Community College of Vermont has a long-standing commitment to partnerships with community agencies, non-profit organizations and businesses. Through the work of the College s Service Learning Task Force, the impact of these community partnerships has been defined and focused. Our efforts to engage students, instructors and staff in exploring civic responsibility are taking on new dimensions both in and outside the classroom. As an example, The Community College of Vermont received a “”2000 Governor s Award for Outstanding Volunteer Community Service”" for its Harvest for Hunger program. The fall 1999 Harvest for Hunger Campaign was designed to focus attention on hunger in local communities. The campaign brought home the problem of hunger as CCV students and instructors engaged in discussions, heard from local community members and organizations, and designed ways to reach out to the hungry in their local towns. Instructors embedded service learning components around hunger in courses ranging from nutrition to marketing. Students, instructors and staff of all 12 CCV sites and the central office collected over 500 pounds of food statewide for local area food shelves and raised a total of $1,800 in donations.