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::Orchard House is located at 2807 Orchard
Ave, just north of the USC University Park
Campus. It is a residence for up to seven
students, and the occasional faculty member, staff
member, or visiting scholar. Orchard House
aims to be an “intentional community” of people
from differing backgrounds of both sexes who are
interested in one another, are willing to share
their traditions with one another, set goals for
the house together, and learn to care about one
another. There are six bedrooms upstairs; four singles,
two doubles. The house has a large kitchen, dining
room, laundry room, living room, and front and
backyards to be shared by all the residents.
In recent years, a variety of activities have been
shared by residents of Orchard House, including
walking tours of downtown LA and the neighborhood,
a van tour of Los Angeles, presentations and
discussions on neighborhood issues, and movies and
videos on Los Angeles topics. Since 2003,
residents have made commitments to serving the
local community by volunteering a minimum of
twenty hours per semester to A Community Place
(ACP), a small social service agency located at
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church just west of the USC
University Park Campus, about six blocks from
Orchard House. ACP, which is open a few hours
a week, provides sack lunches, bus tokens, and
taxi vouchers, along with appropriate referrals to
other agencies to seniors, the working poor, some
middle and high school students, and some homeless
people.
Orchard House
residents have served ACP in various ways
including the following: helping on-site at ACP
to talk with and serve some needs of neighborhood
residents; packing sack lunches for ACP clients;
managing a small parking lot on football Saturdays
(a fund raiser to support the ACP program);
helping with Web site development; and recruiting
and supervising other ACP volunteers.
One Orchard House
resident, who serves as on-site manager, is
responsible for paying bills, collecting rent,
calling repairpersons, helping to create the
“Orchard Community,” and other duties. Orchard
House and A Community Place are
projects of United Ministry at USC, which is
located at URC 103 on campus. Phone:
213-740-2667. Applications for residency are
accepted during the spring semester of each year
for the following academic year.
This is where
Orchard House is on the Map.
If you have more questions about Orchard House,
please call (213) 740-2667, email umin@usc.edu, or
stop by the office in URC 103. Check out our
apply page to check for any
vacancies::
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