Public Service Award
The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award provides a $10,000 stipend for a graduating college senior to pursue one year of public service anywhere in the world. The award allows recipients to engage in a meaningful public service activity for one year before proceeding on to graduate school or a career.
To apply, please develop a proposal for public service in this country or abroad. The proposal may encompass any activity that furthers the public good. It can be undertaken by yourself alone or by working through established charitable, religious, educational, governmental, or other public service organizations.
For more information, please review the
Samuel Huntington Fund FAQs (pdf).
To Apply
Please complete and mail in an
application form (pdf) by February 13, 2009. Your application should also include a one-page cover sheet, proposal, budget, transcript, resume, and three letters of recommendation.
Application Form
Awards will be based on the quality of your proposal, your academic record, and other personal achievements. Applicants will be notified by mid-April if they are to be interviewed or if they did not become finalists. Finalists will be personally interviewed prior to their selection for the award. The award will be granted soon after the interviews.
About the Award
The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award provides a $10,000 stipend for a one-year public service project: $5,000 is awarded at the beginning of the project; and the remaining $5,000 is awarded upon receipt of a six-month progress report.
Samuel Huntington was President and Chief Executive Officer of the New England Electric System which later merged with National Grid. He was deeply interested in public service. Following his graduation from college and before attending law school, Mr. Huntington taught in Nigeria. The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award was established by his friends to allow other students to realize similar experiences and to provide public service.
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2007 Award Recipients
- Elizabeth Sholtys—Elizabeth will expand the Ashraya Initiative for Children in Pune, India, which she opened in 2005 by creating a health education and resource center for street girls in the heart of the Kamraj Nagar slum in Yerwada, Pune. The center will serve as the location for health workshops, speakers, visits from clinicians, tuberculosis treatment administration, and other health educational services and is designed to address the pervasive health issues that disproportionately affect these girls and their community.
- Paul Javid—Paul plans to continue his work with the Digital StudyHall project in India and Bangladesh. He will be working primarily in Lucknow, India where the project is headquartered with an urban private school called StudyHall. Paul also plans to bring this project to even needier parts of India and Bangladesh. Digital Study Hall uses a visual database of elementary and high school lessons delivered by outstanding teachers to educate needy students and to train teachers in rural and slum schools.
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