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Emory Environmental Alliance
Emory Environmental Alliance (EEA) is a student led undergraduate environmental organization that works closely with Emory and the Office of Sustainability Initiatives to effect institutional change. Club members initiate projects, organize events and legislative education days, educate fellow students, and attend student conferences all over the country. Projects aim to encompass both social and environmental issues, as social and environmental sustainability are closely linked. For more information, please visit our website or LearnLink "Emory Environmental Alliance."
Emory Outdoor Organization (EOO)
With a membership of well over 400 students, OEO is Emory University's largest student-run organization and one of the largest and most active outdoors organizations in the country. In addition to weekend trips around the Southeast, OEO has explored North America, from the Grand Canyon to Baja Mexico, from the Boundary Waters to Lake Tahoe. OEO sends out between two and four trips a weekend, ranging from backpacking to caving to skydiving to surfing to skiing to paddling. Over longer breaks, OEO sends trips across the country to places like the Grand Canyon, Lake Tahoe, Utah, Baja, and Wyoming. OEO has meetings every Thursday night at 8:00 p.m. in Harland Cinema (at the Dobbs University Center). For more information, send an email to askOEO@learnlink.emory.edu or visit http://www.students.emory.edu/OEO/
Green Bean Coffee
The Green Bean is committed to nurturing the community and environment while maintaining a practical and profitable business. Student employees are involved in the evolution of business practices and provide a fuel of creativity. The Green Bean is a not-for-profit organization, with any profits of the business directed to fund student and university projects and initiatives. The Green Bean aims to be a long-lasting and community- friendly campus resource, both for great tasting coffee and tea and sustainability education. The Green Bean Coffee Cart is located on the lower level of the Dobbs University Center and is open from 8 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday, with extended hours until 2 p.m. on Wonderful Wednesday. For more information, please email greenbeancoffee@learnlink.emory.edu.
F.O.O.T.S.T.E.P.S.
Footsteps is a social change catalyst working in collaboration with entertainment, business, NGO/NPO, academic, and student leaders to create an active network that educates and engages individuals in international and domestic issues of sustainable development. Through creative projects, dialogue, and action, the group's mission is to encourage this generation to think and act globally. For more information, please LearnLink "F.O.O.T.S.T.E.P.S."
MetroVision
MetroVision is a community outreach organization that tutors juveniles at the MetroVision juvenile detention center in Atlanta at least once a week. The group's goal is to motivate juvenile offenders to become successful once they are released back into the community by allowing them to express their creativity and by making them aware of societal issues that they have the opportunity to impact. For more information, please LearnLink "Metrovision."
Emory Undergraduate Global Health Organization
EUGHO (Emory Undergraduate Global Health Organization) serves to provide information and opportunities for student action concerning international health issues. EUGHO tries to enlighten students on graduate opportunities in the field of global health that reach beyond the obvious public health school options. EUGHO participates in volunteer opportunities both on and off campus with EGHO, Emory's graduate school global health organization. These activities include Quilt on the Quad, World AIDS day, Medshare International, health walks, and educational trips to the CDC and the Carter Center. For more information, please contact EUglobalheath@gmail.com or visit us at www.students.emory.edu/eugho
Emory Global Health Organization
The Emory Global Health Organization is a student organization based at the Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH) at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. The group seeks to engage in issues of global health outside the classroom by organizing community service events, advocacy campaigns and networking opportunities. Membership is open to the entire Emory University student body, as well as faculty, staff and alumni. For more information, please email eghomail@gmail.com.
Nourish International
Nourish International is a student run organization that has its origins at UNC and has grown to have chapters located at many universities, including an Emory chapter founded in 2008. NI believes that many communities constrained by the cycle of poverty are highly entrepreneurial, dedicated, and determined, but lack the resources and opportunities to substantially improve their conditions. NI harnesses the power of socially driven students to deliver funding, resources, and talent that helps to eradicate poverty and empower communities. During the year, NI partners with a grassroots organization to design and fundraise for a project that will be implemented by the students during the following summer. NI supports long term, sustainable projects and engage the community in all aspects of projects. For more information please visit www.nourishinternational.org or contact the Emory chapter via email at EmoryNourishInternational@gmail.com or visit us on Learnlink at "Nourish International."
Goizueta Energy Group
The Goizueta Energy Group (GEG) is dedicated to educating and involving members of the business school community with the traditional and non-traditional energy markets. GEG is not only interested in oil and coal, but rather the entire vast and growing list of energy sources in this world including sources of alternative energy. Through club meetings and guest speakers from the energy industry, The goal is to increase awareness on the constant evolution of this dynamic sector and how it relates to economic, geopolitical, and other kinds of developments throughout the globe. For more information please email TK.
Good Samaritan Clinic Outreach
The Good Samaritan Health Center is a medical clinic in downtown Atlanta that provides comprehensive healthcare for Atlanta's working poor and homeless. On one Saturday each month, medical and physician assistant students and faculty members from Emory host a free clinic at the Good Samaritan Health Center. For more information, please email the clinic at info@goodsamatlanta.org
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