CACTUS organizations

Art TU Kids is an initiative at Tulane University dedicated to bringing the therapeutic power of art to the young patients at the Children’s Hospital. Through creative workshops and activities, our club aims to support emotional healing and personal expression for children facing health challenges. Art TU Kids provides a joyful and supportive environment where kids can explore their creativity and find comfort in the art-making process.

Tulane’s pre-professional community service fraternity. APO engages in service with the Tulane and the New Orleans communities while promoting values of leadership, friendship, and service.

FIMRC is a nonprofit dedicated to improving healthcare for families in underdeveloped countries throughout the world. Through emphasizing education as a way of taking preventative measures, FIMRC hopes to provide more sustainable healthcare to families in need. This program is supported by a number of volunteers that travel to FIMRC's health clinic locations throughout various countries, including Ecuador, Peru, the Philippines, and Costa Rica. Locally, volunteers organize various donation drives for medical supplies that are given to the health clinics; these supplies are then distributed to the local families in need.

Letters of Love provides emotional support to children battling chronic illnesses in long term care with hand-made cards filled with love and kindness from a supportive community. 

Every Saturday Morning, RGT goes to homeless communities with breakfast foods, coffee, and other essential goods. We distribute the items to homeless people in the New Orleans area and have conversations with them. We build connections with these individuals by returning to the same neighborhoods weekly. We are trying to create a better life and opportunity for the low-income community of New Orleans, which is why we want to start an on-campus club.

Swim 4 Success is a Tulane student-run program that provides free swimming lessons to low-income New Orleans youth. Our student volunteers teach one lesson per week at the Reily Student Recreation Center on campus.

A student-led waste reduction initiative at Tulane University. We collect unwanted dorm items from students and sell them back at 50-90% off store prices. All proceeds go to local New Orleans environmental and social justice nonprofits.

Tulane Special Olympics works with Special Olympics Louisiana to provide year-round sports and Unified sports leagues. Come out and work with intellectually disabled athletes to teach the value of sports and sportsmanship. No athletic experience required -- just a positive attitude!

Dance Marathon is a national movement of students passionate about service that organizes in an effort to support Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, raising money that is used to fund local Children’s Hospitals’ needs and operations. TUDM supports Children’s Hospital New Orleans, which is right down the street from our uptown campus. This is done through year-long programming, which culminates in our 8 hour Main Event.

ACEing Autism is on a mission for children with autism to grow, develop and benefit from social connections and fitness through affordable tennis programming, uniquely serving individual needs while filling a national void for this growing and worthy population. 

The Culinary Medicine Initiative aims to provide a community interested in exploring the links between food and health. Monthly meetings range from volunteering at the Goldring Center for Medicine to gathering and cooking a shared meal together. 

Gift of Life is the campus branch of the national Gift of Life Marrow Registry, running swab drives, fundraisers, and community events to help find bone marrow donors for people with leukemia, lymphoma, and other blood cancers.

NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. NAMI advocates for access to services, treatment, supports and research and is steadfast in its commitment to raising awareness and building a community of hope for all those in need.

NAMI on Campus clubs are student-led clubs that tackle mental health issues on campus by raising mental health awareness, educating the campus community, supporting students, promoting services and supports and advocating.

Strong City NOLA is the Tulane chapter of Strong City, a 501(c)(3). Strong City NOLA utilizes the Tulane community to support partner organizations such as The Youth Empowerment Project (YEP). We serve the community through our three pillars: project-based giving, gun violence prevention research, and a citizen network. Check out www.mystrongcity.org.

The Research Ambassadors is an organization that currently maintains and assists in creating listings for shadowing and research opportunities for the Tulane University Research Network in order to promote research and shadowing opportunities for the Tulane University undergraduate population.

Tulane University hosts an annual Earth Day Festival designed to promote environmental awareness and sustainable practices, featuring live music, free food, crafts, educational exhibits, and sustainability-focused community partners.

Tulane Cardiovascular Association seeks to provide help in any way, shape, or form to those who suffer from the number one cause of death worldwide.

Tulane University Service-Dog Training and Education Program raises assistance dogs for Canine Companions for Independence for 18 months, which includes teaching basic commands and socialization. Furthermore, TUSTEP strives to provide education about disability etiquette, ADA, and service dog rights to the Tulane and New Orleans community.

ANT pairs Tulane students with a local K-8 students to help with their homework, reading, etc. Tutors have the opportunity to work with the same student each week in order to build a relationship as a tutor, mentor, and friend! Work to improve grades and teach long-term study skills and goal-setting. Be a mentor/role model and help them see college in their future!

Food Recovery Network is a national organization focused on reducing food waste on college campuses. Every week night we go into the commons when the hot food stations are closing at 8 and package and record the remaining food. In the morning our community partners at New Orleans Mission come to pick up the food which ends up feeding about 1/3 of their shelter!

Founded in 1988, the Tulane Green Club remains a leading environmental organization not only at Tulane but also throughout the New Orleans community. The club continually strives to "green" the Green Wave through our efforts to make our campus more sustainable. We also educate the Tulane and New Orleans community through speakers, panels, and on-campus events, and volunteers with local environmental organizations. Please join us during the 2020-21 school year as we green, educate, and serve Tulane and the greater New Orleans community.

Outreach Tulane is a campus‑wide day of service that has grown into a decades‑long tradition. It is the largest student‑run volunteer event at Tulane, with participants working at multiple project sites in the greater New Orleans area, bringing together around 1,000 volunteers to serve across New Orleans.

Students Against Food Insecruity's mission is to engage community-service-oriented students in conversations and activities focusing on combatting the prevalence of food insecurity both on Tulane's campus and in the greater New Orleans area. 

Tikkun Olam Makers (TOM) at Tulane is a global, human‑centered design initiative creating low‑cost, accessible solutions for people with disabilities, older adults, and underserved communities — with Tulane students already delivering tangible results like child‑size mobility trainers.

Tulane Science Olympiad is a student‑run nonprofit at Tulane University hosting an annual Science Olympiad invitational and STEM outreach programs to grow the number of Science Olympiad teams in Louisiana.

This club focuses on making our campus and earth cleaner and creating events to host cleanups both around campus and in New Orleans. This is also focused on having guest speakers to further educate us on the importance of keeping our world clean and more sustainable. We gather volunteers to help out and give back to our community.

TULAP is a legal aid program at Tulane University that provides free and low-cost legal services to members of the Tulane Community.