This sounds like a problem in your community: a large group of people every year trying, probably often failing, to find concrete ways to actually help out. Go

This sounds like a problem in your community: a large group of people every year trying, probably often failing, to find concrete ways to actually help out. Go out and interview folks running non-profits, research labs, churches, health clinics, legal clinics, schools, anyone else who fits into your colleges definition of "community around us". From those interviews, build a large list of project-sized problem/solution statments for future groups of students. Include skills needed, points of contact, possible adoption challenges, etc. Validate those project descriptions with the people you interview. Identifying and describing problems that need to be solved and what it means to solve them is something lots of people build careers around