About the Challenge

President Obama has emphasized interfaith cooperation and community service as an important way to build understanding between different communities and contribute to the common good. As a result, the White House launched the President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge in 2010, an initiative inviting institutions of higher education to commit to a year of interfaith and community service programming on campus.

President's Challenge institutions mobilize their campuses to address one of the Kennedy Serve America Act service priorities while engaging the religious and nonreligious diversity in their communities. Over 350 campuses are involved.

Make Your Campus Better Together through the President's Challenge.

A holistic approach to modeling interfaith cooperation involves running parallel programs and initiatives. Better Together catalyzes the student body in interfaith action while the President's Challenge lends an administrative endorsement for and an institutional commitment to interfaith service. Strong interfaith work led by both students and institutional allies can permeate all layers of campus ecology. Click here to learn more.