IMPACT National Conference

February 21 – 24, 2013. Hosted by the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- Meet with hundreds of other student leaders, administrators, faculty, AmeriCorps members, and nonprofit leaders from across the nation
- Exchange ideas and best practices
- Get reinspired and recharged
- Gain insights to make your efforts more effective
- Learn about resources and opportunities.
This event, hosted by the University of New Mexico, is historically the largest annual conference focused on the civic engagement of college students in community service, service-learning, community-based research, advocacy and other forms of social action. The event was founded in 1984 by the Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL), one of the first national organizations to promote and support college student involvement.
Through this Conference, hundreds of students, administrators, faculty, AmeriCorps members, and nonprofit leaders from across the nation have the opportunity to meet and get together to learn and share effective practices, improve personal skills and organizational strategies, discover opportunities and resources, exchange stories, and be inspired and challenged to sustain the proposed efforts.
The IMPACT Conference is historically the largest annual conference focused on the civic engagement of college students in community service, service-learning, community-based research, advocacy and other forms of social action. Building on the rich 28-year tradition of the COOL Conference and the Idealist Campus Conference, IMPACT is the one time during the year when students, administrators, faculty, AmeriCorps members and VISTAs, and nonprofit professionals gather together to learn and share effective practices, improve personal skills and organizational strategies, discover opportunities and resources, exchange stories, be inspired and challenged to sustain our efforts.