We wish to expose students to different organizations and causes, as well as to different ways in which they can contribute. We work to develop partnerships that will enable students to form relationships with the individuals with whom they are working. We strive to develop the habit of service in as many students as possible by offering a wide variety of service opportunities.
- Art with a Heart: Students work on or prepare materials for projects such as murals and mosaics.
- Candygrams: Students sell Candygrams in all divisions of the School for Valentine's Day and thoughtfully consider where to donate the proceeds from these sales. This year we will be able to donate over $1,000 to the Northern Kenya Fund which provides secondary school and college tuition for promising students, with a focus on young women.
- Celebration of Thanks and Giving: We hold a school-wide Celebration of Thanks and Giving just prior to Thanksgiving each year. Part of the celebration includes a food drive to help stock the shelves of the Donald Bentley Food Pantry.
- Civicworks: Students participated in the Civicworks Day of Service.
- Empty Bowls: Students paint bowls to donate to St. Vincent de Paul’s Empty Bowls event to support area soup kitchens.
- GFS Daycare: Students assist with the care of faculty members' children in the Garrison Forest daycare.
- G.R.E.E.N.: The students educate the community about issues affecting our environment and coordinate recycling and conservation efforts on and off campus.
- Habitat for Humanity – Faculty Project: The Garrison Forest faculty has been sponsoring and working on a Habitat House each year since 2005.
- Homework Helpers: Upper School students assist younger GFS students with their assignments.
- Humane Society: Students will make stimulating toys for the animals and help to keep their play space safe. Girls also volunteered at Dogfest, their major fundraiser.
- Jhpiego: Fundraising and awareness activities to support world-wide women's reproductive health
- My Sister's Place Women's Center: Girls help serve lunch at My Sister's Place, a day shelter for women and children in Baltimore, once a month.
- Our Daily Bread: Girls make sandwiches for Our Daily Bread Soup Kitchen and volunteer to serve meals at ODB throughout the year.
- Red Cross Blood Drive: Students raise awareness about the pressing need for blood donations and organize a school-wide blood drive each February as close to Valentine's Day as possible.
- Sarah’s Hope: Students provide festive monthly birthday parties for the children at this Reisterstown homeless shelter.
- The Samaritan Women: Students work in the vegetable garden at this facility for women who have been trafficked and are now being prepared to entered culinary careers.
