Tools for all student organizations
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(Monthly) SCOOPS: Students Collaborating and Organizing Opportunities and Projects for Sustainability
A collection of student leaders from diverse student organizations that meet each month to share and discuss endeavors to foster collaborative opportunities between multiple organizations. Student clubs and campus organizations send representatives who share opportunities, events, ideas, and foster collaboration.
SCOOPS unites students' efforts to develop more collaborative events and provide a platform for the participating groups to plan and promote their events to a unified and collective audience.
In short, SCOOPS participants will:
- Discover new ideas for improving their club or organization through the experiences, resources, and ideas of others.
- Collaborate, share their resources, and develop plans for action with others, developing their leadership skills.
- Develop professional and personal connections and friendships with like-minded peers.
- Build a culture of sustainability at Santa Clara University through their respective networks, based on their focus areas and expertise.
For more information on how to get involved with SCOOPS, please contact Michelle at SustainabilityIntern@scu.edu.
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Planning an event? Let the Office of Sustainability help you make it more sustainable!
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Read a PDF with 10 ways student organizations, clubs, and teams can operate more sustainably right now, regardless of their theme or purpose. Suggestions include reducing waste associated with meetings and meals, ordering club t-shirts through socially-responsible vendors, and choosing more sustainable transportation options when organizing an event off-campus.
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Read more about sustainability initiatives among student organizations, featured in our monthly Sustainability Updates.
Learning about sustainability outside the classroom
Engaging in sustainability issues through co-curricular activities allows students to deepen and apply their understandings of sustainability principles. Student organizations help integrate sustainability into the campus culture and ensure we continue to have fun!
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To promote awareness about worldwide human rights and justice issues, and to empower students to make a difference through letter-writing campaigns, bringing speakers to campus and holding free documentary screenings.
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Promotes environmental justice in the local and global communities, promoting equal access to a safe and healthy environment for all.
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Engineers Without Borders is an organization established to partner with developing communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life.
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 Gardening Club
A new club based out of SCU's own garden, the Forge, where students can work, learn about sustainable agriculture, and perform community outreach.
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The purpose of the SCU Global Medical Brigades is to pool medical resources and professionals together and organize a brigade to Honduras with the purpose of helping patients in need and delivering medical supplies.
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Grass Roots Environmental Efforts Now (GREEN) Club
The GREEN Club is SCU's student sustainability club. We seek to empower our generation with the spirit and knowledge to confront the challenges we will face in the coming decades, as America and the rest of the world work to transition to a sustainable future. Through public events, education, field trips, campus advocacy, community building, and the power of contagious enthusiasm, we hope to spread the good green word.
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Into the Wild (Camping Club)
Explores the natural beauty present in and around the Bay Area in hiking, camping, and backpacking settings.
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Live OneWorld Social Justice magazine
OneWorld is Santa Clara's only student-run social justice magazine. OneWorld takes submissions from any Santa Clara students who are interested in showcasing their writing, photography, or artwork that deals with social justice issues. OneWorld encourages students to become part of the team and help with editing, copy editing, and designing layout for the magazine which is distributed annually in the spring. Though Santa Clara's OneWorld does not have its own website yet, questions and interest regarding the magazine can be directed toward Matt Smith in Campus Ministry.
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For the purpose of supporting the University's goals of educating men and women to be leaders of competence, conscience and compassion, Santa Clara Community Action Program will offer opportunities of service, community based learning, advocacy, activism, and leadership to the university community. As a chartered student organization, Santa Clara Community Action Program promotes the holistic education of the volunteer by serving the surrounding community and by reflecting upon social justice issues, with the intent of challenging the participants to commit to creating a more humane and just world.
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Santa Clara Entrepreneurs' Organization
Fosters, promotes, and strengthens entrepreneurial talent both locally and globally
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SCUBA Club
Recreational diving for SCU students, fosters a connection to nature.
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Rotaract is a worldwide service organization that works to benefit local and global community. Rotaract also promotes leadership and professional development through seminars, conventions, and mutli-district events.
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Social Innovators looks to encourage students to work together in solving issues facing the reality of third world nations. Just as entrepreneurs change the face of business, social entrepreneurs act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss and improving systems, inventing new approaches, and creating solutions to change society for the better.
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Students in the CyPhi Residential Learning Community conduct year-long research projects related to sustainability and residence life.
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Sustainable Business Studies Club
A new club to connect students with sustainable companies and organizations.
Graduate Networks
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The goal of the Environmental Law Society is to provide law students interested in environmental law with the opportunity to network and gain information about career paths in the field. While we work toward improving the environment, the Society seeks to promote awareness of environmental issues that law students are interested in tackling.
This year the Environmental Law Society hopes to become a major presence on campus and in the community. We have planned thought-provoking and action-oriented meetings, during which we encourage students to share their ideas. We hope to engage faculty and students by holding forums in which we discuss current environmental law issues and ways in which we can act upon these issues.
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Net Impact at Santa Clara's Leavey Graduate School of Business provides a platform and resources to people interested in the causes of social benefit entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility in order to make positive changes in our curriculum and our community.
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The Student Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF) seeks to raise the profile of the field of animal law and educate students and the community on the cruelty that animals face everyday, from the evils of factory farming to criminal animal abuse that goes unprosecuted. Our main purpose is to create a system where animals are free from suffering. This entails humane slaughter, humane treatment and conditions while alive, and being free from physical abuse. We are affiliated with the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) and as such we have made a promise to uphold their mission: To Protect the lives and advance the interest of animals through the legal system.
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