DePauw Community Service (DCS) strives to make a positive and lasting impact in the community by offering opportunities for committed and passionate direct service.

Each semester, nearly 300 of DePauw’s 2,300 students register for at least one of the twenty-seven student-led volunteer  programs that make up DePauw Community Service (DCS).  DePauw students provide needed assistance throughout  Putnam County while they confront social issues through direct service.  Student volunteers serve in schools, shelters, nursing homes, and a variety of other community agencies. 

Through direct service placements, DCS strives to promote student involvement that transcends the edges of DePauw’s campus and inspires responsible citizenship.  As the students interact with the Greencastle community through these agencies, they gain an understanding of community dynamics and needs as well as the need for reciprocity within their service endeavors.  Ultimately the students and the city of Greencastle both become the servants and the served as they learn from each other.