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The Center for Excellence in Learning through Service (CELTS) at Berea College educates students for leadership in service and social justice through promotion and coordination of academic service-learning and student-led community service. CELTS coordinates the following student-led programs:

Adopt-a-Grandparent:

Berea Buddies:

Berea Teen Mentoring:

Berea Tutoring:

Habitat for Humanity:

Hispanic Outreach Project (HOP):

People Who Care:

Service-Learning Program:

CELTS also coordinates several community wide events focusing on hunger each year:

• Better Together 5k (formally the Hunger Hurts Food Drive)
• Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week
• Empty Bowls

07/14/2026

All of us at the Center are so proud of recent CELTS grad, Bonner Scholar, and now Taylor Fellow Rhea Clayton (left) as she heads off on her journey across the globe! 🌍 ✈️

As a Taylor Fellow, she applied for, and won, a fully funded fellowship to spend the next twelve months visiting four different countries across three different continents.

Rhea will spend time with communities of women who are using art to empower themselves and live in resistance to gender-based violence. She truly represents the amazing good that Berea College students and alums are doing everyday. 💕

Thank you for stopping by campus before you take off, Rhea!

07/08/2026

It's BAAAAAACK!🥇🥈🥉Our Better Together 5k and Dash - run, walk, or roll for the Berea Food Bank is now open for registration. Save the date: November 7th! Click the event for more information.

05/26/2026

🌱Spring-in-Review:
People Who Care (PWC) partnered with Red Bird Mission to provide thirty families with "summer blessing boxes" at the end of the term. Student leaders and volunteers worked tirelessly on these boxes for over a month: collecting cardboard, applying for funds through the The Bonner Foundation, ordering supplies such as nonperishable snacks and fun toys for kids, packing each box carefully along with a handmade card, and painting the finished boxes to add some joy to a family's life.

CELTS student-led programs, such as PWC, work directly with established community partners, in order to best serve the people of those communities. What an honor to serve! What a joy to watch our students grow where they are planted!

05/21/2026

Congrats to our CELTS graduates highlighted in this BC video: Jared, Nagma, Rhea, and Prae! 🥳

05/04/2026

As Spring 2026 comes to a close, we want to celebrate with a Spring-In-Review! We'll be taking a look back at the many events, trips, and celebrations that took place this semester with CELTS.

Twenty-one students from VEPAC, the CCE minor, and the Foundations of Community and Civic Engagement course attended the KyPolicy (Kentucky Center for Economic Policy) Conference at the beautiful Campbell House in Lexington. We’re incredibly proud of their engagement, curiosity, and commitment to making a difference.

04/19/2026

A Week At A Glance for this week! Get ready for PWC's event!

04/18/2026

Meet Enock ’27

A Bonner Scholar who was invited by the World Affairs Council of Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky to share his book and Summer of Service experience. He spoke ahead of a series featuring leaders like Jon Moeller (Executive Chairman of Procter & Gamble) and John Pepper (former CEO of Procter & Gamble). These moments were made even more meaningful through his connection with Melissa McDonald, a Berea College and Bonner Scholar alumna.

For his Summer of Service, Enock worked with MAKETANK Inc. He mentored immigrant and refugee youth in the Illustrated Memoir Project, helping them tell their stories through art and writing while building community, identity, and confidence.

Through SOS, Enock has:
• Spoken at a campus art gallery about his journey
• Continued mentoring youth in creative spaces
• Built strong connections with community leaders
• Been featured on Cincinnati Public Radio podcasts
• Attended conferences in Cincinnati and Washington, D.C.

We are so proud of Enock and all of our Bonner Scholars who lead with purpose, uplift others, and create meaningful change every day.

04/15/2026

Join us tomorrow for our 2026 Annual Service Convocation at Berea College!

📍: Phelps Stokes
📆: Thurs. April 16, 2026
🕒: 3:00 PM

Former Bonner Scholar Ethan Hamblin will lead the discussion with this year's Service Award Winner, Gerry Roll.

We honor Gerry Roll for her work in Eastern Kentucky and are excited to welcome Ethan Hamblin back to Berea College with Bonner Love. 🫶

04/09/2026

a gift, a future, an opportunity.

The donations that Berea College receives allow students from all walks of life to pursue a education surrounded with community service.

"Berea has given me the opportunity of a lifetime to reach higher education for free! I was given a future and a set of tools to carve my own path...Your Gift Is My Future!" Jose A Delgado Duran 28'

04/08/2026

Adopt A Grandparent would like to extend our sincere thanks to the volunteers who participated in our Across Generations: Coffee & Conversations event that being both students and volunteers at Berea Home Village. We also want to say thank you to the Berea Home Village community for joining us in the Arts and Crafts room and helping make the event such a meaningful experience.

The event was a wonderful opportunity for connection and reflection. Participants enjoyed snacks while engaging in a thoughtful letter-writing activity. Our volunteers wrote letters to their younger selves, while members of the Berea Home Village community wrote letters to their past selves. These letters were then exchanged, sparking meaningful conversations and shared reflections across generations.

Address

CPO 2170, 101 Chestnut Street
Berea, KY
40403

Website

http://www.berea.edu/celts, https://runsignup.com/Race/KY/Berea/BetterTogether5KBerea

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