The mission of Cornell Alternative Breaks Program is to promote service-learning through direct public service with communities to heighten social awareness, enhance personal growth, and advocate lifelong social action.
The student-run board facilitates service-learning trips during spring break. Beginning in the Fall semester students who have been accepted on a team attend 12 weekly team-building meeting to prepare for their trips. Specific topics include: urban poverty, hunger, inadequate housing, domestic violence, commercial sexual exploitation of youth, homelessness, educational reform, labor issues, HIV/AIDS, environmental damage, and LGBTQ youth homelessness