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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2008 Award Recipients
- Caitlin Cohen—Caitlin will launch Radio Bamako: An Bee Ta Don, to produce a series of radio programs which will give voice to the problems that Mali’s slum residents face and encourage Malians to seek concrete solutions to reduce the friction between the government and slum residents, promote civic engagement, and exercise their rights.
- Rishi Mediratta—Rishi will launch a community-based health care program through the Ethiopian Orphan Health Foundation to educate caregivers of orphans in Gondar, Ethiopia to reduce the suffering caused by childhood illnesses.
- Kelly Quinn—Kelly will create and implement an English language curriculum, complete with textbooks and other teaching material, to benefit the orphaned children living at Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos, in the Dominican Republic.
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