Prudential Spirit of Community Awards

Posted by on September 10, 2004

[posted from RFP Bulletin]

Applications Invited for Prudential Spirit of Community Awards
Deadline: October 29, 2004

Created in 1995 by Prudential Financial, Inc. in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals (<a href="http://www.nassp.org/">http://www.nassp.org/</a>), the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards are designed to honor middle and high school students for outstanding volunteer service to their communities. Over the past nine years, the program has honored more than 55,000 young volunteers at the local, state, and national level.

To be eligible for the program, a student must be in fifth grade or above, in any state, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico as of October 29, 2004; have engaged in a volunteer activity that occurred at least in part after September 1, 2003; and complete an application and submit it to a school principal or the head of an officially designated local organization by October 29, 2004. The officially designated local organizations are a Girl Scout council, county 4-H organization, Camp Fire USA council, YMCA, American Red Cross chapter, or member Volunteer Center of the Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network.

Each participating school/organization will collect applications from interested students/members by the October 29, 2004, deadline, and will then select local honorees to compete in the state-level awards program.

Local honorees receive certificates of achievement from their schools or organizations. State honorees receive a $1,000 award, an engraved silver medallion, and an all-expenses-paid trip with a parent to Washington, D.C., in May for several days of recognition events. Ten national honorees will receive an additional $5,000 award, an engraved gold medallion, and crystal trophies for their schools or organizations. They also will have $25,000 worth of children’s products donated in each of their names to needy children in their communities by Kids In Distressed Situations, Inc.

Complete program information and application instructions are available at the program’s Web site.

RFP Link: <a href="http://prudential.com/spirit">http://prudential.com/spirit</a>

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