Educational Excellence Since 1912
Hamden Hall Country Day School
Educating students in PreSchool through Grade 12
Hamden Hall Country Day School
Educating students in PreSchool through Grade 12
Campus Life
Community Service
Hamden Hall is committed to creating a culture of social responsibility, stewardship, and global awareness among its students at all grade levels. Furthermore, in preparing students for the challenges of life, we believe that each one has a responsibility to give of themselves for the benefit of others. As such, Community Service is a valuable part of The Hamden Hall Experience.
Throughout the year, we provide many opportunities for the students to reach out to the local community. The students may perform community service projects with their classes as a whole or with just a few friends in their own free time. They are also strongly encouraged to follow their own individual cause.
School-sponsored activities include our annual Stuff A Bus, which helps feed 500 families in need through Hamden's Keefe Community Center, and Earth Day, during which all divisions participate in various undertakings and programming. In addition, the Lower School participates in monthly community service projects.
"It's part of our mission at Hamden Hall to teach students social responsibility. Each of our service projects throughout the year helps our students do this in a developmentally appropriate way," said Lower School Director Lorri Carroll.
In the Middle School, community service is built into the curriculum. Students prepare and serve meals in what is knows as our Life Is Delicious community service project for a local homeless shelter. Since the program’s inception during the 2011-2012 academic year, 3070 meals have been served. They also help maintain urban gardens in Greater New Haven.
Many of the Upper School's community service projects are sponsored and coordinated by Hamden Hall's chapter of Interact, a Rotary-sponsored youth service program that is recognized throughout the world. Other efforts are coordinated by Peer Leaders, the American Red Cross Club, and many others.
Throughout the year, we provide many opportunities for the students to reach out to the local community. The students may perform community service projects with their classes as a whole or with just a few friends in their own free time. They are also strongly encouraged to follow their own individual cause.
School-sponsored activities include our annual Stuff A Bus, which helps feed 500 families in need through Hamden's Keefe Community Center, and Earth Day, during which all divisions participate in various undertakings and programming. In addition, the Lower School participates in monthly community service projects.
"It's part of our mission at Hamden Hall to teach students social responsibility. Each of our service projects throughout the year helps our students do this in a developmentally appropriate way," said Lower School Director Lorri Carroll.
In the Middle School, community service is built into the curriculum. Students prepare and serve meals in what is knows as our Life Is Delicious community service project for a local homeless shelter. Since the program’s inception during the 2011-2012 academic year, 3070 meals have been served. They also help maintain urban gardens in Greater New Haven.
Many of the Upper School's community service projects are sponsored and coordinated by Hamden Hall's chapter of Interact, a Rotary-sponsored youth service program that is recognized throughout the world. Other efforts are coordinated by Peer Leaders, the American Red Cross Club, and many others.
Community Service Happenings
List of 20 news stories.
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Community Service Reflection from Senior Matthew Maniatty
Senior Matthew Maniatty had the opportunity to spend a week in Rwanda this past summer. Read his reflections below.Read More -
Preserving Reserves with Middle School
Middle School students partook in an off-site outdoor and nature conservation trip as they spent the day working to maintain Connecticut’s nature landscapes by lending helping hands and supporting two organizations, Greater New Haven and The Quinnipiac River Watershed Association (QRWA). The initiative was part of the Middle School’s annual Earth Day observation and was planned and organized by the efforts of teachers Paulomi Aldo and Aidan Clark-Long.Read More -
Students Get Crafty to Celebrate Earth Day
The Art Cottage has been bustling with Lower School students all week as each class spent time crafting art projects that honor Earth Day and raise awareness on environmental issues.Read More -
Student-Led Stewardship Builds Community Connections
The power of giving back to those in need is deeply rooted in the Hamden Hall experience and Middle School students commenced the first installment of their annual community service project, Life is Delicious. The program provides patrons at the Columbus House Overflow Shelter in New Haven with a hot meal and community connections. This year marks the first year the students hand- served the meal since 2020.Read More -
Helping Hands Lend to Community Service Project
Giving back to those in need is a valuable part of the Hamden Hall experience, and students in all grade levels have a long-standing tradition of being involved with local organizations and working with neighboring communities.Read More -
Interact Club Hosts Book Drive in Partnership with ‘More Than Likes’
The Interact Club is hosting a book drive in partnership with More Than Likes, a non-profit organization in North Haven.Read More -
Hamden Hall Community Works Together for Ukraine Donation Drive
Over the last few weeks, the Hamden Hall community organized and collected items for a donation drive benefiting Ukrainian families. All school divisions participated in the effort with students, faculty, and staff overfilling donation boxes with medical supplies, toiletry items, and children’s items such as coloring books, toys, and crayons.Read More -
Community Service Project Offers Healing Meals
Read MoreHamden Hall’s longstanding commitment to helping those in need continues as Middle School students commenced their annual community service project – Life is Delicious. This program serves clients at the Columbus House Overflow Shelter in New Haven and provides them with a hot meal. -
Annual Stuff-A-Bus Donations Helps Local Community Food Bank
Read MoreThe Hamden Hall community graciously over-stuffed the bus this year during our annual Stuff-A-Bus tradition that occurs prior to Thanksgiving. -
Socktober Drive Benefits Local Organizations
In their first community service project of the year, Lower School students and faculty collected 1,588 pairs of socks.Read More -
Lower School Students Bowl over Pantry with Cereal Donations
Lower School students ensured that Hamden's Keefe Community Center had plenty of cereal for its food pantry shelves before parting for the summer. According to Lower School Director Lorri Carroll, the pantry was down to about six boxes!Read More -
Pitching in to Protect our Pollinators
As Upper School students recently trucked back and forth to classes between Hamden Hall’s Whitney Avenue and Davis Street campuses on a patch of land called Eli Whitney Park, some of their peers were busy with one last community service project.Read More -
Student Hugs Heading to Troops Overseas
Hamden Hall Lower School students were part of a global initiative last year that sent more than 20,000 valentines to soldiers overseas. This year, despite the fact that the Hugs for Soldiers program has suspended the project due to COVID-19, our community is one of the few schools across the country asked to participate with student artwork.Read More -
Red Cross Club Hosts Second Blood Drive in Six Months
Hamden Hall's Red Cross Club, which formed during the 2019-2020 school year, conducted its second blood drive within a six-month period on December 6 in Taylor Gymnasium.Read More -
Annual Stuff-A-Bus Initiative Helps Feed Local Families
Our Hamden Hall community stuffed two buses this year during our longstanding Stuff-A-Bus tradition that takes place prior to Thanksgiving.Read More -
Heart-Healthy Service Above Self
Students in Grades 1-5 raised $3,000 for the American Heart Association during the Kids Heart Challenge.Read More -
A Homemade Meal Makes 'Life Delicious'
Students weren’t afraid to “dig in” to the ingredients while prepping an evening meal for more than 80 residents at the Columbus House Overflow Shelter in New Haven.Read More -
Newly Formed Red Cross Club Has Important Mission
While there have been blood drives on campus over the years, the school’s inaugural American Red Cross Club has been formed with about 30 students on the roster to participate.Read More -
Musical Ambassadors: The Music Community Service Club
Members of the Music Community Service Club along with their advisor, Lower School music teacher Rachael Jungkeit, entertained residents recently at Atria Larsen Place Senior Living Center in Hamden.Read More -
Knitted Nicety
Members of Hamden Hall's Fiber Arts Club sent 31 handmade scarves to the Red Scarf Project, which distributes them to college students who had been in foster care.Read More
Hamden Hall Country Day School
1108 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, Connecticut 06517
Phone: 203-752-2600
Fax: 203-752-2651
admissions@hamdenhall.org
Hamden, Connecticut 06517
Phone: 203-752-2600
Fax: 203-752-2651
admissions@hamdenhall.org
About Us
Hamden Hall Country Day School, located less than two miles from Yale University, is one of the best private schools in Connecticut to enroll elementary, middle, and high school students. Our nurturing and inclusive community provides a dynamic learning environment that promotes academic excellence by understanding each child and fostering their individual growth.
