About ISSERV

ISSERV (International Students and Scholars Engaged in Reaching Out and Volunteering) is a program designed to encourage NC State’s international students, scholars, and family members to make a difference in the local community and build meaningful relationships through service-learning.

Questions about ISSERV? Contact Maggie Harney (mkharney@ncsu.edu).

Upcoming ISSERV Events (2025-2026)

Past ISSERV Events

The Green Chair Project

The Green Chair Project’s mission is working together to provide everyone the comforts of home. They reuse donated household furnishings to renew lives of participants referred from area programs who are recovering after homelessness, crisis or disaster. We worked with their team on an outdoor beautification project to prepare the site for a public welcoming event.

MLK Day Backpack Buddies

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a national holiday marking the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. It is most often celebrated as a day of service. In conjunction with the Southeast Raleigh YMCA, Brown Bag Ministries Mission, and the Food Shuttle Backpack Buddies program, we worked to pack backpacks with healthy snacks and meals to send home to kids in the community who need access to food.

The Diaper Bank of NC

The Diaper Bank of North Carolina’s mission is to promote and protect the dignity of each resident by ensuring that families with babies and children living with poverty have an adequate supply of diapers. We assisted in repackaging wipes and diapers to distribute out into the community.

Yam Jam

The Society of St. Andrew hosts an annual sweet potato gleaning event called Yam Jam each fall in rural North Carolina. In October 2022, ISSERV participants volunteered on a farm in Benson and then brought back around 75 lbs of sweet potatoes to donate to NC State’s food pantry, Feed the Pack.