Award for High School Seniors Involved in Community Service

Posted by on February 13, 2004

Nominations Invited for Yoshiyama Award for High School Seniors Involved in Community Service
Deadline: April 1, 2004

A program of the Hitachi Foundation (<a href="http://www.hitachi.org/">http://www.hitachi.org/</a>), the Yoshiyama Award annually honors up to twelve high school seniors from around the country for their community-service activities.

The award is accompanied by a gift of $5,000, dispensed over two years. Recipients may use the award at their discretion. The award is not a scholarship. Recipients are invited to participate in a special award ceremony in Washington, D.C., and a retreat with other awardees — activities designed to allow recipients to exchange ideas and strategies, develop a network, and increase their leadership skills and knowledge of effective social change.

High school seniors from the U.S. and its territories are eligible to be nominated. Award selection is based on the significance and extent of the nominee’s service to the community, and not on grade point averages, SAT scores, or school club memberships. Nominees need not be college bound.

Students must be nominated for the award. The foundation accepts nominations on annual basis from people directly familiar with the nominee’s service, such as community leaders, service providers, teachers, school principals, and/or members of the clergy.

Nominators are encouraged to keep the nominations confidential. Self- and parental nominations are automatically disqualified.

See the Hitachi Foundation Web site for complete program guidelines.

RFP Link: <a href="http://www.hitachi.org/yoshiyama/index.html">http://www.hitachi.org/yoshiyama/index.html</a>

For additional RFPs in Community Improvement/Development, visit: <a href="http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_community.jhtml">http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_community.jhtml</a>