Service & Advocacy Clubs

  • Muslim Institute for Leadership and Empowerment (MILE)

    The Muslim Institute for Leadership & Empowerment (MILE) is a leadership, identity, and community development program that seeks to create socially-aware leaders within the University and beyond. With a primary focus on the Muslim community, this yearly program cultivates a space for its student cohort to engage with complex issues and explore meaningful strategies for progress. MILE aspires to empower its students in becoming agents of change for themselves and their communities.

  • Muslims United

    Muslims United aims to create an inclusive space in order to empower Muslim folx to connect spiritually, form community through faith, and resist systems of oppression. Core to this mission is the transformation of ourselves and our community through collective healing, mutual support, and an unwavering dedication to fighting for justice both within our community and externally. To these ends, Muslims United is dedicated to centering marginalized voices and fostering growth through intersectional religious, political, and social education and advocacy, while also working in solidarity with other minority communities. This mission statement is dynamic as is our organization and its membership.

  • NAMI on Grounds at the University of Virginia

    NAMI, National Alliance on Mental Illnesses, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. NAMI on Campus is a sub-branch from NAMI that focuses on student's lives and activities at the university level.By creating a NAMI on Campus charter at UVA, we aim to provide and assist students and established resources at the university through extensive collaboration efforts and publicity.  Our main goal is to reduce the stigmas that prevent individuals from seeking help. We hope to do this by breaking the silences, shame, secrecy, and myths which have been attached to one’s mental health. Additionally, NAMI on Grounds at University of Virginia strives to generate a supportive space where students, faculty members, and members of the community feel safe and secure.Although this organization has members who are University of Virginia students and may have University employees associated or engaged in its activities and affairs, the organization is not a part of or an agency of the University. It is a separate and independent organization which is responsible for and manages its own activities and affairs. The University does not direct, supervise or control the organization and is not responsible for the organization’s contracts, acts or omissions.

  • National Eating Disorder Association Campus Warriors at the University of Virginia

    NEDA Campus Warriors is a national organizational initiative with the goal of engaging university students and organizations to raise awareness and funds for the National Eating Disorder Association. In addition to these goals, the UVA Chapter of NEDA Campus Warriors aims to serve as a safe recovery community on grounds for students struggling with their relationship with food and those who support them. NEDA at UVA plans to achieve these goals through our current initiative of organizing an annual NEDA Fall Walk to bring about greater awareness of eating disorders on campus and raise money for the national organization, as well as through hosting other various awareness, educational, fundraising, and social activities. 

  • National Security, Intelligence, and Defense Club at UVA

    NSID is established for the expressed purpose of:Helping members learn about the different aspects of the Intelligence Community/National Security Branches of the U.S. Government and possible career paths in public serviceProvide an area where people with similar interests (e.g. National Security) can gain an understanding of and debate pressing security issues Hosting different national security themed crisis simulationsHost guest speakers–ranging from professors to government officials–to share their expertise on the problems facing the United States and its interests

  • Net Impact at Darden

    Net Impact at Darden is a student organization whose mission is help all Darden students to define impact as it exists in their own life and plan for how to achieve impact in their future careers.

  • Net Impact at the University of Virginia

    Net Impact focuses on the intersection of sustainability, social impact, and business. We aim to create a positive impact on Grounds by raising awareness of careers in sustainability, educating students by offering events such as dinner series with Professors and panels with business leaders, providing a community for like-minded individuals, and equipping students with the necessary tools to intertwine business with sustainability and social impact.

  • Network of Enlightened Women at the University of Virginia

    The Network of enlightened Women (NeW) is dedicated to fostering the education and leadership skills of conservative university women. Specifically at UVA, NeW is devoted to expanding intellectual diversity through educational opportunities, training women to become leaders, and creating a community of conservative women.

  • NextGen America at UVA

    NextGen America is the nation’s largest youth voting organization that’s using innovative digital and field strategies to turn out young voters in key states. We’re empowering the largest and most diverse generation in American history through voter education, registration and mobilization. At NextGen we share lessons learned with the broader progressive community to build a stronger, more nimble and effective democracy.