of quantitative reports, and working to improve the water, sanitation,... More.
Global Medical Training
Global Medical Training is an international humanitarian organization, providing free medical services to underprivileged communities in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Global Medical Training club at The University of Virginia will co-ordinate trips, fundraise, teach about tropical diseases and prepare students and members of the UVA communityfor the travel and work at GMT sites.... More.
Global Microfinance Brigades
Our MFB club at UVA is affiliated with Global Microfinance Brigades, which is part of Global Brigades, Inc. Global Microfinance Brigades is a socially conscious network of volunteers that participate in real micro lending transactions and engage in the lives of daily borrowers around the world. The organization empowers college students with the materials, know-how, and support to perform... More.
Global Public Health Brigades
Our mission is to provide volunteers with the opportunity to make a tangible impact on communities while gaining real life experience in the field of public health and international development. Volunteers receive an introduction to Honduras' public health challenges and its political, economic, and geographical context. On trips, students will spend a week working alongside community members... More.
Global Student Council
The Global Student Council (GSC) at UVA aims to forge relationships and create a common platform for all the current international students, in order to identify and resolve the main issues that impact the international community and strengthen their relationship with the University, as well as to facilitate current international student relationships and support the University in building a... More.
Global Water Brigades
Global Water Brigades, a discipline of Global Brigades, is a movement of passionate students and professional volunteers from around the world dedicated to improving access to clean water and sanitation. Our students collaborate with water experts and community leaders to create and implement new and innovative solutions to water problems. Along with affiliate groups at other distinguished... More.
Globemed at the University of Virginia
One billion people across the world lack access to health care systems. Each day, more than 36,000 people die preventable deaths. Without addressing poverty and poor health, we cannot break this cycle of suffering. University students have the passion and energy to help tackle this challenge. GlobeMed aims to meet this challenge by engaging and training students to work with grassroots... More.
Grandparent Stories
Grandparent Stories unites generations through the arts. UVA students partner with both elementary school students and senior citizens in the Charlottesville community for a year-long project. In the fall semester, the organization sponsors a writing contest in local elementary schools where students submit stories about their grandparents. In the spring, these stories are turned into scripts... More.
Greek Recycling Program
The Greek Recycling Program's mission is to divert waste from local landfills through the reduction, reuse and recycling of reclaimable material from all fraternities and sororities at UVA under the jurisdiction of IFC/ISC. The program, by virtue of this mission, seeks not to serve as an extension of the Greek Governing Councils-- which would presuppose membership limited to Greek affiliation... More.
Green Grounds Group
The Green Grounds Group is dedicated to educating and advocating for sustainable planning, design, implementation and operations on the grounds of the University of Virginia. Formed in 2004 by planning and architecture students to address green design at the University, the group sponsors projects that encompass a range of sustainable design ideas - from green roofs to energy use to... More.
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