Westmont's Alumni-Student
Day of Service
February 7, 2026
This event aimed to strengthen alumni-student connections. Serving side-by-side creates authentic, memorable connections that are hard to replicate. This event also displayed how the Westmont community lives out one of the pillars of the mission statement serving as grateful servants and reinforcing a culture of lifelong service. We hope to build on this tradition and replicate this event in the future. This event brought together over 55 alumni, students, and staff volunteers who served alongside one another.
As an added bonus the Westmont Women's Volleyball team joined this project to serve together alongside alumni and staff.
Community Partners
The Turner Foundation
The Turner Foundation's work focuses on five key groups (Youth, Family, Individuals With Special Needs, Seniors, and Low Income) creating programs that help with their specific challenges while believing in what they can achieve. Through this work, they strengthen our community- building a place where everyone has the opportunity to receive support and give back in meaningful ways.
The Turner Foundation asked us to help Sand and restain a fence, paint an interior wall in the community center, pull weeds, trash pick-up, and work on a valentine’s day gift for the community.
Olive Crests's Hope Refuge
Hope Refuge is a home for girls (ages 12 to 17) who have been rescued out of sex trafficking. They provide support for 16 survivors from all of California who, for six months or more, are part of their full-service, live-in center. Each girl is provided with individualized counseling, therapeutic care, and education in a fun and loving environment. Click HERE for a testimony from one of their past residents. Click HERE for a virtual tour of the campus.
Volunteers helped deep clean the property for our service day.
Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation and
Doctors Without Walls- Santa Barbara Street Medicine
The Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation advocates for families living in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo counties that have a child with cancer by providing financial, educational, and emotional support.
Doctors Without Walls- Santa Barbara street Medicine aims to deliver health care and related services directly to people living and sleeping on the streets in austere environments.
Volunteers worked on a project creating Taylor Swift style bracelets for kids fighting cancer and their families.
Our team worked on a second project, putting together brown bags filled with socks and chocolates and encouraging notes for unhoused women. These bags will be distributed for Valentines Day by Doctors without walls- Santa Barbara Street Medicine.
Bucket Brigade
The Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade's mission is to prepare for and respond to natural disasters and community crises in Santa Barbara County through the training, coordination, and deployment of volunteers. Born out of the 2017 Thomas Fire and 2018 Debris Flow, the organization focuses on building community resilience by training local volunteers, holding year-round community restoration projects, and fostering a "neighbors helping neighbors" approach.
This team planted native flowering shrubs to restore the Ellwood Mesa Butterfly Preserve in Goleta! They removed non-native, highly flammable plants and replaced them with native flowering shrubs. They helped transform the damaged watershed ecosystem into a thriving native plant restoration.
Orange County Alumni Team:
Harvest Solutions Farm
Orange County Alumni will be volunteered at Harvest Solutions Farm. This farm is managed by the County Food Bank and provides 50,000-60,000 pounds of fresh produce every week for those in need in Orange County. Volunteers are key to operations of this farm.
Volunteers at Harvest Solutions Farm (partnership with the University of California South Coast Research & Extension Center and Solutions for Urban Agriculture) planted, harvested, weeded and maintained the fields. This took place at the 40-acre farm just down the road from the Food Bank. The purpose of this organization is to provide equitable access to nutritious food to those in need. This initiative supports community health by distributing grown produce to over 300 partner locations, targeting children, seniors, and working families