Youth Community Service Awards

Posted by on February 10, 2006

[posted from RFP Bulletin]

Hitachi Foundation Opens Youth Community Service Awards Nomination Process
Deadline: April 1, 2006

The Hitachi Foundation (<a href="http://www.hitachifoundation.org">http://www.hitachifoundation.org</a>) presents the Yoshiyama Award for Exemplary Service to the Community each year to ten high school seniors from around the United States on the basis of 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.)

Yoshiyama Award selection is based upon service and the opportunity for longer-term social change rather than on academic achievement or extracurricular activities. Grade-point averages, SAT scores, and school club memberships are not considered in the selection process.

To be eligible for the award, candidates must be graduating high school seniors in the U.S. or U.S. territories (nominees need not be college bound); individuals whose activities impacted a socially, economically, or culturally isolated area; nominated by someone familiar with their service (clergy, school official, teacher, service agency representative, etc.); individuals whose activities created longer-term, sustainable social change; individuals whose service has surpassed what is ordinarily expected of a socially responsible citizen; individuals who have demonstrated self-motivation, leadership, creativity, dedication, and commitment in pursuing their service; and individuals who have made a conscious effort to involve and inspire others to participate in community action.

Students must be nominated for the award. Self-nominations and nominations from family members are automatically disqualified.

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