Community Engagement
Northwestern University and local Evanston and Chicago community organizations offer many ways to get involved in the surrounding communities. Chart your course using some of these campus and community resources.
Welcome to Leadership Development & Community Engagement! We pursue a world where everyone can thrive through students’ leadership development and engagement in the community. We develop sustained partnerships on campus and in the community that advance student learning, transformation, and commitment to active citizenship.
Books & Breakfast
The longstanding Books & Breakfast program offers a nutritious breakfast and homework help to K-5 students at 7 Evanston elementary schools. This program currently serves over 250 kids each week supported by dozens of Northwestern students and community volunteers.
Dwight White's Mural
Dwight White's latest mural for Northwestern was recently completed in the Norris University Center and invites viewers to engage with the Evanston and Chicago communities. The artist, Dwight White, shares his process in this video.
Land Acknowledgement
Northwestern is a community of learners situated within a network of historical and contemporary relationships with Native American tribes, communities, parents, students, and alumni. It is also in close proximity to an urban Native American community in Chicago and near several tribes in the Midwest.
The Northwestern campus sits on the traditional homelands of the people of the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa. It was also a site of trade, travel, gathering and healing for more than a dozen other Native tribes and is still home to over 100,000 tribal members in the state of Illinois.