Are Mensans involved in community service?
American Mensa provides a number of outlets for you to help in your community. The Mensa Education and Research Foundation sponsors scholarships, participates in research, rewards excellence in gifted research and publishes the Mensa Research Journal. Our Gifted Children Resource Program provides information on gifted children and gifted children resources to inquiring parents, teachers and schools. Project Inkslinger® started when the Mississippi and its tributaries flooded parts of the Midwest and South. Several schools and libraries lost their entire collections to water damage. American Mensans helped replace these books and continue to help libraries and schools in need and continue similar efforts today. Project Literacy provides funding to groups working toward literacy in local communities. Also, our Local Groups volunteer for community-oriented activities near them, including public television pledge drives and scholarship fund-raisers, and annually receive awards for their in
