Travel and program costs covered. Your academic leadership recognized as a Founding Faculty Fellow. A place in the field alongside your students, with research and publication built in — and you choose the level, from a two-minute referral to a fully customized academic program. This is the program many faculty wished had existed: faculty supported, not stretched.
The program many faculty wished had existed: faculty supported, not stretched.
For years, faculty who wanted to lead these experiences carried much of the burden themselves. We built this model so that the people who make the experience possible are fully supported.
You choose your level of involvement, and we support you at every step — with opportunities to have your program costs covered and receive an honorarium. One immersion with your students may count fully or partially toward your service, research, or teaching commitments; your institution determines how it counts. We handle the logistics, safety protocols, and on-the-ground details, so you can focus on your students, your professional goals, and the experience itself.
These five commitments are the heart of every faculty partnership.
One immersion does the work of several at once — and it creates value for everyone in the room at the same time: students, faculty, institutions, sponsors and the host communities we have partnered with for two decades.
Students participate at a published program cost that covers the full in-country experience — housing, meals, in-country transport, project costs, safety, and support. Full details are on our Pricing & Inclusions page.
Two separate things. Bringing a qualifying cohort covers your Phase One Service-Learning program costs. Substantive academic leadership is what makes you eligible for the honorarium.
When you accompany a qualifying student cohort in a bona fide educational or leadership role.
Covers your Phase One Service-Learning Immersion — program fee, lodging, in-country transportation, scheduled activities and participant meals. Eligible round-trip economy airfare, subject to program terms and travel limits.
Where permitted by your institution. Covered travel alone does not qualify — this recognizes leadership.
Eligibility requires at least four of the criteria above to be documented, including both required criteria. The honorarium recognizes your leadership and service in support of the Phase One Service-Learning Immersion.
One immersion with your students may count fully or partially toward your service, research, or teaching commitments; your institution determines how it counts.
Your institution determines how it counts.
Documented service hours inside a 501(c)(3) whose focus is philanthropic — structured learning objectives, recorded hours, and guided reflection, delivered alongside community partners rather than for them.
A doctoral-led framework measures real behavior change and program outcomes — work that can be studied, presented, and published. Research and publication are built in, not bolted on.
Academic credit opportunities, syllabi and recognized service-learning and experiential education principles, so the experience translates cleanly into academic recognition.
Faculty Fellows are encouraged to identify, refer, or appoint Student Ambassadors and Campus Club Leaders who can take the lead on peer engagement, student outreach, and day-to-day participation efforts.
This student-led model allows faculty to remain focused on academic mentorship, institutional coordination, and the educational dimensions of the immersion while empowering students to build participation within their own campus communities.
Student Campus Club Leaders and Ambassadors who demonstrate meaningful leadership through peer outreach, increasing awareness of program opportunities, encouraging student engagement, and helping build a qualifying cohort may be eligible for similar program-cost support in recognition of their leadership and contribution to campus engagement.
A qualifying cohort may be developed collectively; individual student leaders are not required to independently generate the minimum cohort of 20 participants. Eligibility for program-cost support is based on documented leadership and meaningful contribution to the development of a qualifying cohort.
The academic spine of every immersion comes from doctoral research on sustainable behavior change — and from service-learning courses and internships built across diverse healthcare settings, not adapted from a tour itinerary.
Your students join a structured international immersion in Health, Conservation, or Community Development & Childhood Education — supported by academic credit opportunities, established community partnerships, and fully managed logistics. It is the kind of experience participants often describe years later as one that changed the course of their lives.
Community health, public-health education, and wellness work alongside local partners — a grounded introduction to global health practice and the realities of care in under-resourced settings.
Environmental stewardship and conservation projects led by community priorities — connecting students to ecology, sustainability, and the people who steward these landscapes.
Teaching, youth programs, and community-led development — sustained engagement that contributes to the long-term educational foundation of the communities we serve.
Every immersion is built on structured learning objectives, documented service hours, and guided reflection — designed around recognized service-learning and experiential education principles, so the experience translates cleanly into academic recognition. How academic credit works
There is no single way in. You choose the level that fits your bandwidth this year — and you can always step up later. Each pathway is built around your course, your students, and your academic goals.
Not sure which fits? That is exactly what a first conversation is for.
Your students will be supervised by people who have done this work for a long time: a founder with a doctorate in behavior change who has developed service-learning courses and internships across diverse healthcare settings, and resident country directors who live where your students will serve. Meet the people behind the work →
Our work is grounded in decades of leadership in international service, education, and community partnership. Adolfo Ramirez, who directed programs across the Dominican Republic for nearly twenty years, serves as our Director of Global Programs — the community relationships your students step into are relationships he has maintained in person.
A short conversation to talk through what might fit your students, your courses, and your year. Choose a time below, or send a note — and if this isn't the right year for you, simply saying so is a complete and welcome answer.
Pick a time that works for you. The conversation is exploratory — there is nothing to prepare.
Book your 15-minute conversation →A sentence is plenty — including which level of involvement feels right, or simply that you'd like to learn more.
Prefer to write directly? Reach Jason at jasonspeaks@help2serve.care.
Our leaders’ experience is rooted in decades of international service and educational partnership — and faculty have always been at the heart of it.
Tell us the shape of it and we will come back with dates, costs and what is covered. This is a conversation-starter email, not an application, and commits you to nothing.
Refer participants, sponsor an ambassador, or spark a Campus Club. We will send what you need and follow up.